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Best Regrets Poems

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Mountain of Regrets
As large boulders weep,
Tears stream down sharp cheeks of stone:
Sobbing precipice....

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Categories: regrets, nature
Form: Haiku
Regrets Of The Raspberry Moon

When cyan night's 
raspberry moon
is dipped in softness 
of the afterglows, 
I gaze at that glossy
first evening star between 
creamy fingers of 
my cherry palm,...

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Categories: regrets, dark, deep, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No Regrets
unfold age
fold in youth
find lost time...

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Categories: regrets, life
Form: Senryu




Regrets
I regret
Not speaking up when I should have
Spewing when I should have been quiet
Not saying I love you
Slinging my anger
Being impatient with others
Bowing to fear
My...

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Categories: regrets, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No Regrets - Carpe Diem
Never let PRESENT
Become the PAST at which you 
Look back from the FUTURE and  
Perceive with regret
What you should not have let drift 
Seize...

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Categories: regrets, inspirational, romance, uplifting,
Form: Sedoka
Premium Member Unspoken Regrets
as the weight of my breath becomes
one heavy mist gathering smoke 
on the floor, until i holler inside my lungs
as if to collapse or disintegrate
into...

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Categories: regrets, how i feel, sad
Form: Lyric



Regrets
Form: Infinite Dot Thirteen Verse Is a rare form of poetry, where by the poem is made up of thirteen lines and within the poem...

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Categories: regrets, life,
Form: Classicism
All Regrets
All regrets, in every backward flashback
leave bitter tastes like remorseful morsels
  left drowning in your tear welled eyes
    each day was...

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Categories: regrets, angst, forgiveness, introspection
Form: Free verse
Regrets
Perhaps regrets sadly
Burn holes where pain forms
Even loving madly
Won’t stop these dark storms

Flaming comets burning
Souls joined two as one
Wanting, lusting, yearning
Fire that lit the sun

Dreamers,...

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© Judith S   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: regrets, i miss you,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Memories and Regrets
The windows of regret are open now
I long to drift out into the quiet night
But now to my memories I must bow
Holding on to heartaches...

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Categories: regrets, lost love, sad
Form: Quatrain
Regrets
Once upon a time I was in love with him beyond any balance of the imagination 
that you could ever imagine or even read in...

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Categories: regrets, absence, break up, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Regrets -
I never liked the smell of lilacs although they were always
your favorite flower.
When did you stop bringing them home?  I never noticed, 
Wish I...

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Categories: regrets, lost love, words,
Form: Free verse
Mistakes and Regrets
some days i wish upon a star,
that you'd come back one day.
you took my heart and shattered it,
and you took my life away.

i thought we'd...

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Categories: regrets, lost love, lovelove,
Form:
Regrets
Regrets

They follow you like vultures
soaring in wistful circles
alighting on church roofs
at weddings and christenings,
never out of your sight
and chew on your dreams.
Their shadows mark the...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: regrets, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member By Water's Edge
Sitting reminiscing
About the subtle signs
Along one’s journey
The roads not traveled
The messages so hard to read
Reminders meant for the soul
Heart longings heard
And those that aren’t
Life passing...

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Categories: regrets, friendship, journey, life, longing,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs