Poems About Shame by Top Critiquers
#shame
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
20th Apr 2024 12:01pm
20th Apr 2024 12:01pm
Affection Makes You Weak
She snickered in my face
I told her all the things that I felt and she laughed me right out the door
I can still hear her laughing at me
Even when I'm alone, I can hear her cackling like a witch
I want to get out
Get in my car at night and drive an endless road to somewhere but nowhere
Affection is a disease
Don't succumb to it, it will wipe you out!
It's for weak fools
I've moved on
I told her all the things that I felt and she laughed me right out the door
I can still hear her laughing at me
Even when I'm alone, I can hear her cackling like a witch
I want to get out
Get in my car at night and drive an endless road to somewhere but nowhere
Affection is a disease
Don't succumb to it, it will wipe you out!
It's for weak fools
I've moved on
#rejection
#relationships
#shame #ShortStory
#shame #ShortStory
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16 Comments
faithmairee
Poem Published
27th Mar 2024 7:33pm
27th Mar 2024 7:33pm
Perverts, Politicians and Pyromaniacs
Psychopaths and perverts
Linger in the shadows
Of the night stopping only
Long enough to up the ante
In the war against malcontents
And fading politicians who are
Serving up deep-fried linoleum
To the public
When they're not selling
Propane to the pyros
Spurred on by
The cosmic karma backlash
Where the weak are
being spoonfed their
Daily dose of scorn
Somewhere, in the shadows
The perverts easily commiserate
Beating on their pale chests
Shouting "The beasts,
They will not die."
...
Linger in the shadows
Of the night stopping only
Long enough to up the ante
In the war against malcontents
And fading politicians who are
Serving up deep-fried linoleum
To the public
When they're not selling
Propane to the pyros
Spurred on by
The cosmic karma backlash
Where the weak are
being spoonfed their
Daily dose of scorn
Somewhere, in the shadows
The perverts easily commiserate
Beating on their pale chests
Shouting "The beasts,
They will not die."
...
#narrative
#shame
#misunderstood
113 reads
13 Comments
crimsin
Unveiling
Unveiling
Poem Published
13th Jul 2018 6:03pm
13th Jul 2018 6:03pm
my demons named
angry thoughts rise to the surface
I stuff them down
into the darkness
still, they suffocate
as I hold back the gorge
that threatens to come forth
my anger is pain turned inward
it has so many faces
I had to name them
this one is deceit
the lies I tell myself to feel better
it doesn't matter
that your beauty is gone
the fuck it doesn't
this one is guilt
for the bitch I am
a liar, a cheater
scummy little slut
manipulating my situation
hoping no one finds out ...
I stuff them down
into the darkness
still, they suffocate
as I hold back the gorge
that threatens to come forth
my anger is pain turned inward
it has so many faces
I had to name them
this one is deceit
the lies I tell myself to feel better
it doesn't matter
that your beauty is gone
the fuck it doesn't
this one is guilt
for the bitch I am
a liar, a cheater
scummy little slut
manipulating my situation
hoping no one finds out ...
#regret
#dark
#shame #honesty
#shame #honesty
718 reads
26 Comments
nightbirdblue
enbyblue
enbyblue
Poem Published
4th Jan 2022 7:40pm
4th Jan 2022 7:40pm
speaking to [my shame]
you were
just a 3-year-old girl
when your world
inverted
converted
to a bad little girl
when you hurt
your friend
defendant to
your own judgments
no forgiveness
only self-loathing
developing
idiopathic
craniofacial
erythema
melting
off my face in
perspiration and
hesitation
made reservations
in my brain for
shame and then
overdosed
on fear
I am a failure
disappointment
fodder for the gutter
manifested
years...
just a 3-year-old girl
when your world
inverted
converted
to a bad little girl
when you hurt
your friend
defendant to
your own judgments
no forgiveness
only self-loathing
developing
idiopathic
craniofacial
erythema
melting
off my face in
perspiration and
hesitation
made reservations
in my brain for
shame and then
overdosed
on fear
I am a failure
disappointment
fodder for the gutter
manifested
years...
#forgiveness
#childhood
#identity
#shame
#SelfWorth
441 reads
6 Comments
WillowsWhimsies
Poem Published
18th Oct 2023 11:53pm
18th Oct 2023 11:53pm
self servitude
when people say an action or deed is so self-serving
it's always implied it's a negative thing
creates such conflict within me
as I think...
if I could apply the same understanding
equal forgiveness & compassion
...to myself...
...as I do so easily for others
look with loving eyes on my own infractions
perhaps there wouldn't be so much anxiety
such heavy self-loathing
to see me as I can see others
regardless of my failures...
...would it be so evil to be that self-serving
...just asking
it's so hard to think of...
it's always implied it's a negative thing
creates such conflict within me
as I think...
if I could apply the same understanding
equal forgiveness & compassion
...to myself...
...as I do so easily for others
look with loving eyes on my own infractions
perhaps there wouldn't be so much anxiety
such heavy self-loathing
to see me as I can see others
regardless of my failures...
...would it be so evil to be that self-serving
...just asking
it's so hard to think of...
#confessional
#shame
#confusion #emotions
#confusion #emotions
37 reads
8 Comments
wolfatthedoor1966
Poem Published
12th Jan 2024 9:43am
12th Jan 2024 9:43am
love hides
she paints on
her lipstick, makeup,
trying to conceal
her many years,
eyes looking around
that well known
smoky little bar,
crowded with
possibilities,
as she leaves with
her complete stranger
for the night, she
tries to fulfill her promise
to stop giving herself
away so easily.
her lipstick, makeup,
trying to conceal
her many years,
eyes looking around
that well known
smoky little bar,
crowded with
possibilities,
as she leaves with
her complete stranger
for the night, she
tries to fulfill her promise
to stop giving herself
away so easily.
#regret
#sex
#shame
#temptation
#seductive
192 reads
10 Comments
monovox128
Poem Published
20th Nov 2023 6:39pm
20th Nov 2023 6:39pm
ENOUGH
I may have a face that's ugly from scars of youth full of acne
my hair may be unkempt and in total disarry, but, at least its clean
body is scarred for life from self mutilation or surgeries unseen
never have I been considered ever pretty enough.
My cheeks may be ripe for pinching to tell me that I am just cute
hips full and round like my belly sometimes is unlike my ass
louder than life itself mouth and oversized bust, no substitute
never have I been considered to be slim enough.
I've been labeled as stupid and told
was immature and...
my hair may be unkempt and in total disarry, but, at least its clean
body is scarred for life from self mutilation or surgeries unseen
never have I been considered ever pretty enough.
My cheeks may be ripe for pinching to tell me that I am just cute
hips full and round like my belly sometimes is unlike my ass
louder than life itself mouth and oversized bust, no substitute
never have I been considered to be slim enough.
I've been labeled as stupid and told
was immature and...
#rejection
#forgiveness
#inspirational
#shame
#bittersweet
122 reads
10 Comments
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
9th Apr 2024 8:29pm
9th Apr 2024 8:29pm
Where's Daddy?
No lumpenproletariat allowed,
or even old fashioned non-combatants,
to survive the new killing fields plowed
by techno-feudal targeting patents
designed for destruction block by block,
instead of soldiers duel by duel,
until depleting its carpet bomb stock
or the bombers run out of noxious fuel.
Yet still the algorithm looks for him
until the mission is declared complete
when something like a special cryptonym
sends troops to search each mortuary street,
since daddy may have eluded the bomb...
which made kibble out of the...
or even old fashioned non-combatants,
to survive the new killing fields plowed
by techno-feudal targeting patents
designed for destruction block by block,
instead of soldiers duel by duel,
until depleting its carpet bomb stock
or the bombers run out of noxious fuel.
Yet still the algorithm looks for him
until the mission is declared complete
when something like a special cryptonym
sends troops to search each mortuary street,
since daddy may have eluded the bomb...
which made kibble out of the...
#heartbroken
#shame
#despair
215 reads
6 Comments
wallyroo92
Poem Published
11th Apr 2019 7:49pm
11th Apr 2019 7:49pm
Wolves in Cheap Clothing
When men claim to be the voice of the Most High
I tend to question authority,
(Remember Waco or Jonestown?)
Wolves in cheap clothing tend try to control the masses,
Yet many from different classes fall for their trickery,
Like sheep following blindly to the slaughter.
Some religions seem to have put a negative spin
On their founder’s teachings,
Making up senseless rules somewhere along the way,
They become corrupt like government officials or politicians,
Brainwashing those not strong enough to think for themselves.
Thou...
I tend to question authority,
(Remember Waco or Jonestown?)
Wolves in cheap clothing tend try to control the masses,
Yet many from different classes fall for their trickery,
Like sheep following blindly to the slaughter.
Some religions seem to have put a negative spin
On their founder’s teachings,
Making up senseless rules somewhere along the way,
They become corrupt like government officials or politicians,
Brainwashing those not strong enough to think for themselves.
Thou...
#shame
#frustration
#greed
#philosophical
#NaPoWriMo2019
558 reads
4 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
26th Sep 2018 12:04pm
26th Sep 2018 12:04pm
Sexual Assault
#sadness
#anger
#shame #despair
#shame #despair
854 reads
12 Comments
adagio
Poem Published
1st Mar 2023 4:27pm
1st Mar 2023 4:27pm
Wood Screws Of Antietam
As the wood screw broke off
a gateway to my dreams
of glass almond chandeliers
and watch-lamp shutters
at unlit hours among the willows
listening to the screaming Antietam
feeling the life of souls bleeding
touched by the bullet ball
a gateway to my dreams
flowing into the Potomac
as the wood screw broke off
a gateway to my dreams
of glass almond chandeliers
and watch-lamp shutters
at unlit hours among the willows
listening to the screaming Antietam
feeling the life of souls bleeding
touched by the bullet ball
a gateway to my dreams
flowing into the Potomac
as the wood screw broke off
#sadness
#dark
#shame
#emptiness
#philosophical
158 reads
0 Comments
brokentitanium
k.
k.
Poem Published
14th Feb 2024 5:06pm
14th Feb 2024 5:06pm
Boxed in
Boxed in
I'm trying to breathe.
Expressions of self hit the glass
and fall limp with crooked wings
leaving nothing but a smear of hopeless feathers
My soul peeking out of this
mime-created imaginary cube,
I reach out and my fingers crumple
against an invisible wall
A prison - is it of my own making?
What holds me inside?
The easy answer is fear
but there is no prowling tiger out there
no mortal enemy
so fight-flight-freeze makes no rational sense
Yet here I sit, encased in ice. ...
I'm trying to breathe.
Expressions of self hit the glass
and fall limp with crooked wings
leaving nothing but a smear of hopeless feathers
My soul peeking out of this
mime-created imaginary cube,
I reach out and my fingers crumple
against an invisible wall
A prison - is it of my own making?
What holds me inside?
The easy answer is fear
but there is no prowling tiger out there
no mortal enemy
so fight-flight-freeze makes no rational sense
Yet here I sit, encased in ice. ...
#identity
#shame
#memories
#healing
#PersonalGrowth
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12 Comments
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