Regret Poems

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Goodbye
by Amelia Pond

I meant to say goodbye to you
before you left and went elsewhere
somehow I never got the chance
so I watch you walk away

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a note from the netherworld
by Miki Vermeulen

The overwhelming feeling of panic and regret
before my eyes fell forever,
was the worst pain imaginable.

You couldn’t see it then
but there was happiness in the shadows
and love on its way to you.

The world was sending you laughter and smiles,
you had so much life to live.

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2 Dollars on the 6 Horse to Show
by Thomas Case

I sleep with my glasses,
so, I can see in my dreams
the moment you left me,
it's all part of the scene.
So, the jockeys, they need me.
I know they will bleed me.
And it's 2 dollars on the
6 horse to show.

The buzzards and seagulls,

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by J. J.

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if 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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Recent Regret Poems
a note from the netherworld
by Miki Vermeulen

The overwhelming feeling of panic and regret
before my eyes fell forever,
was the worst pain imaginable.

You couldn’t see it then
but there was happiness in the shadows
and love on its way to you.

The world was sending you laughter and smiles,
you had so much life to live.

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stitched scars
by shreya p.

From the time when we were first held in their arms to times where we were showered in hugs and kisses,
Moments where we held onto their finger for our first tiny steps, till the scream of excitement when we called out their name.
They were there for all our birthdays and when we fell off our bicycles and couldn’t stop crying.
When we got sick they’d stay up till 4 in the morning so we felt safe and oh how could I forget all those monsters under the bed they fought against.

They slept next to us when we had nightmares and read us bed time stories, or some from when they themselves were our age.
They sent us to an expensive private school and bought books and pens that we liked.
Lessons for the future, laughs and giggles while playing house or attending little tea parties wearing the earrings we made.
They taught us all those nursery rhymes, how to swim and more, the way to our house and their phone numbers if we needed it any more.
For emergencies they said, now it’s stuck in my head but the number isn’t valid.

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Mistakes
by Kam N

my mistakes are all you remember
my mistakes are why you're gone
my mistakes are all i am
but my love for you was never wrong.
no matter when said or when done,
my love for you was true.

regret is the only feeling i possess
i regret that i didn't do more
regret that i didn't hold you closer

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For Paul -- most of all
by Alex Rose

For Paul, most of all
I thought it would have been different
The flagrant, fragrant flouting of the norms he never cared for
The holiest and sacred of the forms he could not dare for

For Paul, least of all
Was there reason to worry
A fenced in recluse, iconoclast isolated by his own designs
The hermetic chamber ranger, ranged in a chamber while losing his mind


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Sandcastles
by Mia Macias

A group of three is highly vulnerable to life, as a tripod camera is bound to tip over and shatter upon removal of any single leg. What remains is a stand of 2 legs, deemed easily disposable by any onlooker.

One day, a tripod's worst nightmare fatefully manifested and so three became two.

But to fatalistics, two is perceived only as 1 + 1, and upon the removal of one, there would equal only one. And thus, perception of our existence became an easily disposable one. Life was swept by the clumsy winds of fate, the same palm-rustling and wave-trashing breeze still heard in the dark beneath shut eyes today. The breeze which shook two in the midst of grief as they lay back to “sleep” after life swerved to a sideroad

Away from next-day good mornings and future goodnights, which were tragically spared that bad night. Driven without control over any wheel, away from the crossroads, where I see she still lies asleep each passing day. Growing smaller, and smaller with time. And where I still lie, to myself that 1 + 1 = 2 and not 3.

Where mothers of happier families fantasize about children who will one day have their own children, who may certainly live to see the children of those children.


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    J. J. (3 poems about Regret)
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    deepak haridas (1 poems about Regret)
    Sep 1986 - India
  • Naomi Lumba
    Naomi Lumba (1 poems about Regret)
    February 26, 2002 - Zambia
  • Matilde Cameira
    Matilde Cameira (1 poem about Regret)
    August 31, 2000 - Porto, Portugal
  • Soumalya Chatterjee
    Soumalya Chatterjee (1 poem about Regret)
    March 27, 2003, WB, INDIA.. An amateur writer. Emotional. Depressed. Write poems doing the pen in my own blood.
  • Asmita De
    Asmita De (1 poem about Regret)
    November 24, 2004-India
  • Tristin Livingston
    Tristin Livingston (1 poem about Regret)
    June 7, 2001 - California
  • Abena Gyamfua Aboagye
    Abena Gyamfua Aboagye (1 poem about Regret)
    May 24, 2005-Kumasi
  • Thomas Case
    Thomas Case (1 poems about Regret)
    Oxnard California November 10, 1966
  • Mishack Madubandlela
    Mishack Madubandlela (1 poems about Regret)
    August 10, 2000 - Barberton, Mpumalanga, South Africa