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Best Stigma Poems

Below are the all-time best Stigma poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of stigma poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Woman In Chains
Woman in Chains
(What Man Would Abide It?)

Women throughout centuries – the softer sex.
I picture them subservient since what feels like time primordial!

What man would abide
being...

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Categories: stigma, freedom,
Form: Free verse



An Eternity Ii
And I begin my own steep climb into 
The Chalkland Downs              ...

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Categories: stigma, betrayal, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cardinal and Rose
Rose, in your redolent, roseate glow -
your firelight petals like hearth of home -
I alight with messages from beyond walls of night,
imparting hope over din...

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Categories: stigma, butterfly, rose, visionary, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lament Not
Lament not, oh worthy lama
This life is but a dream
Live in joy, free from fear stigma 
Things are not what they seem

Childlike, given to play
To...

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Categories: stigma, dream, life, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
The Color of Space
The Color of Space

His spaceship alit on a foreign world
deep in the midst of the outer space
two moons gazing down devoid of all air
he kept...

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Categories: stigma, racism, planet,
Form: Free verse



A Total Enigma
I can’t be branded and put into a box
I’m a rhyme wrapped within a riddle a complete paradox
I won't  carry the labels, or walk...

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Categories: stigma, introspection, riddle,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Century-Twenty Two
A future world rule by Trillionaires and Billionaires
Each country with segments of puppet regime governments,
With exceptions of course,
The drug lords the cartel those with the...

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Categories: stigma, social, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Life Is A Meme
like a selfie 
that wasn’t taken
I’m the guy in the street

I know 
you’re captioning me
from your side of the road

and the shops 
with their massive...

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Categories: stigma, anxiety, depression, introspection, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Trapped
My spirit and soul are trapped in this vessel of flesh. They scream to escape and to be liberated and soar on the breezes of...

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Categories: stigma, culture, discrimination, emotions, feelings,
Form: Bio
Elephant In the Room
Depression is killing more than ever, yet remains the largest elephant in the room
Mental health has a stigma attached to it
People are scared to get...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stigma, anxiety, deep, depression, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Enlightened By Anima
I bridged the chasm and entered ambiguous halls
Climbed over barbed fences inside my mind's walls
To glimpse the core of how men and women relate
Among flowering...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stigma, appreciation, gender,
Form: Rhyme
The Lost Summer
From June to September
I cannot remember
A damn thing that I did
What took me over
Was a monster called Bipolar
Which escaped from the shadows where it hid

And...

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Categories: stigma, addiction, allusion, analogy, mental
Form: Rhyme
Confession
This lapse shed showers of sorrows
Piercing my diamond heart with its arrows
And as it breaks within my grasp furrows
It paints little hells on my minds...

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Categories: stigma, adventure, best friend, body,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Lather, Rinse, Repeat
Alison weeps at the fake Senior Prom.
Alison creeps out onto the lawn.
Alison’s skin turns to purple from pink.
Alison’s flesh beginning to stink.

A stench too great...

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Categories: stigma,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Sun Shines On the Righteous - For Contest
There was a cloud hung over him
a presence, an impending doom.
He seemed one lightning strike away
from enlightenment - or entombment.
Haunted by the stigma of divine...

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Categories: stigma, abuse, innocence, religion,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs