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Dishonour Poems - Poems about Dishonour

Hereditary

...I try to suffice the unseen parts of me,
the ones I try so hard to hide,
to take apart,
and rip away the nature,
though it seeps deep in my dna,
and time through time the cycle restarts,
etchin...
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Categories: dishonour, 12th grade, abuse, angst,
Form: Free verse

DAVID : Sculpture : Michelangelo: Florence : 1501

...  “Sweet is my sleep, but more to be mere stone,
so long as ruin and dishonour reign ;
to bear nought, to feel nought, is my great gain ;
then wake me not, speak in an undertone !”
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Categories: dishonour, allusion, art, character, creation,
Form: Ekphrasis



An ode to our ancestors

...I am all the people who came before me And I am all the people who will come after me

This is an ode to all of our ancestors Just because we don't all share the same blood Does not not mean that w...
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Categories: dishonour, appreciation, color, race,
Form: Free verse

Imposter

...Lies. All lies
You are lying 
But do you also realise u are lying to urself
Who have you become
Where have you gone
And look how you are right now
You hang out with liars who normalise lying
T...
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Categories: dishonour, lonely, longing, men,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

For Them We Worked

...Forgive this battery; tilt up your chin. 
You're ready now. 
Still, absent. "Help! Help!"
Life running in. Futile.

Puckered breath on silent chest.
Crushing pain and animal calls.
"Please! Pl...
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Categories: dishonour, allusion, bereavement, death, grief,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberTime Flowing And Flowing

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      Time flows an river flows 
       ceaseless forever.
       Time doesn’t wait …
       Who can’t value
       is most unfortunate .

       Do it in Time
      Don't waste Time  sittin...
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Categories: dishonour, time,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAn Amicable Parting

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Our love was a mixture of dreams, 
joy and pain, they were not of equal 
parts.
Oh, but how they each tore the 
heartstrings apart,
Now, we are at the crossroads of 
parting ways,
So let’s a...
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Categories: dishonour, break up, destiny, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Flock of Startled Birds

...A Flock of Startled Birds

He had sat for an hour on a long, low, flat rock,
He had checked himself over from bald patch to sock.
His leather shoes burnished to a mirror-li...
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Categories: dishonour, depression, memorial, mental health,
Form: Rhyme

Goodnight

...When there's no ear when you speak
and you are made to be an oblivious bargain 
when trust sounds so far away
and friends become quite cliche
take care, rest well, goodnight.

When feeling burd...
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Categories: dishonour, encouraging, good night,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Premium MemberWhat To Consider

...Humani mendacity 
Foul water still and staining
A bowl full of silence

A firming maybe.? Assent?
No approbation.? No Dishonour
Validation yet; no walking  out..'

Hard heads no holds; denied...
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Categories: dishonour, analogy, dedication,
Form: Other

Premium MemberTail Trauma

...Tail Trauma

I’m a Cat (fancy that) and my tail went all droopy.
When I came in with it all bent, it sent my oomans loopy.
She started making phone calls, he put on shoes a...
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Categories: dishonour, animal, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

There Is No Personalism

...Definitive,
a dry phrase, dripping with meaning,
which dissolves
the pallour of revolution.
Incitement,
barking message,
cuts through discontent
with rotating blades,
it awards morals and sen...
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Categories: dishonour, extended metaphor, language, symbolism,
Form: Free verse

What You Did

...Not everyone survives challenging situations... But even if you do, the experience never leaves you. It's at best an extreme lesson in survival; whether emotional, physical, psychological, spiritual ...
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Categories: dishonour, abuse, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

Broken Home

...A broken Home is
Not only when parents got divorce
Nor when one parent died.
It is a broken Home 
When both parents are alive but there's no love.
When there's no unity,
Each has its own desire...
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Categories: dishonour, home, pain, parents,
Form: I do not know?

Where's the Love, Honorable Canker

...WHERE'S THE LOVE, HONORABLE CANKER:

Only 'cause men not ready to ponder,
They speak literally and rhetorically at a yonder,
Not regarding how to make this world better.
Do you realise there're ...
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Categories: dishonour, abuse, bullying, corruption,
Form: Lyric

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