Best Shame Poems
Below are the all-time best Shame poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of shame poems written by PoetrySoup members
Never Shame a WomanNever ever shame a woman
for the fire in her soul
still your fear that you're unable
to give that which makes her whole
Never ever shame a woman
for...
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Categories:
shame, passion, women,
Form:
Quatrain
A Long Loud Sighgenius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...
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Categories:
shame, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Rape - trigger warningOctober: I'm eighteen, shortcutting home
through an autumn-burnished churchyard -
copper-lustred leaves, moss-skinned stone -
a jaunty swing of skater skirt and arm,
college folder square-sturdy in my hand.
In...
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Categories:
shame, abuse, violence,
Form:
Free verse
CampfireCAMPFIRE
I thirst to taste your solid wood stare
I see you and no one else
Nestling under the stars
Hungry for each others ears
Chasing every comet across the...
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Categories:
shame, analogy, animal, earth, fire,
Form:
Free verse
A Vanilla DoveCypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...
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Categories:
shame, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
I Wore Your Skin~I wore your skin~
Brother, I wore your skin last night
Nothing but friction, blood -dry ink
Announcing a crush "Silence by the Sky!"
Integrity denied, endangered enemy
Brother, I...
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Categories:
shame, anger, bullying, dark, deep,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The EndThe End
Seeing through these cold dead eyes now,
This world looks much different.
The scars of one’s life entire,
Appear now for all to see.
What once meant everything,
Really...
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Categories:
shame, change, death, god, heaven,
Form:
Lyric
Amberina BallerinaA born lioness my untamed heart? ha!
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on...
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Categories:
shame, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
As Father Is To His DaughterPassing through framed windows like ours,
I recall your tales of reckless war and lost friends
that burned your innocence at 21... and though
you claimed flashes of...
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Categories:
shame, father, introspection, words,
Form:
Free verse
Yesterday Love Was Such An Easy Game To PlayYesterday,
I went home for lunch,
I never go home for lunch.
When I got to our apartment
I don't know why but I didn't reach for my key.
Francine...
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Categories:
shame, betrayal, break up, heartbroken,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Tears On Her Pillow - Continued From a Girl Named Sue
Tears for a Mother
Fears for a Father gone
Fate deals an unfair hand
The door to youthful joy closing
on adolescent shoulders imposing
grown up responsibilities instead
Eyes sadly deprived...
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Categories:
shame, fate, first love, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Suicide MasterpieceSuicide Masterpiece
Sweatdrop
On top
Trigger pop
Written note
All I got
Hang knot
Body rot
Suicide cop
I hope not
Cry out loud
I think not
Body's hot
I am too proud
I am loved a lot
Rooftop.
Suicide bride
Heavy...
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Categories:
shame, abuse, art, body, death,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
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:
shame, death, grief, how i
Form:
Narrative
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:
shame, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form:
Narrative
Bastard"All Children Are Beautiful"
His heart of white, deep shallow wells, -yet beautiful
He smirks with a grin, an ego that won't...
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Categories:
shame, art, beauty, betrayal, child,
Form:
Ballad