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Best Regrettably Poems

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Premium Member Wabi-Sabi
"Dead leaves lay still, even the last flower is withered: yet there is a beauty in decayed imperfection." Taken from a quote by _Constance La...

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Categories: regrettably, beauty,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Good and Evil
Good,

                  God’s presence in Man

   ...

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Categories: regrettably, evil, god, world,
Form: Diamante
Premium Member Poet's Epitaph
"Xanadu of Oranges", the reporter wrote,
just one of many paper slips and notes,
left behind when the poet died, unquote.
To his very last moment, he had...

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Categories: regrettably, introspection
Form: Sonnet
Reaching the Third Level
To reach nirvana
Poet paradise
You have to reach the third level

It's a journey to forever
It may take some their whole lifetime,
and others may never get there

It's...

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Categories: regrettably, allegory, allusion, beauty, courage,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Collateral Lamb
Thus I sail the sacrificial scabrous seas and touch tormented tides
Battle-scarred in the breeze and washed ashore where evil hides
The Sun regrettably retreats where malice...

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Categories: regrettably, abuse, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme



Vanity Nemesis
Within the mendicant monolithic mirror
The fraudulent faces that are never nearer
For in the whimsical wonderland of Alice
Parasitic pretenders in the pompous palace

As we listen to...

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Categories: regrettably, corruption, fantasy, mirror,
Form: Free verse
To Whom It May Concern
Today, it is a sunny Thursday morning in April, and my body
aches like it does when a rainstorm hits, and I am regrettably 
bitter about...

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Categories: regrettably, feelings, growth, life, lost,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eulogy For a Lost Poem
You gave me magical words this morning.
I should have stopped everything I was doing – 
to go write them down.

Words are precious fleeting, living things
And...

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Categories: regrettably, dedication, irony, memory,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Let Their Dreams Not Die
In the indifferent desiccated wasteland 
obscure tufts of slender grass 
struggle to rise from cleavage of ruthless rocks,
their tips holding the pearls of dew drops
sparkling...

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Categories: regrettably, analogy, child abuse, children,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Who Put Luebella Down the Wych Elm
"Who Put Luebella down the Wych Elm?"

There are rumours
about me, some 
come seeking me
with their geiger counters
and ouji boards
with their heart 
shaped planchettes

unanswered questions
in the...

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Categories: regrettably, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Jesus Is the Greatest
Jesus is the greatest
There's no man greater It’s a fact
You cant deny he change the world, he made an impact
He is the past, present and...

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Categories: regrettably, bible, faith, god, jesus,
Form: Lyric
Missing Him
As The Rising Sun, The Dawn Came In Softly & Slowly;
&
So Did My Suffering.

Maybe Unexplained Or Unexpected Feelings;
Which Have Been Ignored;
A Sudden Melancholy Skulking In...

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Categories: regrettably, angel, best friend, boyfriend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Divine Nature Ii
Your book of wisdom,

Have you opened, before my wondering eyes,

Oh, divine nature 

Wishing thus all of your secrets to me 

To unveil


And


I, for decades now,...

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Categories: regrettably, introspection, nature, truth,
Form: Epigram
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots V
Spawned from the loins that 
Perpetuated the loyal serfs mongrel
Seed:-
These peoples of a conditioned and
"Resigned-To-it-all" breed.
Born into the enveloping tedium
Of interlocking days...Interwoven
With interlocking days -
Victims...

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Categories: regrettably, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Modest Proposal To the Universal Dilemma of Human Melancholy
What is it to dwell in the realm of melancholy? Is it merely a cloak of desolation that we wear, or rather a wave of...

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Categories: regrettably, depression, encouraging, hope, motivation,
Form: Prose

Book: Shattered Sighs