Get Your Premium Membership

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.
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
... Baa, baa, black sheep Have you any wool? Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full. One for the master, And one for the dame, And one for the little boy Who lives down the lane. Now this little di......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Rue Saint-Honore
...It's the weekend (Friday night). Lisa and I are hangin’, music’s playing, and we’re rummaging through my suitcase, for an outfit option, for me, tonight. Call it cliché, but we like going out - and g......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, fashion, friendship, fun, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love And Kind Intent
... If all we did in our lifetime Came from a place of love and kind intent The world would be a better place Not perfect…though many sufferings it would prevent It is such a shame it is ......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, life, peace, world,
Form: Rhyme
ON MY MIND
...ON MY MIND You are or were, always on my mind Like a backdrop to all my thoughts To have lost you now, I am resigned My world is now ones and noughts Another such as you I will never find A s......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, lost love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tongue Tied
...It must be terrible… to be tied up in knots, what if it clots... how could one complain? Such a terrible shame, I can't help you loosen it... not even a little bit, maybe, just cut the cord? ......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, extended metaphor, feelings, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARLINGTON HEIGHTS GANG UNIT
...AFTER GIVING BIRTH TO 8 CHILDREN ACTUALLY DELIVERING MY GRAND SON IN TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL WOW WHAT A BLESSING ONE THING FORSURE VISITING HOURS AND NOT TO MENTION ALWAYS ONLY TWO FAMILY ME......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, america, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Overflowing
... I didn’t see Him when I thought I should. He came to me, I soon understood, When I least expected Him to pour His love… Over my heart, through my soul, Into my life… Love so b......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
Under the cemetery of falling stars, beneath veils of eternity
...Under the cemetery of falling stars, beneath veils of eternity, The end of any affair is death. She is my sanctuary, An evanescent eye, slipping through the magical veil, Far from the tribe of my ......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Who are you?
...Grown man? With kinda light blond hair but not yet white nor silver. Everyone walking by seemed normal but you milder. Your face was pale like snow. Why did you stand in my kitchen? Why did you t......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
The faint smile
... Thoughtful but seldom happy Feigned by concerns and craving Reigned by dishonor and shame ......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry's Soup
...Stumbling along the worn down pine, Clamoring like a babe against floor and a table leg I found the stool to shame all other stools. Propping my bony bottom atop Like a laggardly old lion, Don......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Changing Face of Shame
... So much has changed in the past 50 years or so one thing is the word shame once a friend now our foe Half a century ago it had a fear a true fear of God was felt among a generation back the......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, change, god, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hey Diddly Dee A Poet's Life For Me
...As a young boy my dreams and voice were shattered, I was beaten with words like raging stones thrown in anger, Threatened with violence until my life no longer mattered, Spoken word became less as......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, abuse, anger, pain, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member new lava lamps
...The abandoned Mansion was once owned by the Adams Family. They were doing a terrific business in their lumberyard at the time. Day laborers who were not busy were sent over to build their home. It......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Calendrical Casino
...Ten. Ten years, I've been scared, fearing the phone's ring. Twenty. Twenty years, I was, learning how goodbye really felt. Thirty. Thirty years, I reached, forty-four days ago. F......Read the rest...
Categories: shame, death, grief, loss, memorial
Form: Free verse

Related Poems


Book: Reflection on the Important Things