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Best Shouldve Poems

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


Shouldve Known Better
i thought that we could make it work,
you acted like you were changing,
but i shouldve known better.

you told me you were ready to get serious,
and...

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Categories: shouldve, love,
Form: I do not know?



Come Back
The pains starting to kick in now that i am all alone.
 I wish i could just take everything back and make it all how...

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Categories: shouldve, best friend, betrayal, boyfriend,
Form: ABC
My Plead
I learned to accept good with the 
bad.. The ugly ruined everything we 
ever had, realizing u were 
everything I ever had. said u didnt...

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Categories: shouldve, dedication, devotion, faith, fear,
Form: Verse
Things
GOTTA GOOD 1 FOR A FOLKS LOVE IT EVERYTIME
JUST A STUPID POEM FOR YA TRY TA MAKE IT RHYME
THINK OF THINGS OF SILLY PAST N...

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Categories: shouldve, visionary, silly,
Form: I do not know?
Feeling
LOVE FOR MEN 
LOVE FOR FAMILY
ALL OF THIS IS JUS A TRAGEDY
WHY ME IS WHAT I CRY OUT TO THE LORD
PEOPLE DONT BELIEVE ME THEY...

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Categories: shouldve, loss, people, sad, teen,
Form: I do not know?



Lies
It shouldve been perfectly clear

You only said what I wanted to hear

But you see, my dear, 

When I look in the mirror

I still see the...

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Categories: shouldve, betrayal, break up,
Form: Free verse
Warning Shot
My sins are of my own doing
Skeletons of my own choosing
None worse than forgiving
I shouldve known better
I know how you are
Right down to the letter
Cowardice...

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Categories: shouldve, best friend, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda
i couldve had you for a lifetime
i wouldve always cared
i shouldve stuffed my head
with the memories we shared.
 i couldve dreamt of you
and your warm...

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© Aarin Faux  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shouldve, depression
Form: I do not know?
Dark Vanquishes Light
soft cherry kisses send me into bliss
upon my frown lays your silk lips
a graze of a hand so soft i almost miss
i shouldve known you...

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© Sam Tab  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shouldve, angst, break up, longing,
Form: Free verse
Im So Tired With Me Now(Make Myself Sick)
Current mood: distraught
Category: Life

If i could just project my voice into the ears of those i love
I would take the world into my words and...

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Categories: shouldve, friendship, lost love, song-teenme,
Form: Elegy
Vengeance
Lord grant me the power to forgive
so that I may have the will to live
Grant me peace
feelings of revenge help me to release
I need you...

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Categories: shouldve, anger, anxiety, betrayal, feelings,
Form: Bio
Suicide From a Cliff
Standing back from the edge
Im hurting do bad
Cutting cant bury the pain
I cant bleed it out anymore.
Sobbing for what I couldnt had-
Shouldve had,
I find myself...

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Categories: shouldve, angst, confusion, death, depression,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Broken Fragments
Hopeless from the start, I shouldve known it all along.
Darkness in ones heart, and other places it doesnt belong.
Broken fragments of life, are now dripping...

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Categories: shouldve, life,
Form: ABC
Is It That Hard
Is it that hard?
I tried, I was civil, 
Even pleasant;
I asked about your stupid jeep
When I knew all about it,
I answered your few questions
Very nicely...

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Categories: shouldve, daughter, depression, family, father,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Till Death
(vrs 1)
robed in white
but it shouldve been black
lifes counting on this moment
cant take actions back
bound by a tie
we look at eachother
and know this is a...

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Categories: shouldve, confusion, death, life, loss,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs