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Best Repentance Poems

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


The Gift of Repentance
Thank you Lord for drawing me near
     and opening my eyes to see;
The sin in which my heart was enslaved
 ...

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Categories: repentance, blessing, christian, freedom, growth,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Benevolence of Forgiveness
On troubled roads of life, when opposing sides collide,
Conflict of emotions clamors, agitating ego and pride,
While empathy warns: let forgiveness be your guide,
As benevolent angels,...

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Categories: repentance, forgiveness, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desperate Hope
While gelid breezes of winter, quiver emotions of decaying rays,
And arc of horizon cedes to dusk, evoking grimace of malaise,
Casting shadows tenebrous, shrouding glimmer of...

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Categories: repentance, hope, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jack
I saw him on the highway
Thought he was insane
Standing with his thumb out 
In the pouring rain
I don't usually stop for hitchhikers
But something said I...

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Categories: repentance, faith, life, mystery, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Legion of Doom
howling black wolves complain to new moon,
of devastation wrought by creatures!
different from rest in size and shape,
walk on two legs, strange hairless features!

in packs behind...

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Categories: repentance, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Ethereal Lanterns
As the holy season commemorates revelations of scriptures,
Sacred flame burning within, reinvigorates soul’s intellect,
Steering away from the fallible, toward realms of perfect,
Away from servitude of...

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Categories: repentance, inspirational, meaningful, uplifting,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Divine Magnetism
 In the manicured meadow 
of woeful weeds,
where hope sprouts amidst
forlorn fragrance of frozen seeds,
I dance to the hypnotic breeze,
hanging on saintly strings with
cosmic eyes,...

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Categories: repentance, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mad Molly Shaw
This is the story of mad Molly Shaw
She might be mad now but she wasn’t before
she came home to find her man dead on the...

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Categories: repentance, western,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Tell-Tale Heart- Twist On Poe
It wasn’t that I’d done you wrong
I'd welcomed you into my heart’s home
I'd cherished you
and I had fed you 
I'd protected you
I had let you...

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Categories: repentance, betrayal, love, murder,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Started a Joke - POTD
POTD 21 November 2017

So professional in his lies - So ruthless in his ambition
Feeding lies to the simple folk - convincing in his deception
Telling them...

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Categories: repentance, betrayal, corruption, grief, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Will You Be There
A day without thoughts
 another sleep without dreams.
A love filled heart beating slowly
 that holds love above all things.

My mind searches for repentance
 as love...

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Categories: repentance, friendship, hope, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stormy
I waded with a cross through sea beds
bone-dry now of torrential rains
from last night's summer storm
my arms carrying the boat to treeless banks

And heard whispers...

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Categories: repentance, longing, sad,
Form: Free verse
The Nature of Wisdom
Every flower has its own color
With annual observation,
this we springtime discover

Give a womb kernel cede
of acknowledgment
To the spectrum birthright
of each other

We are all one,
tho’ from...

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Categories: repentance, metaphor, nature, truth, wisdom,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Swaddled In Angel's Wings
"Life offers divine moments that can only be shared with an angel."
             ...

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Categories: repentance, angel, forgiveness,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member - Funeral -
~ some people find life unmerciful to live 
                ...

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Categories: repentance, dark, death, fantasy, farewell,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs