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Self Disgust Poems - Poems about Self Disgust

the trayer

...The tryer


 in short bursts, the quiet expresses 
a need to communicate about work
done but not published

Self-critical, raked with doubts 
with no connection to the world
of publishing 
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Categories: self disgust, absence, age, art,
Form: ABC

Premium Memberdetox

...self disgust 
and disappointment
for the slip-up
but I need to know
what cheapens intimacy
devaluing myself
devalues anyone 
with whom I 
would share something 
valuable
it's why 
I'm deto...
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Categories: self disgust, emotions,
Form: Free verse



The Dread

...The dread

He had slept too long hours lost
in a dream of deep dissatisfaction down a well of evil failure.
The depth had a silt of regrets and self- disgust.
Getting back up was slow progress
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Categories: self disgust, anti bullying, corruption, heartbroken,
Form: Blank verse

The World Is Weeping

...The world is weeping, can you hear it? 

For the first child whose innocence we stole, for the first tree we cut, for the first soul we omitted..the earth wept......faint.....distant...unimportant
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Categories: self disgust, analogy, deep, earth,
Form: Free verse

The Failure

...The Failure
When I was bored with sea life
and walked ashore in Santiago
I could find no work except in house of ill repute
throwing out the rebellious and for some reason
became a father confes...
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Categories: self disgust, character, chocolate, cinderella, color,
Form: Blank verse



Premium MemberThe Undertow

...The Undertow


The two could feel the undertow
Pull at them both - then let them go
He wondered if she could know
Or sense it too and let it flow

The undertow in the fast-running tide
Ebbed...
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Categories: self disgust, anxiety, conflict, confusion, desire,
Form: Verse

Flamenco Song

...I wasn't ready for it when it hit. 
Pathetic, self-absorbed, wallowing in grief, 
plaiting the threads of self-disgust and wit, 
I toyed with tragic sonnets for relief. 

The night was hot. The ...
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Categories: self disgust, music,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberSelf-Disgust

...I know I've let my body go and grow so spare me of your incantations,
The slither betwixt your pretty lips saying thoughts of thy own fascination.

Sinew may seep from neath thy skin,
And beauty ...
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Categories: self disgust, depression, love,
Form: Rhyme

The Longest Sleep

...The Long Sleep
I had been sleeping too long hours lost
in a dream of deep dissatisfaction down a well
lined with failures
Its depth had silt of regrets and self- disgust
getting back up was a sl...
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Categories: self disgust, clothes, color, confidence, conflict,
Form: Blank verse

Black Magic Swindles

...Here in Bolehland, one video clip is making its viral round...
A staged episode of how talking to strangers can be far from sound...

The power of black magic via touch or suggestion...
Must be s...
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Categories: self disgust, community, education, future, people,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRape - trigger warning

...October: 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 ...
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Categories: self disgust, abuse, violence,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy Fuse Explodes

...Three neighbors litter on our street
buzzing along as I stroll past their gates;
and they jiggle like vicious wasps
while a silent howl drills on my head.
Yeah…all that drama, women of farce,
gr...
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Categories: self disgust, anger, spoken word,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Scumbag

...I'm covered in dirt
that i can't scrub off
no matter how hard i try

A film of pure filth
of self disgust
still see that look in your eye

You did that to me
 and you cant take it back
no m...
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Categories: self disgust, abuse,
Form: Rhyme

Marriage

...Marriage
is being stuck in the elevator with that hot flirty associate
Clive Christian lux on him invigorating your senses
inviting muscles clearly designed on the twill tight shirt
his butt narr...
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Categories: self disgust, courage, for him, marriage,
Form: Narrative

Apology

...I’m sorry I left so abruptly.
I knew it would end premature.
Wasn't strong enough you see.
Didn't really tell anybody.
Hidden from most
Exposed to few
Not even fully.
Masked by comedy.
The little thi...
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Categories: self disgust, suicide,
Form: I do not know?

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