Regret Poems - Poems about Regret

you let love slip through your fingers where you once held the key now you're haunted with regret and have nowhere else to flee...

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Inspired by Mati, a Stubborn, Beautiful, Black Angora When Mom sat me on the ground, oh, meow, what fun I found. Loved the out, but now I need in more, so I call and rub our door. Where's our stuff they carried out, I still smell familiars about? They just don't hear me yet, I'm sure there's no reason...

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These days I often find myself lying on my pristine rock, hard bed thinking about why the world would ever care about someone like me. I wonder how my thoughts ever drifted this far. Maybe social media? Or my own self-conceit, brimming with forbidden passions even van Gogh or Picasso couldn't imagine. Yet, I only say that because I can't...

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The Coca-Cola lamp made a circle of light on the nightstand— (soft and amber) barely touching the horses beneath it. You lifted the needle up gently, and set it down lightly again: “Bye, bye, Miss American Pie…” We didn’t say goodbye. Not really. Not the kind that...

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Late night, under the bloody moonlight. Sea breeze, I can almost freeze, With a clothing that is ripped. I lay on the soft mattress, Like a damsel in distress. Waiting for a knight, That would be willing to save such mistress. I feel like a pebble, being thrown in the water. I may stay afloat, but will inevitably drown. When will such misery leave...

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I Tried to Unlearn ……. his name , his face, his memory but each morning they kept resurfacing; rubber ringed feelings that would not sink no matter how hard I pushed down. So I journeyed to places that had rooted our relationship: The park where the broad-shouldered oak unwrapped delicacies of intimate memories then leaning in much closer it shared a consolatory shadow. The...

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Good Enough Cry Ugly’s shame lost its power. I took back my power… no longer relying on external validation of my worth… Unflinching reflection revealed that cry ugly's self-imposed shame was bone deep regret… I am the only one responsible for buying into the malicious judgment of a few, that I wasn't good enough… Judged by their bias, without...

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What can I say, what can I do that can, express the love I have for you. Through the years, through the tears, through the...

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"Fierce Review" Hindsight reviews tells me so much of what I want to keep, change, or completely drop. My fierce review of my marriage and how my best fell short giving Doug what he earned and deserved… A review only as a widow, not as a divorcee, or in the middle of a dying marriage. This was...

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"Cry Ugly" My deepest private searing pain manifests as "Cry Ugly.” Guttural moans race like a runaway train. The wail crescendos and peaks as a Banshee scream. Tears race down my face… my nose leaks... snot and tears merge dripping off my chin reminding me of small intermittent waterfalls… I taste salt. Vain furious attempts to wipe this viscous...

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I always kept my dreams buried deep within, Making sure hope was meticulously protected by skin But you chiseled your way in and showed me what could have been So now all i'm left with, is having to take it on the chin I was okay, you know? With my incandescent glow. Before you convinced me that no, That is not...

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I tried to take something off your plate, That was a huge mistake. Honestly, sorry for what I ate, Now there is no way to replace. Trying to find a compromise, I honestly want to apologize. Truthfully, can’t decide, Do I deserve to die? The whole time, I was just along for the ride. Got me staring at the sky Questioning is my brain working...

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Forget riffs of regrets But To the hilt We tilt to Inbuilt lilt A guilt quilt Can jilt & wilt But No tiffs with what ifs Won’t let you fret Circumspect.. I find Older you get Bet..more honest…more kind Care more..know more Late bloomer rumour Embraces candour...humour Respect velvety vagaries Traces of reflect Suspect future’s the tutor Detect serendipity the suitor Evolution..glints of revolution Pip that convoluted New Year’s tip Genuinely don’t genuflect No sorrow...deflect hints...

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For years I had an idea in my head You came along and brought it to life I watched my thoughts and words take form of a human Dreams of romance and adoration truly breathed I was in awe Something so far was finally at my fingertips You were real That was the best time of my life I hate myself for taking...

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The house of my life Is cracked and rotted. The floors are warped, And all of my broken windows Welcome rain. But from the rubble, I’ll piece out a coat, Made from my very best scraps and shards. Here’s a patch of rug from Tibet And the cobweb strands of a once regal drape. Cupped like an egg in a frothy current of days, You,...

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