Best Regretting Poems

Regretting one's past ruinous actions
 
is certainly a waste of precious time 

wise would be to use the lessons learned 

to build his future's edifice sublime! 








© Demetrios Trifiatis
     29 January 2020


* I would like to thank my friends for their...

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A new guy I’d met said to me,
“We ought to have cake by the sea.”
As he gazed in my eyes,
I did not realize
He spoke metaphorically.

A tiny bikini I wore
That day we strolled down to the shore.
No cake did I see,
Which seemed odd to me
Since cake...

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Written for the contest "Regretting Cake"

The drunken groom,
was in his bedroom,
as I had my cake with his bride.
And in hindsight I would chide 
myself for charming, smiling,
and to her causing alarming
intimation of satiation loom.

His best man and kin,
were coaxing his skin,
into the nuptial shower.
But the...

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So my friend said  his sister was saying her vows
In a low key church ceremony three weeks from now
No parties, no showers, no flowers, no muss
But I thought to myself she deserved a small fuss!

So I planned a surprise that would redden her face
A...

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The cake I regret is the one I ate on our wedding day....

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(Not) Regretting Cake

Never ending restrictions are slave driver’s tools a debatable concept wielding

Onslaughts on conscience asceticism zero sums zero size and perfection

To not trespass the segments of cake the boundaries and frontiers rules and


Regulations to not violate prescriptions norms dogma seems violent in itself

Ethics of...

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Regretting Cake Takes Two

Rachael looked sheepishly like a hawk in disguise claws clenched meticulous sharpened
yet hidden her sullen face pressing wrinkled no motion frosted lips the icing on the cake
It had meant to be such a happy occasion armistice peace offering one last final relaunch...

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I bought a three layer chocolate cake for my sister
     it had chocolate icing all around and fancy sweet words-
saying   H A P P Y  B I R T H D A Y . . . . 
but...

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Did you mention 'regrets'?

I have one or two, a few or possibly a million.
Depends on which way the wind is blowing,
and how gracious I'm feeling in the moment
Like, I'll never forgive that guy who butchered
my ideals of love everlasting,  that'll last a lifetime
nor, when...

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The moment I stepped on the scale,
my mouth started to shout and wail,
not that many pounds!
My belly’s so round,
I’m starting to look like a whale!

I shouldn’t have eaten more cheesecake,
it sure was my biggest mistake, 
no more skinny me, 
three hundred eighty,
so heavy I may...

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This may seem odd, but on this take,
The only cake I regretted was the one I didn't bake.

As a child my mom taught me the art of beating the mix,
Showing me the variations that were her little "tricks".

The one that I make mention of is...

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Having a dinner party that night
I was getting the meal prepared,
had all the steaks and salad ready
but nothing yet for dessert,
feeling like a Betty Crocker,
but with little time left,
decided to make an upside down
pineapple cake from scratch,
getting out a recipe from Good
Housekeeping from the rack,
reading...

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Oh! now regretting cake
                                hands are weak so can't bake
    ...

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Pineapple cake tempted my taste buds
Sliced in the lunch hour of the work
Single slice was not ample
To satisfy cravings
Tasting two slices
Without thinking
In high blood 
Glucose 
Test...

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Don’t eat cake, they said; it goes to your hips
That’d be sexy, I think and lick the cream on my lips
Don’t eat cake, they said; it goes to your thigh
A little cushion on those matchsticks I can’t deny
I ate seconds with cream so yummy
It sat...

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