Best Guilt Poems
Below are the all-time best Guilt poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of guilt poems written by PoetrySoup members
Survivors GuiltIt's been ten long years now since that awful tragedy
When a stranger I didn't know, gave his life to save me
I was on the edge...
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Categories:
guilt, death, grief, how i
Form:
Narrative
Your Judas Like Tan""Child's Play""
You go down like rain,
A wishing star in disguise,
You scream bloody murder
-the perfect two-face disgrace
Your lips forever stain and reside with Benedict...
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Categories:
guilt, betrayal, change, conflict, daughter,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Letting Go"Letting Go!"
Behind that garden rail
Where worms squirm and roam,
They dig into every bad part of my day
I feel them crawling, making my hide their home
They...
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Categories:
guilt, depression, emotions, hate, immigration,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Love In the Silence of the SoulAs a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls
I heard the words destined to me
“Be...
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Categories:
guilt, death, love, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
A Gift of LoveAround my mom, I always felt my guilt
My conscience seem to always take her side
Some years ago, I gave her a new quilt
I still recall...
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Categories:
guilt, love, mother,
Form:
Sonnet
Sometimes We Don'T Get a Chance To Say Goodbyesometimes
we don't get a chance
to say goodbye
you sit there
tears in your eyes
wondering why
and
it don't make sense
to be strong
because it stings
you can't explain
the pain each
memory brings
and
the...
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Categories:
guilt, death,
Form:
Rhyme
She Gathered Roses~
She gathered roses,
one at a time,
choosing carefully,
for you see, they were her healing
A light breeze tickled her hair
as a brief smile curved upon her soft...
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Categories:
guilt, flower, for her,
Form:
Free verse
I Long To Write a Poem - Just RightI long to write a poem just right
Between the somber and the light
To tease the edges of a heart
To hook the reader from the start
Seduce...
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Categories:
guilt, bullying, poems, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Gnarled ShadowsThrough shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare,
Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace...
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Categories:
guilt, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form:
Narrative
Road Crash of WordsUpon the doorstep of my paradise,
You’ll find h e l l i s h pansies and t a i n...
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Categories:
guilt, angst, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Please~PLEASE~
Please pick me up!
Never mind I'm gonna fall, anyways
Please show me how to tie my shoes and sing a song!
Don't worry mommy,...
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Categories:
guilt, absence, abuse, anger, cousin,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
August RainsThe steadily falling cold August rains
Continue to pour upon Cheshires lanes;
Over flattening fields of soddened wheat,
Soaking the grass, splashing the feet.
Stands the Combine in the...
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Categories:
guilt, august, nature, poetry, rain,
Form:
Rhyme
New World OrderThe Rulers wield their silver shields,
wear golden coronets
while warders guard the prison...
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Categories:
guilt, drug, society,
Form:
Rhyme
RestRest now
O restless heart
released in ebb to flow
ride the other side of the king tide rising
buoyant your movement in rise with the waves
Rise!...
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Categories:
guilt, death, freedom, heaven, journey,
Form:
Free verse
Forgive and ForgetI asked you what I have done wrong
But there is no response - just a stony silence
No words can convey my guilt, my inner sadness
This...
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Categories:
guilt, forgiveness,
Form:
Free verse