Short Guilt Poems

Short Guilt Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Guilt by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Guilt by length and keyword.


Guilt

"Tears running down the drain pretending its rain standing under a shower of shame burning up cause it’s hot and I am still ashamed."


Premium Member Painless Guilt

who was blessed with the gift
with a wap back bone of iron 
 the man that doesn't mind
a God given gift
 to his painless conscious

Premium Member The Fight

Anger – 
	Words are said
	Not always meant

Guilt – 
	Feeling sorry
	Flowers are sent

Love –
	All is well
	Once again content
Form: Rhyme

Guilt

Gloomy and empty
Unable to have inner peace
Insatiable feelings of forgiveness
Losing the trust of others
Trying to rid thyself of sin
Form: Acrostic

Guilt

Asking for forgiveness is liberating oneself from guilt

                                                                  - Teddy Kimathi
Form: Verse


Guilt and Guilty

You are disturbed less
But you have destroyed the much
Thus you make chaos
You say that you are guiltless
All the others have made this.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Reflective Guilt

Cold mirror frozen  

Knows sorrowful sinful past  

Wondering lost mind  

A red ruby fire shine bright  

Melting the reflective ice
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Pleading innocent

Why is it my fault?
Honest, I promise it really wasn't me.
I'm just an innocent bystander.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Form: Other

Guilt

Helpless a girl can do anything
She have the ability to do something
People may think, she always fine
No reason to think that she won't any guilt
Form: Quatern

Premium Member -Guilt

Guilt a powerful and greedy emotion

Rapidly spreads wanting more

Harmful to ones health and happiness

Forgiveness and acceptance

The only cure …..
© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Racing

• A warm liquid racing down my face • Staring at the ground like a fool • I guess I've really done it now • She seems to have lost her cool
© Salmon Oid  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Confessions of a Teacher-Poet Number 4

I confess I was surprised to make POTD
That may have been at the start
Of this year, rhymes with PLENTY, 20202
No poem, 'twas, encountering abortion, guilty heart
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Quatrain

Guilt

Do you think
words absolve the guilt
to no more
than a change of clothes
a shedding
of old skin?
A show of remorse
and when the last chance
is shot
ask
why me?

Premium Member Negative aura

Harsh tongue lashings and judgments.
Incurring demerit points with each unkind thought.
Guilt awaits at heaven's gate.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Form: Other

Premium Member Sum total

Unkind thoughts and deeds tallied
Demerit points implicitly accrued throughout a lifetime
Belated guilt at heaven’s gate



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Premium Member Absolutel-E Guilt-E Pleasures

I Once Warned Ai
That It's Very
Suggestive:

To Cl-Ai-m A
Pregnant Camel
Has Three 
Humps.

Humor Is 
Simple-E Magic.

-Gray Squirrel

07-23-2025

Premium Member Worry and Guilt Be Gone

Worry and guilt, be gone.
I push them away, leave them in mud puddles.
Not worried as they drowned a natural death.
They do not intrigue, captivate or hold my interest any more.

Fight My Guilt

I fight for my heart                                                                 The darkness and guilt encroach                                          For life, love, family.
Form: Haiku

2

The worst curse
of being human
is thinking too much.

Doubt is born,
then resentment,
then your own hatred.

Regretfully,
I’ve created
what I never wanted:
a pain of the soul.

Prove Guilt of Trump

Prove Guilt Of Trump

Prove guilt of Trump Senate did try;
Then on their approval we must rely,
And played part;
Search did start,
Trying to find all of the reasons why.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Guilt

Guilt 


Loving you  drive 
You crazy to find the 
 Alone time with the 
Guilt to see you in 
Sleep of  sailing ship 
in a Sea of green grass 


With love all 
Jagdish bajantri
Form: Couplet

Petty Theft

Petty Theft

Abandoned on a dark and dusty shelf,
a part of her forsaken self,
not forgotten, but a misbegotten
treasure of a stolen Christmas elf.

. for public domain and petty thieves

Guilt

God knows what I did was wrong.
Unacceptable was my treatment of you.
I want to apologize for making up an alibi.
Love is gone and I'm a fool.
Truth is the only thing that will repair shattered trust.
© Amy Frazey  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Guilt and Betrayal

Guilt And Betrayal


         "Guilt is the ultimate executioner__of those who betray the truth"







Penned: 1/12/2022
             5:30 p.m.
             Lake Worth
             Florida USA
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Their Names

how their names
haunt her

years gone by
how their names
haunt her

lifetime friends
she was meant to have
how their names
haunt her

had she not turned her back



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

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