Potential Titles: Forgive

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You have forever to forgive me - Anne Carly Abad "Rehearsal for When He Wakes"

Mornings to ask for favors and forgiveness - Carl Adamshick "Everything That Happens Can Be Called Aging"

The years don't forgive anyone - Julia Alvarez "In Spanish"

Forgive life for happening - Maya Angelou "Old Folks Laugh"

Forgiveness does not have an address - Raymond Antrobus "His Heart"

I am Death's bright arrow! Forgive me not! - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Get closer to forgiving - Sheila Black "The Earth"

Tastes like hope, memory, forgiveness - Catherine Bowman "Heart"

Nowhere close to forgiving - Julie Byrne "I Live Now as a Singer"

Know nothing of forgiveness - Rafael Campo "California"

Forgiveness was sitting in your kitchen when you got home - Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello "The Houseguest"

With a free forgiveness in his face - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Song of Lamech"

The smooth order of forgiveness - Henri Cole "Persimmon Tree"

Enters as a forgiven guest - Susan Comninos "Our Father, Our King"

Forgive me for an echo of these things - Hart Crane "Recitative"

Find forgiveness in the ancient light - Shutta Crum "Everything is Far"

Gave everyone a chance at forgiveness - Oliver de la Paz "In Defense of Small Towns"

Asking in advance to be forgiven - Stephen Dunn "A Card from Me to Me"

If forgiveness were botanical - Chiyuma Elliott "Tinder"

Forgiving clarities - Mari Evans "Celebration"

Forgive me not answering your knock - Robert Frost "The Housekeeper"

As the trees forgiving the books - Andrea Gibson "Good Light"

There is no forgiveness in the forest - Theodora Goss "The Fox Wife"

A capacity for love without forgiveness - Terrance Hayes "Snow for Wallace Stevens"

Bring our silent names there hoping we are forgiven - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"

In March you are forgiven - Conrad Hilberry "Letter to the North"

A cello forgiving one note as it goes - Jane Hirshfield "Zero Plus Anything Is a World"

Forgive these ravenous waves for demanding sacrifice - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"

And I will live long enough to forgive your folly - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"

Fists slow to open in forgiveness - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"

But don't forgive my hands - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

With the last good, forgiving, breeze - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"

So why are you compelled to forgive rivers? - Shannan Mann "In Hell"

And I forgive you hunger - Edgar Lee Masters "Samuel Butler Et Al."

Time is a debt that will never be forgiven us - Wes Matthews "Immortality"

Forgiven by the entire salt - Pablo Neruda "Brussels" translated by Donald D. Walsh

In a final color of forgiven autumn - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt

I can forgive the wind - January Gill O'Neil "The Blower of Leaves"

Forgive the flaws inherited - January Gill O'Neil "How to Make a Crab Cake"

Those hydrangeas that I call forgiveness - Carl Phillips "Permission to Speak"

Forgive yourself those tears - Lynn Powell "A Scherzo for Sadness"

Forgive my burning dreams - Geo. D. Prentice "Unhappy Love"

Runs on tactical forgiveness - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"

How the wind forgives the large blade swung through it - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"

How the blade forgives itself for being mishandled - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"

Forgive all limits of imagination - Ann K. Schwader "Void Flyers"

Wading into the river of forgiveness - Joyce Sidman "The River of Forgiveness"

Bathed the ruthless scythe with a forgiving fragrance - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Huguenot Fort"

That embalm the past in mute forgiveness - Carmen Sylva "A Room"

When mist has been forgiven - Edward Thomas "April"

Forgave me for existing - John Updike "Endpoint"

A forgiveness in me the size of eons - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

Forgive our ghosts - Derek Walcott "Steam"

Because I am unable to forgive - Simone White "the intimacies of what will be called our sacred alliance without history"

Unwillingness to forgive surrounding terrors - Simone White "the intimacies of what will be called our sacred alliance without history"

Hard to learn forgiving - John Greenleaf Whittier "Barclay of Ury"


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