Best Forgiving Poems

(Lights dim, single spotlight illuminates the speaker, dressed in simple attire. Voice starts trembling, building in intensity)

Can forgiveness mend
a childhood, mine 
fractured in the dark? 
Where the scars are a map, inked 
not just in flesh 
but deeper in my skin? The cold
hard floor remembered...

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Forgiveness is a reed, bending in the wind
A harvested fruit tree, bearing fruit again
A forest consumed by fire, thankful it's been thinned
But most of all forgiveness is the ultimate revenge




  an original poem by Daniel Turner...

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Falling out with either
Friends or family can
Flood hearts with resentment,
Fuelling rage and hatred.
Forbear from stoking fire.
Find fair reconcilement.
Forgiveness sets you free.

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Contest: Pleiades - F
Sponsor: Kim Merryman
Placed 4th...

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We have seen the need for self-forgiveness.
A cluster strengthens in the air quite fast.
Oil-painted clouds poised over the liveness.
We have grasped the need for self-forgiveness.
Creating a scrumptious safe, quaint witness.
We all forge faults, yet beware of clouds blast.
We have seen the need for self-forgiveness.
A cluster strengthens...

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BROKEN-HEARTED, BUT FORGIVING

I have two grandchildren whom I've not seen
In a period nearing three years
I look at their pictures every day
And it reduces me to tears

Their mother and father flatly refuse 
Any contact with them at all
Since the untimely death of my wife
Not even a...

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Some serious religious sophomores claim Christ ('Witness' Bluff)
Almost like Columbus: to hit the Other, take their STUFF

Nothing Doing here; I am a Minister of Jesus' Gospel
For the same Reason they fled HERE to Native Indian lands

Catholics to Lord Baltimore's Maryland, Puritans to Massachusetts;
Persecuted Quakers to...

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*Image of Forgiveness by Pixabay.

Tale of the Forgiving Betold

Albeit a notable stretch
that stars wouldst a fairer 
share of thee and sheath
thy warm expanse.

Sire, alack thy humble
servant beseech thee,
me Lord, for wouldst
thee taketh to mind
thoust faileth thee but
'tis once at the weest hour.

Shouldst thou beg 
the...

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*Image of Forgiveness by Pixabay.

Tale of a Forgiving Challenge

Albeit a notable stretch
that stars wouldst a fairer 
share of thee and sheath
thy warm expanse.

Sire, alack thy humble
servant beseech thee,
me Lord, for wouldst
thee taketh to mind
thoust failed thee but
'tis once a wee hour.

Shouldst thou beg 
the goddesses...

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Forgiving The Unforgivable.
 
I held my peace and sung a song,
that echoed through the righteous hall,
my right, my truth, all put to wrong!
As judgment fine had met the pall.
 
How can there be a better way,  
to tell the world of foul play,
than those,...

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How hard it is to forgive.
How hard to forgive
those who have trespassed
 against us.

Harder yet
to forgive those
we ourselves
have trespassed against....

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FORGIVING YOU!

I know my love it is time for me to forgive,
For it was not your fault that you had to leave,
It's your time to be with the lord, I know I will see you again,

I  have been angry, sad and feeling alone, 
You...

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How to forgive yourself is hard for me
I am trying to stop him so I can be free
Where is your forgiveness to rescue me
You can ask God to take you home
Or you can sit and suffer and be alone
Forgiveness comes from the heart 
Letting it...

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Forgiving Isn’t Forgetting
Written: by Tom Wright
7-25-2016

We’ve oft times said that we forgive,
But reflections, we frequently retain.
We methodically bring back to relive,
As if emblazoned within our brain;

Hopefully, forgiveness comes in time,
For things which we hold in reserve;
While we feel subjected to a crime,
That’s often better than...

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I never asked you for anything
    n’ you never asked for it back
 found unknowing when the going was green
       I still have problems with that

 Venus, Apollo, your good self and I
   ...

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Magnanimous

Noble character—
With a greatness of spirit!
Never vindictive . . . 
	Generous and forgiving . . . 
High-minded and always just!

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
December 22, 2018 (Tanka)...

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