Short Shameful Poems

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Extend Not a Hand of Need

Better be content with your own little
Than extend a shameful hand of need
Never ever should you belittle 
Your lofty soul and submit to greed
Form: Rhyme


Shameful Neglect and Ignorance

Sheer stupidity,
          human neglect...
          Wash car on the sidewalk
          and with water hose,
          a complete waste... !
Form: Senryu

Premium Member A Child's Home Address

Address 		
Some numbers
Feelings involved
To some means a lot
Prestigious or shameful
Some children soon learn
Others do not
Innocent
Address
Form: Ninette

Premium Member Hiding Trian Rannaigechta Moire

Hiding so sly 
shameful shamrock;
Looking is strange? 
I take no stock;

Beyond the flock
a brand new friend;
They suit me fine,
luck can be found.
Form: Other

Premium Member Tunnel Vision

shake off the blinders
shatter your shameful shackles 
shape your destiny
i see dreams thirst for freedom
and a soul plead for release



AP: 3rd place 2021
Form: Tanka


Premium Member Lessons Learned

Wrong is shameful in both the old and wise,
Take it from one who's lived long enough to know.
Life is a stormy sea of wicked woe,
And tears are no less wet from older eyes.
Form: Rhyme

Complete Renewal of Life

A man who does not indulge in sin 
stays away from bad companion. 
He avoids wicked pleasures 
and other evil thoughts. 
He does not conform 
to the shameful 
ways of men 
of this 
world.
Form: Nonet

Philosopher's Eucharist

Down, down to the Earth, 
hide your shameful face. 
What is a man without grace? 
But an Animal 
insane and base. 
Fight your inner demons
with your mind. 
Free yourself to fly
Up, up to the sky.
Form:

A Shameful Stress

I'm completely  well acceptedi 
          and  seen and  well expressed
          when for the world i dress
          but being an obnoxiously stress
          when in public nude, i'm not expected
Form: Limerick

It Will Not Be Shameful

Joseph as a man of principle
thought Mary to be pregnant a scandal.
     “Fear not!” said the angel,
     “It will not be shameful
for the Spirit has conceived Emmanuel.”

Matthew 1.18-23
Form: Limerick

Typical Wednesday

She sits there, knitting
It’s the same deal with worker bees
A continuous addition, to completion
Shameful, that I keep tugging this loose thread
She's knitting for nothing
I think she knows too
Stubborn woman

Premium Member Would I Love You Less If

Robbing Sobbing Dragging Nagging Arthritis, robbing, sobbing came With its shameful dragging, nagging game
Written: Saturday, January 22, 2021 Contest: Bite Sized Poems # 33 Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Form: Tyburn

Premium Member You Won't Get This with Ken Burns

A Mount Vernon daddy long-legs
was pregnant with ten thousand eggs.
You might call what she did a shameful deed
with a Monticello centipede, 
and yet...not long after Valley Forge,
that monstrous army defeated a proud King George.
Form: Rhyme

Ovation

I have lived this life in misery but this must be my fate,
for I have been selfish and I have been unkind. 
That is my flaw,
I believe I deserve goodness because I have suffered.
How shameful of me to think pain deserves an ovation.

Premium Member In Angry Protest

Self-mutilation a crushing despair
Helpless rage, no solace anywhere

Inner directed emotional surge
Urgent outlet, implosive urge

With self-awareness to your own self be true
Project not unto others what's shameful in you
© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Reaching

You humble me, undoubtedly, 

Unraveling my sweater at the seam,

Denying my flesh its covering,

Exposing my shameful nakedness,

Every unexpressed weakness.

You tear even deeper,

Lacerating my skin,

Reaching for my soul to let You in.
Form: Rhyme

Nosferatu's Heir

Dying light in West
     Sunset of revelation
          Leather wings transmute
Shameful legacy refused
     Better hungry than blood drunk

5/25/16
© by Author
For Contest: Traditional Tanka
Sponsor: Charlotte Jade Puddifoot
Form: Tanka

Scream

Do you hear?
Can you tell?
How I hurt so much

Hiding away
Shameful and guilty
Longing for that touch

Forgotten to most
Invisible to many
And unnoticed I might seem

As I lie on my bed
Fighting the tears
Lost in my silent scream
© Jessica K  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Nostalgic Feeling

Putting in writing
Listening to others  
Listening to myself
Leaning on my feet
A chair, rose in a vase 
A bird singing outside the window
It hurts so much that 
I want to pass out for a few days
It's shameful. It's scary. It's furious.

Desperate Howl

Arbituary, i walk the fine line
Non-habituary, isn't mine to define
I plead guilty of the filth
Feeling filthy of the guilt

I am the wolf that turns his back
Too shameful to be part of the pack
I howl when you bite
Whining "foul and unright"
Form: Rhyme

Blinded By Materialism

Those with piggish hearts I'd berate
for desiring each worldly prize.
Avarice is a shameful trait.
Materialism blinds their eyes.


June 23, 2022
Greed Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Margarita Lillico
Syllable count checked with howmanysyllables.com
Form: Quatrain

Red and Gray

Skipping down the walk on a sunless, foggy day;
a bright red coat surrounded in shades if gray.

In a smoldering mass grave, on a sad and shameful day;
a swatch if bright red coat, surrounded in ashes if gray.




Inspired by Schindler's List
Form: Verse

Premium Member Guilty Secret

I have a shameful secret to tell I never really learnt how to spell Tho’ try as I might It seldom comes right But my checker, SHE does very well
Contest: Challenge—Max 8 Lines Sponsor: Russell Sivey Margaret Foster Oct 10th 2011
Form: Limerick

Premium Member All Truth Be Known

Remember you're all alone
If all is told and truth be known
All see you trip before the throne
Remember you're all alone
Shameful slide as all hope is blown
Your ego sliced, cut to the bone
Remember you're all alone
If all is told and truth be known
© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Triolet

Premium Member A Measure of Worth

You needn't feel guilty or grateful.
You are such a beautiful although hurt soul.

You needn't feel hateful or shameful.
You're not alone in feeling so unfulfilled.

You needn't be anything else but yourself.
Always know you are so much unlike anyone else.

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