Best Regret Poems
Below are the all-time best Regret poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of regret poems written by PoetrySoup members
One RegretNow walking through the autumn of my life
Where maple leaves have turned from green to gold
I watch them fall in breezes turning cold
In a whirl-wind...
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Categories:
regret, introspection, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Uncharted WatersAn ocean tumbles through dreams of you. In depths unknown,
I float above. Oh, how I long to dive beneath your surface,
yet I am...
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Categories:
regret, appreciation, longing, love, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
For One Pass of Your Breathyou write your words and they make me cry
you write those word and you know i die
but i've died so often now
i held you in...
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Categories:
regret, lost love, love, love
Form:
Free verse
No Thunder Without LightningLightning rarely strikes without thunder,
causing havoc in gloomy skies.
Humans can't control their plunder,
seeking shelter until the storm dies.
Once, I was your prince - full of...
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Categories:
regret, absence, angst, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupingsyou were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you
'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey
there's not...
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Categories:
regret, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Ungrateful ChildI woke up that day with tears in my eyes,
after I heard about your father's demise.
Guess you've never understood,
the point of being his blood.
I remember...
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Categories:
regret, anger, death, death of
Form:
Rhyme
DoorsThere are so many doors
Which ones should I choose
Green, yellow, brown, purple
and many different blues
Some of them are rustic
Others modern and clean
Some lead to the...
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Categories:
regret, appreciation, beautiful, celebration, courage,
Form:
Quatrain
Tears On Her Pillow - Continued From a Girl Named Sue
Tears for a Mother
Fears for a Father gone
Fate deals an unfair hand
The door to youthful joy closing
on adolescent shoulders imposing
grown up responsibilities instead
Eyes sadly deprived...
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Categories:
regret, fate, first love, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Sometimes We Don'T Get a Chance To Say Goodbyesometimes
we don't get a chance
to say goodbye
you sit there
tears in your eyes
wondering why
and
it don't make sense
to be strong
because it stings
you can't explain
the pain each
memory brings
and
the...
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Categories:
regret, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Even In Silence We Have Our Wordssometimes
we are afraid to jump
but we take the leap
sometimes
when we fall deeply
it's not our limbs injured
sometimes
what is meant for us
hurts too much
sometimes
nothing makes sense
confusion reigns...
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Categories:
regret, philosophy, poetry, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Forget Our Hearts VisionsNow that only forgotten promises remain,
sounds of solitude are gifts I wish to obtain.
Sentiments are temporary in a world full of change,
affections are wasted in...
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Categories:
regret, emotions, heartbroken, lost love,
Form:
Lyric
Tearful
“My tears are testimony of my devotion to Beloved;
and from those tears white lilies will grow that speak the truth.”
Rumi
I had heard the legend of...
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Categories:
regret, appreciation, love,
Form:
Epic
You Caught the WindI remember you, from when there was a spring
When the seasons were ripe, with verdant green
Our nimble feet danced in the wind
and on the brink...
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Categories:
regret, death of a friend,
Form:
Free verse
Silence PersonifiedI am nature,
soul of a mountain,
buried under
a billion snowflakes.
I float like butterflies,
from petal to petal.
As cinereal clouds clear,
under a glistening sunrise,
I illuminate like a...
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Categories:
regret, analogy, metaphor, silence,
Form:
Personification
If God Gives Me TomorrowIf God gives me tomorrow
I'll try to stop crying
unlike this dark night
where I fear that I'm dying
If He gives me tomorrow
I'll let go of today
I'll...
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Categories:
regret, faith, inspirational, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme