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Best Unapologetic Poems

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


Black and Unapologetic
I am not sorry for my brown skin , a magical mix of honey , gold , and the perfect hue of melanin 

 I...

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Categories: unapologetic, beauty, black african american,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Multicultural Britain - An Unapologetic Statement
Multicultural Britain
(An Unapologetic Statement)

Two “Festivals of Light” there are
Each and every year
The Jewish have their Hanukah
And Hindus their Diwali cheer

The end of Ramadan brings Eid...

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Categories: unapologetic, appreciation, celebration, christian, christmas,
Form: Verse
The Woman
See the woman.

See the face behind its age.
See the beauty of her form.
See the way her way becomes her.
See past her once taught skin, as...

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Categories: unapologetic, dedication, family, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Type, Cast
He crafted word ...
all plucked delicately
like the petals pulled for a vinok
precious and pink and pulpy
wove them, giv'n a similar grace
not for vanity, mind you...

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Categories: unapologetic, analogy, art, creation, introspection,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Smile of a Thousand Songs
A spirit is what it is,
sharing yet selfish, starving yet sated,
a humble sky that can erupt into a hurricane,
can be an avalanche on the mountain...

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Categories: unapologetic, love,
Form: Didactic



Chronicles of Life
I grew up in rows of houses ending in graveyards,
where six feet of dirt covered
the mound of my existence
and failure arched every single doorway.

Depression draped...

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Categories: unapologetic, introspection
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Meretricious Spirit
Meretricious Spirit

This spirit is modern society’s cancer
Replete with rank, flashy vulgarities
Pervading our social fabric and soul
Unbridled, unbowed, unapologetic;
It can be a curse to mankind itself
Engulfing...

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Categories: unapologetic, betrayal, emotions, feelings, hurt,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member You Get This When I Am Dead
You, my most favorite darling, get my grandfather clock said she.
When I am dead. Unapologetic, diabolical laugh.
You, sweetie pie, get my off-key piano stated easily.
To...

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Categories: unapologetic, death,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Let's Lead the Way
Over 200 years of oppression
Now days are we paying for our transgressions
Doing slavery we used our bravery
Breaking the chains doing the inhumane suffering and pain
While...

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Categories: unapologetic, black african american, history,
Form: Rhyme
To Kneel Or Not To Kneel
You watched it on TV 
And you might have wondered why
Colin knelt on that football field 
What was he attempting to try? 
The narrative of...

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Categories: unapologetic, black african american, courage,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Why You Hate Me
Never in my life
Would I have ever thought
The things I knew to be so right
Would be so wrong in your eyesight
Chastised by my own kind...

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Categories: unapologetic, anger, betrayal, black african
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Reason
Who told you to love me
and all my flaws?
Who asked you to
penetrate the thick skin
that confined my cries and
who informed you to
let me know it...

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Categories: unapologetic, appreciation, black african american,
Form: Free verse
An Apology To Your Loved Ones
An Apology to the people loved & lost (dedication)
just for closure.

I had a vision and I grabbed it
Sought after a long verge to succeed and...

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Categories: unapologetic, absence, appreciation, best friend,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
De Cipe Or Ops - Those Against the Truth
The truth of their own beholder. There is none in him in their golden deceit          ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unapologetic, allegory, dark, death, evil,
Form: Free verse
The Loner
Like a shadow within a shadow merging with the darkness of night, I am the shadow merger
Like the sense of invisibility that cloaks my corpse...

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Categories: unapologetic, solitude, , Lullaby,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs