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Best Forgiveness Poems

Below are the all-time best Forgiveness poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of forgiveness poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Forgiveness
As dawn would bring no daylight without dark
empty night; the clearest day no beauty hold
without the dreary rainstorm's dismal mark.
As spring would bring no rebirth...

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Categories: forgiveness,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Wind From the Sea
Inspired by Andrew Wyeth Watercolor Painting -- Wind From the Sea, 1947




Standing in the old house
A strange mixture of feelings erupt within me
My roommates Depression,...

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Categories: conflict, depression, forgiveness, hope,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member tell the night to hold me -
I made for you, a castle
but I built it in the sand
I steadfastly tried
to constrain the tide
but the bastions didn't stand

I planned for you, an...

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Categories: forgiveness, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Your Judas Like Tan
""Child's Play""

You go down like rain,
A wishing star in disguise, 
You scream bloody murder 
-the perfect two-face disgrace
Your lips forever stain and reside with Benedict...

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Categories: forgiveness, betrayal, change, conflict, daughter,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Flight To Midnight
O albatross guide my loosed soul  
from the shipwreck seized by sandy shoal

persuasive Polar Star in quiet pull
a sailor’s tired eyes gone dark 
I...

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Categories: angel, beauty, death, forgiveness,
Form: Verse



Sweet Jesus
On the day our eyes open to the prism of the sun

On that day, Winter solitude  would be gone

The avalanche of differences melts into...

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Categories: blessing, easter, forgiveness, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Gifts of the Fourth Chakra
Wild spirit -
I cherished you tender 
within my halo of prana;
careful not to hurt you
as I worked to set you free
using hands of peace
in harmony...

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Categories: forgiveness, freedom, growth, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forgive and Forget
I asked you what I have done wrong
But there is no response - just a stony silence
No words can convey my guilt, my inner sadness

This...

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Categories: forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Repent and Believe
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  Up until the summer of 1999, I only knew of the words "Jesus."
  I knew what was being taught in church.
 ...

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Categories: bible, christian, forgiveness, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Hourglass Wears Wings
In shadow 'neath the shining of a soul 
a heart trembles
for her lost 
control.
Hope 
lives 
in Him
who forgives
trespass and sin
as flight with Mercy’s angel does...

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Categories: angel, death, faith, forgiveness,
Form: Tetractys
Premium Member Ode To the Redwood
I was once a little twig with dreams of being a mighty tree
So people would come from all around just to look at me
As the...

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Categories: forgiveness, friendship, imagination, life,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Don'T Throw Me Away
You look at me so uninviting;
I may have some missing teeth, stumble when I walk, bout' to FALL!!!
Stutter when I talk, but yet I'll still...

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Categories: forgiveness, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, caregiving,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member Stand By Me
Stand by me when your dreams might fail,
And the burning light of your plans grows pale.
Stand by me when the world is cruel,
When they shake...

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Categories: devotion, forgiveness, friend, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Can We Be Strangers
the holes in the walls are all patched
and the plaster is dry
the broken glass is swept away
or turned to sand

I only want that when I...

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: divorce, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Who Silence the Silent One
On a reminiscing of a poet I thought I would make a call
 
But on searching for this name sake I was left appalled

The name...

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Categories: forgiveness, absence, abuse, bullying, endurance,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things