Best Self Reproach Poems

An offensive mirror
produces my face,
and ears listen to a
hackneyed heart beat

The stench of stagnant 
breath confirms my 
identity and smoker’s 
status. Sixty a day

The cold...

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Last winter's resolution gone by spring
So I never did the bikini thing

  The same five pounds
  Still hanging around

I sigh and stare at...

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 Continued from Part 1 

The forgery of Multitudes between the Silhouettes
(and discarded cigarettes,
neath the haunted parapets)
mock my lonely echoed steps
    ...

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Two faithful souls stand listless in the great big tower 
overlooking the stranded city that once stood tall
yearning for a quiet place to lay their...

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A Vow

Can you keep your head up while others put themselves down?
Since, you must raise when there is no loss of true pride.
Learn to choose...

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A Vow

Can you keep your head up while others put themselves down?
Since, you must raise when there is no loss of true pride.
Learn to choose...

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Feeling the saltiness of his sweat
Mingling with her broken flesh to torment her,
Tears of humiliation, tears of anger,
Of bitterness,Self reproach and tears of revenge ran...

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A Vow

Can you keep your head up while others put themselves down?
Since, you must raise when there is no loss of true pride.
Learn to choose...

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just as inter-stellar objects shine brightest 
at the event horizon of a black hole
so a person's spirit flares 
shortly before his passing

searching for Mother’s number...

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~~Redemption~~

Set me free
From the haunting memories
Set me free
From the taunting thoughts
Set me free 
From the recurring nightmares

Humiliated, beat-up, pelted 
Learning the art of self-reproach
They say...

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Another year will end with cheer
one more shall soon arrive, no fear
But how they make such a fine din
as one falls out and t’other in...

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We have a great deal of sadness
Pent-up inside our fragile selves
Bordering at times on madness-
unhealthy in and of itself.
You’d think we’d learn to deal with...

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Shards of oblivion
Life in a dice
Annoying nudges
Approaching self reproach

Bent on levity
Head on a plate
Empurpling serenity
Instigating the triumph

Sigh for a sigh
A poke in the rib
Brows and...

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At times we should not be afraid
to roundly call a spade a spade.
I shrink not from a reference
to a fearful pestilence.
From Leo the king to...

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Occasionally in the eyes of a student 
I see the ghostly look of a much younger me
Those troubled and painful looks of despair and hurt

The...

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