Regret Poems
For the Love of My Father
by Samuel Cody
There's always pain in the music of the night
It summons all my broken dreams to come dance about my mind,
And in their fractured shadows, I contemplate your plight
Yet in that frantic jig, no answers can I find.
Nothing I consider can justify your bitter flight,
When by all your wretched flaws you were confined
All my strength of will cannot manifest my dreams that we'd reunite.
Were you scared of yourself, or this child you left behind?
My heart bleeds with tormented hate, as I sit beneath the midnight sun
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Patience
by Abena Gyamfua Aboagye
It's been a while since I wrote about anything
Obviously I thought I could manage to get everything
As fast as I could
Not as slow as it should
I rushed over life's pages
Got myself trapped in multiple cages
If I could only express regret in tears
I would be able to erase all my fears
But oh no! I just can't seem to cry
My sense of humanity has gone dry.
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Continue readingif i died(would you be there)
by Rumi Ullidov
If I died
Would you be there darling
To carry the burden of abandonment in your shoulders
I mean my corpse
Would you be there
So you could taste the long rainy nights
Through your tears
Tears of pain, maybe regret
If I died
Would you be there
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Things Undone
by Ken Ripley
Death comes in and steals away
Those things we want to do.
I could have built big bridges
Or molded the lives of men.
I could have climbed the ridges
Adventure offered again.
Ah, but what remains is true —
Death came in, and stole today.
For You
by Mackenzie Bilz
The one who drives me crazy
Yet still makes me feel safe
Although I scream and snap at you
You still put up with me.
It's an honor to be your girlfriend
Anybody else would agree
You're so much greener than a flag
And your generosity never ends.
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the mask slips
by Morgan Cockerham
I said I wanted quiet—
now I flinch when I get it.
There’s a hum in the silence
that sounds like regret,
but I don’t name it.
Not out loud.
I still walk like I’m untouchable.
Still flirt with ruin like it’s mine to keep.
But some nights, I miss softness
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villian arc
by Morgan Cockerham
I am the echo of your wants,
a whisper you can’t chase.
And when you reach for me,
I’m gone—like smoke you can't erase.
I've got some tricks tucked up my sleeve.
I've become someone I hate.
If you're drawn to pain, come closer—
I’ll hand you all my weight.
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In my youth I shot a bird
by Joe Cyr
(villanelle)
Once, in my youth, I shot a bird
The bullet box gave the warning
I was “range one mile” empowered
I owned a gun with bead sight forward
In birch-edged lea, alone one morning
Once, in my youth I shot a bird
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q u e t c h
by Rikske Kessner
q u e t c h
Tendril wafted dunes
of barren sands waffle,
swirl across mile
upon mile in every direction-
your face appears a horizon away,
there is little comfort found
in accompanying echoes.
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