Poems About Regret
#regret
Poetry about regret and remorse. These poems about regret take us on a painful journey, exploring mistakes, missed opportunities and feelings of guilt for failing to act. We all have regrets in life, whether we actually did something wrong, or have guilty feelings for something which was out of our control.
PoetSpeak
Poem Published
Yesterday 6:50pm
Yesterday 6:50pm
Don't Fall in Love With Me ( Redux )
I'm worth it
But there's a short stay rate
Like fast food
Good going down
But makes you sorry later on
Best to enjoy me in the moment
The road is calling
Let's drink to today
The beer is cold
And this cowboy is singing your song
But there's a short stay rate
Like fast food
Good going down
But makes you sorry later on
Best to enjoy me in the moment
The road is calling
Let's drink to today
The beer is cold
And this cowboy is singing your song
#love
#regret
#alcohol
#food
#philosophical
75 reads
22 Comments
Vampyre497
Poem Published
Yesterday 2:37pm
Yesterday 2:37pm
Entrepreneurial Suffering
Can I close the door | Can I scream a little more
Can I make myself sore | Can I bleed onto the floor
Can I run away | Help me keep him at bay
Can you save me, I'm a stray | Can you see that I'm in pain
Leave it all alone | Can't I please go home
God-dammit pick up the phone | Just leave it all alone
The epitome of this week | Is a drowning anger physique
Burning in this heat | I will fake it 'til I'm beat
Fight me, tease me, fuck me, kill me
Fight me, tease me, fuck me, kill me
Fight me, tease me,...
Can I make myself sore | Can I bleed onto the floor
Can I run away | Help me keep him at bay
Can you save me, I'm a stray | Can you see that I'm in pain
Leave it all alone | Can't I please go home
God-dammit pick up the phone | Just leave it all alone
The epitome of this week | Is a drowning anger physique
Burning in this heat | I will fake it 'til I'm beat
Fight me, tease me, fuck me, kill me
Fight me, tease me, fuck me, kill me
Fight me, tease me,...
#anger
#anxiety
#regret
#hate
#disappointment
20 reads
0 Comments
Her
Poem Published
Yesterday 12:10pm
Yesterday 12:10pm
Mistakes
Make you or break you
#regret
#boyfriend
#girlfriend
#breakup
#LifeChangingMoment
43 reads
2 Comments
Billy_Snagg
Snaggy
Snaggy
Poem Published
3rd Oct 2022 8:14pm
3rd Oct 2022 8:14pm
Circling Sharks...
(Billy Snagg / UnspokenReality)
I have climbed the highest peaks,
Plunged new depths of a vast ocean,
Trapped by whiteouts of a snowy squall -
Deep in its own devotion.
I have sought a sea of change,
While throwing caution to the wind.
I hedged my bets on gilt-edged bonds,
Wagering everything for what we had.
Was I wrong or right to choose,
To hide the turmoil from within,
To lay it down where a bounty is found -
This whirlwind frenzy, our cosmic void?
As I put my cards upon the table,
With rising...
I have climbed the highest peaks,
Plunged new depths of a vast ocean,
Trapped by whiteouts of a snowy squall -
Deep in its own devotion.
I have sought a sea of change,
While throwing caution to the wind.
I hedged my bets on gilt-edged bonds,
Wagering everything for what we had.
Was I wrong or right to choose,
To hide the turmoil from within,
To lay it down where a bounty is found -
This whirlwind frenzy, our cosmic void?
As I put my cards upon the table,
With rising...
#regret
#dark
#confusion #fear
#confusion #fear
51 reads
2 Comments
Grae
Bryan Gray
Bryan Gray
Bumped 3rd Oct 2022 7:09am
11th Aug 2022 6:28pm
11th Aug 2022 6:28pm
victoria
the sky
hung there a jaundice yellow
and your eyes
were distant stars
and the world didn't seem to matter very much anymore
just cigarette ash
drifting on the breeze
when i learned i'd never see you again...
maybe with a better mind
i would have known how to tell you how i feel
bare my heart all autumn leaf orange and valentine red
every poem i write for you
does no justice
silverlake is empty
you're a beautiful person ...
hung there a jaundice yellow
and your eyes
were distant stars
and the world didn't seem to matter very much anymore
just cigarette ash
drifting on the breeze
when i learned i'd never see you again...
maybe with a better mind
i would have known how to tell you how i feel
bare my heart all autumn leaf orange and valentine red
every poem i write for you
does no justice
silverlake is empty
you're a beautiful person ...
#sadness
#love
#regret #heartbroken
#regret #heartbroken
205 reads
13 Comments
Green_Arrow
Poem Published
1st Oct 2022 10:57pm
1st Oct 2022 10:57pm
As A Result Of Going To A Motorcycle Gang's Party
Daphne saw an
Outlaws tattoo
inked behind the
right shoulder.
Outlaws tattoo
inked behind the
right shoulder.
#regret
#fiction
#FreeVerse
#shame
#dialogue
31 reads
0 Comments
Nodrax_tepes
nodrax
nodrax
Poem Published
30th Sep 2022 12:31pm
30th Sep 2022 12:31pm
Free fall
I remember the night at bar tinkerbell
She slapped me twice I ain't never seen a woman wreak havoc and hell
Arrows shot straight to the heart she didn't miss she must have been dating William tale
I got a tale to tell I posted it in your mail
I'm never open usually closed as a veil
Im a poet I hope you can tell
I grieve through the ink my mouth is the holy grail
And each word I say may to take you to heaven and put you in a love shell
I don't want to fail
You left me frail
I hurt you so many times the same I made you happy you could flip a...
She slapped me twice I ain't never seen a woman wreak havoc and hell
Arrows shot straight to the heart she didn't miss she must have been dating William tale
I got a tale to tell I posted it in your mail
I'm never open usually closed as a veil
Im a poet I hope you can tell
I grieve through the ink my mouth is the holy grail
And each word I say may to take you to heaven and put you in a love shell
I don't want to fail
You left me frail
I hurt you so many times the same I made you happy you could flip a...
#love
#regret
#breakup
#conflict
#UnrequitedLove
15 reads
0 Comments
Malibu7
Poem Published
29th Sep 2022 4:23pm
29th Sep 2022 4:23pm
White Sapphire
Somewhere in Toledo
is a trash can
and somewhere in it
is a ring
and somewhere in its band
is a promise I made that if I stopped feeling it
I’d tell you
so I’m sorry that I didn’t.
I used to imagine situations
of all the trips
we still planned to take together.
Ones where maybe
me dropping your stuff off at school
wouldn’t have been the last time I saw you.
is a trash can
and somewhere in it
is a ring
and somewhere in its band
is a promise I made that if I stopped feeling it
I’d tell you
so I’m sorry that I didn’t.
I used to imagine situations
of all the trips
we still planned to take together.
Ones where maybe
me dropping your stuff off at school
wouldn’t have been the last time I saw you.
#love
#regret
#breakup #bittersweet
#breakup #bittersweet
36 reads
1 Comment
tell_me_wy
Poem Published
29th Sep 2022 1:17am
29th Sep 2022 1:17am
Whisky
A quick counter-clockwise flick
On the cap of the bottle of Maker’s;
Damn thing lands on the floor;
Suppose that’s bound to happen
When you’re already two drinks in,
Generous with the fingers…
Four?
But the afternoon has yet
To slink down into evening,
And I’ve not labored nearly enough yet
Over my incessant regrets;
I spin the cap back, and
Watch the ice bobbing on
An amber sea,
Two fingers deep;
The Titanic, and her charges,
Died in glorious, dark and brutal history,
...
On the cap of the bottle of Maker’s;
Damn thing lands on the floor;
Suppose that’s bound to happen
When you’re already two drinks in,
Generous with the fingers…
Four?
But the afternoon has yet
To slink down into evening,
And I’ve not labored nearly enough yet
Over my incessant regrets;
I spin the cap back, and
Watch the ice bobbing on
An amber sea,
Two fingers deep;
The Titanic, and her charges,
Died in glorious, dark and brutal history,
...
#regret
#alcohol
70 reads
3 Comments
Opentotheskies
Poem Published
23rd Sep 2022 8:26pm
23rd Sep 2022 8:26pm
Things
When she thinks of all the things
Things that dont matter now
Strange times for her indeed
....of how she tattooed her own skin
Drank her face into oblivion
Used the fixing to imagine more
Back when
...in recent history lessons weren't learnt
Then
Her life circles around to the start once again
She finds there's nothing new, especially you
Just the recycled pain of missed opportunity
A personality disorder
Built to order
Fashioned to act out the indifference surrounding
Finding that strong...
Things that dont matter now
Strange times for her indeed
....of how she tattooed her own skin
Drank her face into oblivion
Used the fixing to imagine more
Back when
...in recent history lessons weren't learnt
Then
Her life circles around to the start once again
She finds there's nothing new, especially you
Just the recycled pain of missed opportunity
A personality disorder
Built to order
Fashioned to act out the indifference surrounding
Finding that strong...
#sadness
#regret
#aging
62 reads
2 Comments
Chuck
Chuck Todd
Chuck Todd
Poem Published
23rd Sep 2022 1:03pm
23rd Sep 2022 1:03pm
Who Can Fix This Broken Soul
It’s seventy one degrees
But when I awake
It’s forty three
The temperature I feel
No longer my blood flows
Fully
Throughout my body
My heart is broken
It still pumps
But slowly
My life
Is cold and dreary
My future
Is bleak
If I continue to
Run people
Away from me
Lonely
Will be read
On my
Little obituary
The reasons why
I chose to leave
Bury my personal items
In the yard
No longer
Home to me
Disappear from others
Whom….
Has already forgotten...
But when I awake
It’s forty three
The temperature I feel
No longer my blood flows
Fully
Throughout my body
My heart is broken
It still pumps
But slowly
My life
Is cold and dreary
My future
Is bleak
If I continue to
Run people
Away from me
Lonely
Will be read
On my
Little obituary
The reasons why
I chose to leave
Bury my personal items
In the yard
No longer
Home to me
Disappear from others
Whom….
Has already forgotten...
#sadness
#regret
#FeelingLost #emptiness
#FeelingLost #emptiness
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0 Comments
thinlane
Poem Published
22nd Sep 2022 2:36pm
22nd Sep 2022 2:36pm
A Life Gone By
I've lived a life
That's been hardly worth living
There have been no real
Worthwhile discoveries
Or enlightening moments
Plenty of sadness and anxiety
But no happiness that touched
My heart so deeply
That my eyes shone like the sun
It grates on me
And pushes me low
To look back and see nothing
Only to turn to the future
And see less
On my horizons
That's been hardly worth living
There have been no real
Worthwhile discoveries
Or enlightening moments
Plenty of sadness and anxiety
But no happiness that touched
My heart so deeply
That my eyes shone like the sun
It grates on me
And pushes me low
To look back and see nothing
Only to turn to the future
And see less
On my horizons
#regret
#emptiness
53 reads
2 Comments
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