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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.
A solitary figure
...In the dimly lit corners of her existence, She lingered, a ghost in the midst of persistence. From the womb, she was marked, a black sheep born, Destined to wander, forsaken and torn. In childh......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, dark, loneliness, lost, mental
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Divine magnetism
...Going Home His home, where He was from, Heaven, eternal, everlasting, everything good, comes from the heart who breathed hope, the spirit whose song was never ever wrong, it trembled with rhyt......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, appreciation, christian, faith, gospel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Mistress, the Moon
... From mine chamber, breathless and perspiring upon the bed, I spy you there, out my window, looming overhead. Your gaze, a silent arbiter in the night, I cloak my naked shame, to veil my plight......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, beautiful, dark, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Seeds of Sorrow
...Her eyes swelled and swelled With bitter tears That lingered near... She stood there and not here Since she thought It was better to cry, than to try to fly Into the fantasies ought To have he......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, abortion, birth, care, child,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Innocent
...Innocent Lighting travels through my core, like a diving hawk to prey. Unwittingly, I let a breathy moan escape. To the glory of the heavens, my eyes roll up then close. The better to feel an......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, christian, corruption, desire, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Shifting Relentless Time
...(FICTION, PLEASE. It is easy for me to write in the first person, but nearly all my poems are fiction. Please don't attribute this poem to me. I loved my wife to distraction. For ten years she......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, abuse, angst, betrayal, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Because He Lives
...When the past tears apart the courageous, leaving… Bloodstained bodies – trembling tears, silence, Nightmares, grief and no reassurance or relief, In the distance, so much disbelief, where......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vulnerability
... Oh, the beauty found in this tender race, When walls crumble, revealing its truest face, With all the wrinkles in its right place The raw, the fragile, and all the flaws we'll come to learn to l......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, appreciation, deep, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seven Uninvited Guests
...The gathered, outside my house, lingered long, As if it were Halloween night - A rogue's gallery of goblins and ghouls, They were an unwanted sight. Their faces had a strange semblance of masks......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, confidence, dark, halloween, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member With God I am victorious
...In you my God I trust I shall never suffer the shame of defeat My enemies shall never gloat over me Cause you are my shield and armour I shall never rebel against you Reveal more to me your way......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, absence, blessing, christian, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moments of Praise
... “One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God.” - author unknown. Stars reflect His amazing, His grace, His praises, Are forever on my lips, rising like the ......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forgiving the Unforgivable
...(Lights dim, single spotlight illuminates the speaker, dressed in simple attire. Voice starts trembling, building in intensity) Can forgiveness mend, a childhood, fractured in the dark? ......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, child abuse, father son,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member final account
...before life begins we accrue fictional sins so guilt always wins lest any deem themselves free to alter reality dollars and distance do not measure existence despite persistence constant de......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, culture, death, judgement, life,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO HEALS US
... April 27 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Kings 20-22 Key Verse – 2Kings 20:8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go ......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
They followed
...He led them, and they followed It was easy, lightly stepped Not yet hollow, full of depth A prophet with a promise not yet met Of eternity, of love and affection Yet something lies in his infl......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, religion, voice,
Form: Verse

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