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Best Remorseful Poems

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Premium Member As I Watch the Waves Crash
From precipice of memories, flashbacks nostalgic billow,
Thinking of you as I ruminate, adoring the views below,
Where waves oceanic dance, leaping on windy tempos,
Propagating ambitions of...

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Categories: remorseful, life, lost love, love,
Form: Verse



Premium Member The Wall
Winnie, wild-eyed, went insane
and sang “Happy Birthday” in the rain, 
while she washed away her bloody pain.

Now all day long she sings that song,
she sings...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: remorseful, birthday, character, child, child
Form: Rhyme
Fickle Lover
The remorseful ocean murmured her regrets
                   ...

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Categories: remorseful, nature
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Phantom of Love
All alone you sit there in grip of graveyard, hosting demonic thoughts,
Listening to cries of tombstones, squalling from lovers’ somber epitaphs,
Recounting how you chased prospects,...

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Categories: remorseful, death, lust, sorrow,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Ethereal Lanterns
As the holy season commemorates revelations of scriptures,
Sacred flame burning within, reinvigorates soul’s intellect,
Steering away from the fallible, toward realms of perfect,
Away from servitude of...

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Categories: remorseful, inspirational, meaningful, uplifting,
Form: Verse



Premium Member The Phases of Grief
THE PHASES OF GRIEF
bereavement pain physical
spiritual and philosophical 

SHOCK & DENIAL
can’t find relief
overwhelming numbed disbelief

PAIN & GUILT
unbearable preemptive suffering 
remorseful chaos excruciating

ANGER & BARGAINING
growing bitter...

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Categories: remorseful, courage, endurance, grief, introspection,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Each Passing Cloud
Aimlessly wander veiled memories of yore
Each passing cloud subtly brings to fore
Recalling regrets, where laments agonize,
Thinking of you, searching forsaken skies,
Muting spent emotions of anguished...

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Categories: remorseful, grief, lost love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member fragrance of fading roses
My soul 
    is in purgatory,
settling in fading tunes
  of suppressed silence,
swerving perpetually 
amongst
   smoky quartz silhouettes;
swiveling through 
the...

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Categories: remorseful, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A World Without War
Peace and unity sing in harmony, echoing worldwide,
When acts of humility replace revenge-infused pride,
When narrowness of mind, naked ambitions subside,
When nations of goodwill, stand together...

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Categories: remorseful, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
I Am Nothing But the Color Red
My veins bleed of Crimson defeat-
The way they flow with such ease and comfort
      brings me to my remorseful knees…
I...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: remorseful, angst, anxiety, red,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Titanic
Collisions avalanche, beneath the icy
Waves, of the North Atlantic.
Birthed in the cradled of Belfast,
A maritime giant, became crimsoned,
By champions shattered tradition,
An ironic omen presence to...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: remorseful, adventure, imagination, inspirational, international,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dear Dad
Dear DaD,
Please do not think of me and weep. 
I did not die on that dim lit street.
I'm the sun that shines on you in...

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Categories: remorseful, death, forgiveness, loss, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Beyond the Looking Glass
 
~*~

Close your eyes
To your surprise
Wake up never recognized..

Time beyond the looking glass
Nonchalantly travels past
Without a single question asked..

Judgmental eyes stare in vain
A victim of...

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Categories: remorseful, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
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: remorseful, angst, forgiveness, introspection
Form: Free verse
I Shall Go
I shall go


I am writing you with remorseful heart,
for the sin that I am yet to offend;
the sin I myself mightn’t forgive myself.
The sin that...

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Categories: remorseful, cute love,
Form: Blank verse

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