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Best Regretful Poems

Below are the all-time best Regretful poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of regretful poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Old Man
Silently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my...

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Categories: regretful, angst, dark, life,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Silent Goodbye
I forgot myself today
as melancholic melodies 
overwhelm each beat
of my wandering heart.

The sanctimonious sun deceives
as a bitter breeze breathes
against sullen silent surfaces.

Recycled emotions penetrate
with a...

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Categories: regretful, absence, i miss you,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Silent Rhapsody
I remember
when I was a poor boy
and nobody loved me
mamma's tears felt like acid
burning holes in my heart -
I became breathless

triggers came without a guarantee
violence...

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Categories: regretful, childhood, emotions, integrity,
Form: Lyric
Tributaries Of Black Tulips - Collaboration with 'Ink Empress'

When heinous fangs
of life drain
the amethyst glow
flowing above 
infected ripples of time,
I question the 
chaos that claims
serenity through 
saline serenade 
of sirens, composed 
with midnight...

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Categories: regretful, black love, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Submerged In Shallow Streams
Shimmering silhouettes haunt.

Shadow stands still, 
observing his soul drift towards 
the tree of melancholy.

Its morbid image stands silent,
but screams inside the mind.

I could write a...

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Categories: regretful, angst, death, father son,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Silent Abyssinian Agapornis
His scarlet head droops
towards his soulless emerald chest.
Perched upon a fruitless branch,
his spiritless eyes stare 
at the emptiness of freedom.

Above, streaks of ruby hints
flow among...

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Categories: regretful, angst, freedom, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Serenade
Sometimes..

Life can be a silent serenade,
                   ...

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Categories: regretful, angst, sad, silence,
Form: Free verse
Be It Only By Dreams
With the onset of advancing age, so I find,        
A man grows weary of all mundane talk; ...

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Categories: regretful, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Mom

My dearest mom, forty and eight years gone,
   although to me, it seems like yesterday.
You were too young to leave this earth at...

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Categories: regretful, mom,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Perpetual Symphony of Spears and Daggers
he was like autumn
all around him 
                  ...

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Categories: regretful, dad, death, silence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dawn Blessings From God For Mankind
Azure-accentuated ambiance awaits aspiring artists
Baby’s birth brings blessings, blowing boredom-blues
Cool calmness charms circumspect chefs to create cuisine cravings 
Daybreak dos and don’ts discipline drivers from...

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Categories: regretful, appreciation, blessing, encouraging, faith,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member A Slow Hand, Deep Thoughts and True Pen
A Slow Hand, Deep Thoughts And True Pen

Each time I write of my crashed hopes and dreams
mind falls into black-depths, sends cold shivers.
Tempted to falsely...

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Categories: regretful, art, creation, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Still Out Back
Hints of warmer days and barbeque dreams
filter through the last gasps of winter air
cold drinks and late nights soon to be seen
through tiny openings of...

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Categories: regretful, body, creation, love,
Form: Personification
Fabricated Falsehood Collaboration With Silent One
In silence we admire the splendor of our universe,
surrounded by breathtaking scenery ever so diverse.
Golden Sun, pale moon and silver stars animate an artist's mind,
whilst...

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Categories: regretful, betrayal, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Flashbacks - Four way collaboration
For turning you invisible,
I'll always be regretful,
when things got critical
was easy to be forgetful.
I left you in a state of shock , 
in tears heavier...

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Categories: regretful, angst,
Form: Lyric

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