Best Penitence Poems

In love’s limited life 
Equal are my losses and gains 
I’ve gained some tear’s drops  in eyes
And peace for ever lost

Some wishes still remain to be met
Some tears that I’ve not yet shed
My heart still some stories keeps
That could not ever come to my...

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Father Father bless me
I bear a burden of sin
sin a heavy block of tin
pray God thee
I need break free
from the evil bondage
I've in been from early age

Father I'm the little mouse
a squatter in the mission house
My heart is full of mischief
I'm that wanted thief
who operates...

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In love’s limited life 
Equal are my losses and gains 
I’ve gained some tear’s drops  in eyes
And peace for ever lost

Some wishes still remain to be met
Some tears that I’ve not yet shed
My heart still some stories keeps
That could not ever come to my...

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A hunter boy born to God fearing parents
Was taught from his very early childhood;
Failure to attend church on Sundays needed penitence
As it was an act of defying God and dishonoring His parenthood
The boy faithfully took the advice to his heart
		
But his fad for hunting was...

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In penitence I bow down to his throne,
head bowed in shame, heart heavy with my sin.
My sobbing whispers heard by God alone
as I recount the ways my faith wears thin.
He gives a heart of flesh, and ears to hear,
for he who seeks the Lord will...

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painting: The Penitent Peter  by El Greco

In penitence I kneel before your throne,
  head bowed with shame, heart weighed down with sin,
  my sobbing whispers heard only by God 
  recounting the ways I, like a sheep, have gone astray.

When I...

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The first time that I cut myself, 
I heard my mother distraught,
My father in denial, my sister
Blaming herself and my brother 
Barely moving.

The second time that I cut myself,
I pictured a perfect day,  a perfect 
life. I pictured a grassland, a home
In between, smooth,...

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Penance

A thousand souls queue 
outside his confessional while
he scans the cards of sins.
How many
Hail Marys, Our Fathers,
rosaries will be
dealt today?

Wisely dispensed devotions
from behind the brown curtain,
the shadow grid,
will part God’s pearly gates
for a penitent multitude.

I’m at the back of the line
and worry I’ll not make...

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Love + me will always = pain.

Disappointments and knowledge are the results I gain.

Mending gradually yet the heart remains the same.

Closets are filled to capacity with no vacancy to place the blame.

I hate myself, this flesh never seems to redeem.

Outward appearances capture strangers' eyes; their...

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I hated you.
God I gave myself every reason to hate you.
Even though they weren’t real,
But at the same time I’d do anything for you.
Sometimes it’s more like I want to kill you,
But I would always kill for you.
We’ve only got each other,
And that’s always going...

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Poetically I'm in my feelings,
Wanting to be chastised by you.
The scars left behind,
 signed by you.
Fingernails and lip prints
Moans barely audible; 
whispers of you.
Cream, and for 
ovation 
ingredients of you.
My sin needs your 
religion.
I'd follow you.
Saving grace
lying in wait
to taste 
the undoing of your fate
embraced...

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I went there at my own risk,
Destiny played an ugly trick.

Whirling like Eddies,
Tough and the unsteadies.

An unknown fear,
Nothing is that easier.

I haven’t played yet,
Time has no reversal gate .

So terrifying and disturbing ,
No end to these struggling.

Hearing a divine voice,
Echoes you and your choice.

Entered into...

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What never was rued when was said, 
And even what no one did say 
When strangely did hurt them today, 
Fire in love had to show its red. 
When stirring heart was laid afore, 
And words of lips sweet nothing said, 
But wispy eyes vaguely...

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