Poems About Shame by Top Critiquers
#shame
DamianDeadLove
Poem Published
31st Aug 2024 5:54am
31st Aug 2024 5:54am
Payment's Always Due
Wicked men get off on displaying power
With senseless acts of orchestrated greed
Paying lip-service to those in the trenches
In hopes of spreading their malignant seed
Pure blood lines control valuable resources
Rothschild and Rockefeller to name a few
Influence that reaches to the depths of hell
Sooner or later the payment’s always due
With senseless acts of orchestrated greed
Paying lip-service to those in the trenches
In hopes of spreading their malignant seed
Pure blood lines control valuable resources
Rothschild and Rockefeller to name a few
Influence that reaches to the depths of hell
Sooner or later the payment’s always due
#denial
#hate
#shame
204 reads
14 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
6th Jan 2025 10:22am
6th Jan 2025 10:22am
Move on, leave the scene
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 destroy you!
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 destroy you!
It's for weak fools
I've moved on
#fiction
#rejection
#relationships
#shame
#ShortStory
96 reads
4 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
806 reads
26 Comments
Betty
Poem Published
21st Mar 2025 12:45pm
21st Mar 2025 12:45pm
That knock on my broken screen door
The neighbors
sit on broken
lawn chairs
as I run screaming
down our dirt road
throwing empty
beer cans
at the car you
stole to
leave me
And they offer me
sympathetic
glares and shots
of whisky
while taking in
the green-stick
break on my heart
(I fell down the stairs)
the two purple
fist marks
on my soul
(I ran into a wall)
And the missing
patches of
self worth
that looked
like they were
yanked out ...
sit on broken
lawn chairs
as I run screaming
down our dirt road
throwing empty
beer cans
at the car you
stole to
leave me
And they offer me
sympathetic
glares and shots
of whisky
while taking in
the green-stick
break on my heart
(I fell down the stairs)
the two purple
fist marks
on my soul
(I ran into a wall)
And the missing
patches of
self worth
that looked
like they were
yanked out ...
#lust
#obsession
#shame
184 reads
10 Comments
Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
9th Jul 2024 9:18pm
9th Jul 2024 9:18pm
MAKITA OR IKEEM
Through the process and stages of our lives and time, ⌚ there will always be one man or woman. THAT will always stands a very different format of a different kind of a WOMAN OR MAN.
🤔 JUST by the way she or he speaks volumes of confidence, and intelligence with knowledge and wisdom, to know thyself. 🪬 For she or he is the kind of person as a woman or a man, who cares about there appearance not to get attention. BUT to be able to be thyself as a woman or a man 💖 For beneath there are lays layers upon layers of there personality, and the deepness of there...
🤔 JUST by the way she or he speaks volumes of confidence, and intelligence with knowledge and wisdom, to know thyself. 🪬 For she or he is the kind of person as a woman or a man, who cares about there appearance not to get attention. BUT to be able to be thyself as a woman or a man 💖 For beneath there are lays layers upon layers of there personality, and the deepness of there...
#anger
#confusion
#disappointment
#heartbroken
#shame
205 reads
0 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
655 reads
4 Comments
WillowsWhimsies
Poem Published
11th Jun 2024 1:40pm
11th Jun 2024 1:40pm
house of cards
it all crashed down with 4 short words
echo reverberating in my ears
shattering every fragile illusion
destroying all hope of a life never had
dreams of an idyllic childhood
left in the past
...gone...
point of no turning back
...
& I couldn't tell you who said them
only remember dropping the phone
going out into darkness
utterly alone
left my baby in her cradle
& simply walked away
goddess forgive me...
...it was necessary
too raw yet to weep
standing beneath a darkened sky ...
echo reverberating in my ears
shattering every fragile illusion
destroying all hope of a life never had
dreams of an idyllic childhood
left in the past
...gone...
point of no turning back
...
& I couldn't tell you who said them
only remember dropping the phone
going out into darkness
utterly alone
left my baby in her cradle
& simply walked away
goddess forgive me...
...it was necessary
too raw yet to weep
standing beneath a darkened sky ...
#choices
#confessional
#healing
#shame
#strength
273 reads
3 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
363 reads
6 Comments
Nevermindthegaps
Poem Published
23rd Apr 2024 10:11pm
23rd Apr 2024 10:11pm
7x7
I muttered prayers
to open stars
on meth strained week-with-no-sleep
evenings trying to get some bearing
on what I wanted
stained clothes and icy pavements
melted asphalt in the summer
the stench of it cloying and thick
my own body caked in a miasma
of sweat and unclean
I opened my wrists to scrawl semantics
write to tear the demons of thought from my psyche try to make sense of what I am
where I came from
all the scars
fractures and moments
are a kaleidoscope of broken
that were...
to open stars
on meth strained week-with-no-sleep
evenings trying to get some bearing
on what I wanted
stained clothes and icy pavements
melted asphalt in the summer
the stench of it cloying and thick
my own body caked in a miasma
of sweat and unclean
I opened my wrists to scrawl semantics
write to tear the demons of thought from my psyche try to make sense of what I am
where I came from
all the scars
fractures and moments
are a kaleidoscope of broken
that were...
#confusion
#grief
#regret #shame
#regret #shame
208 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
278 reads
12 Comments
CasketSharpe
Poem Published
23rd Apr 2019 8:34pm
23rd Apr 2019 8:34pm
Silence of the Bitch
#hate
#dark
#shame #dirty
#shame #dirty
597 reads
8 Comments
Pinkdreams
Poem Published
3rd Feb 2024 2:51pm
3rd Feb 2024 2:51pm
Sorry
He's yelling at me.
Why did you put your clothes in my dresser drawer?
Why?
That's crazy!
It's MY house
Not yours
i'm scared
i think i may have filled up two drawers
maybe three
a red sweater on top in one
but didn't i live with him for a while?
no
right
never
not at all
when he leaves
i'll remove everything
except my shame
that will take a while
Why did you put your clothes in my dresser drawer?
Why?
That's crazy!
It's MY house
Not yours
i'm scared
i think i may have filled up two drawers
maybe three
a red sweater on top in one
but didn't i live with him for a while?
no
right
never
not at all
when he leaves
i'll remove everything
except my shame
that will take a while
#shame
#UnrequitedLove
#nightmares
284 reads
8 Comments
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