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Shame Poems - Poems about Shame

Shame Poems - Examples of all types of poems about shame to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for shame.
Blanket of Shame
Woke up today and it all came rushing back, All the thoughts and pain and emotion, Crying on my way to work, I'm going to crack, Pounding me like the waves of the ocean. I am not okay, and...Read the rest...
Categories: shame, anger, angst, anxiety, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Future Self
Shame is a feeling I do avoid. Too often, something like it has me, destroyed, and yet, to be a better man, I must look at myself as best I can, and that may entail shame. I look at myself,...Read the rest...
Categories: shame, self,
Form: Rhyme



Stains of shame
"I entered the bus, full and crowded, Wearing a white kurta, pure and unblemished. But when I got off, it was stained red, Without consent, my dignity was shed. I walked to the store, trying to escape, But the red...Read the rest...
Categories: shame, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Crying In Shame
Natural I like the feel of rain, a mix of hope and pain. As the drops sting my face, I start slowing my pace. Nature understands me and my reality. Raindrops are not gentle tears but...Read the rest...
Categories: shame, angst, anxiety, betrayal, hurt,
Form: Alexandrine
Premium Member from the cradle to the shame
sadness leaves the source hits page, makes tracks, with force leaves behind a stillness that doesn't show unnoticed ache, where tears don't flow that looks like carrying on but pitter patter still beats within knocks on mind, loudest of quiet...Read the rest...
Categories: shame, pain,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Dirt Sins and Shame NAILED TO THE CROSS--WHERE I AM NOW FOUND NO LONGER LOST-
sometimes I feel filthy and dirty Yeah! I must remember I am embellished in His glory Yes even I even I a prodigal son product of The Son not solar Oh so that I am Elohim's My dirt...Read the rest...
Categories: shame, analogy, appreciation, blessing, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Ukraine our shame
Ukraine and our shame Now that Ukraine is pardoning prisoners  to join the army, except the violent murderers (one would think the violent were the right ones) it tells us of an army scraping the barrel of recruits, all eligible...Read the rest...
Categories: shame, adventure, allusion, anger,
Form: Blank verse
Shame full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration
Sham(e) full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration American independence day linkedin severance from English crown Continental Congress representatives parlayed courtesy thirteen original colonies yielding Declaration of Independence immediately rendered null and void established vassalage courtesy British rule. Fast forward two hundred and...Read the rest...
Categories: shame, adventure, america, betrayal, birth,
Form: Free verse
I Saw My Fate
I don't even want to talk about you Smother my heart in deep shame I don't want you around...Read the rest...
Categories: shame, anxiety, deep, depression, fate,
Form: Kimo
Strike Me Down
The peak of the spire left me wanting. I welcome it all no matter how haunting. Take in my Plagues. Taken by Plagues. Pathogens are airborne and live bloodborne. Vector-borne injected, infected, will forever remain undetected. Foodborne now room warm can wait...Read the rest...
Categories: shame, age, appreciation, beautiful, cancer,
Form: Free verse
Trust Me
"Trust me," he said, and gave me such an impish grin it melted my apprehensiveness. "I wouldn't lead you astray." And so I did, trust him, and let him lead me down the garden...Read the rest...
Categories: shame, desire, emotions, feelings, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Name, Dame, Shame
Even in the nude – Imogene Bertha Gertrude – Bad vibes today, dude ...Read the rest...
Categories: shame, age, identity, sad,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member The faint smile
Categories: shame, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Changing Face of Shame
So much has changed in the past 50 years or so one thing is the word shame once a friend now our foe Half a century ago it had a fear a true fear of God was felt among a generation...Read the rest...
Categories: shame, change, god, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Shame
At the bus Station I stood with a girl in my class. My bestfriend came towards me: ,,you also don't come to the Extra math lesson?" ,,you are there? " ,,what, adna what are you talking...Read the rest...
Categories: shame, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse

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