Regrets

A Poem by Pete

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. - Thoreau

pounding asphalt

combing outer banks

searching backwoods

pulling down folded stairs

querying mind's google

breathing qualms and trepidations in scratch and sniffs

asking what if's

crimes forever unsolved

matters unresolved

hearing, "we're" sorry" from a hung jury without hearing the smack of a gavel declaring fault

© 2025 Pete

Author's Note

"Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest." - Thoreau

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Added on November 7, 2025
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Author

Pete

Boston, MA

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I love reading, writing, music, nature, God and feeling emotion, not necessarily in that order. To me, these things go hand in hand. My favorite writer is Henry David Thoreau. I think he was a geni.. more..