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Best Shameful Poems

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Premium Member 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: shameful, betrayal, change, conflict, daughter,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Shattering Rose Glasses
Uncomplicated me
I thought I was coloured blind
free thinking and kind
with an evolved mind
Loving and accepting 
of the ones I find

Yet my blindness 
Is that of...

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Categories: shameful, education, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shattering Rose Coloured Glasses
Uncomplicated me
I thought I was colour blind
free thinking and kind
with an evolved mind
Loving and accepting 
of the ones I find

Yet my blindness 
Is that of...

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Categories: shameful, betrayal, black african american,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Inebriant Melodies
Daylight is greeted with the horrific stench of food chunks 
swimming in stomach acid, dribbling onto bed sheets.
Accompanied with the embarrassment of
brown syrup puddle stains.

Head...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shameful, addiction, angst, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Keep Your Hand On My Shoulder
Let me not say hurtful things,
Or shameful actions do.
Let my words not sow deceit,
And thus bring shame to You.

Let my words bring only peace,
And my...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shameful, prayer,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Heinrich Heine Revisited
I can clearly sense your utter despair of Der Matratzengruft*
As you valiantly carried on your poetic works to the very end.
This did not change your...

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Categories: shameful, history, international, philosophy, poems,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Ballymurphy Massacre
Martin Luther King junior was the inspiration
For the Northern Ireland, Civil Rights association
Protests were held and they marched peacefully
The unionist majority tried to stop them...

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Categories: shameful, ireland, murder, soldier,
Form: Narrative
The Despair of In-Between
How I am torn from even thinking we could be more
What reason do I have to change what we already are?
I make an effort to...

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Categories: shameful, beautiful, confusion, crazy, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Shame
IN SHAME

When I was a little girl father brutally beat me down with such severity, and humiliation, causing me to hang my head down low...

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Categories: shameful, abuse, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
My Life's Rollercoaster
Sunny storms drench away the sorrow I feel inside
Rainstorms and thunderstorms make life a rowdy ride
The clouds above are dancing merrily and I look up...

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Categories: shameful, beauty, courage, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
We Were Young Once Upon a Time
We spent time with each other time after time
Now, we're older now...looking AT THE TIME FLY...
We were young and happy that splendid time
But, we have...

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Categories: shameful, adventure, best friend, deep,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Dante's Divina Commedia Translation
The difficult translation of first Canto of Divina Commedia is here completed
In the part published before, Dante imagined to find himself in a dark forest...

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Categories: shameful, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member A World On Fire
We live today in a world of great tumult
And of rising uncertainty and anxiety 
Which pervade the world stage like a cancer

Despite soaring technological advances
Our...

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Categories: shameful, allegory, change, earth, history,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Reporting Live Across the World
Reporting live on the soup, with Americas MOST. WANTED. POETS.
 Standing here with our host John, 
With an exclusive update on criminal poets, captured and...

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Categories: shameful, dedication, friendship, funny, sweet,
Form: Narrative
Far Away - a Collaboration With Olive
Shadowed silence vibrates melancholy
As the darkening clouds spiral overhead 
Open spaces, breathing air of mystery
bloody ink of terror break in...doused in dread 
Shattering the portrait...

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Categories: shameful, beauty, betrayal, change, deep,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things