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Best Sacrifice Poems

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Premium Member A Father's Sacrifice
I loved you the first day
I saw those big brown eyes blinking,
taking in your first moments of life.
Not a tear nor a little scream,
you seemed...

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Categories: sacrifice, appreciation, dad, daughter,
Form: Prose



Premium Member A Tale of Fire and Ice
Part I: Ice

He shines like silver midnight moon -
cool marble statue, this tycoon.
And though he makes the ladies swoon,
of ice he’s hewn; of ice he’s...

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Categories: sacrifice, dream, fire, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member As Flowers Crumble Collaboration With Silent One
Lullabies through tear filled eyes
It's truly, love at first sight
The bond is forged and galvanized
To hold forever tight

Each time you needed a hand
She always had...

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Categories: sacrifice, love, mother son,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member This Spring the Poppies Bloomed
A field afire
papery petals glow like ruby votive candles
a collection of cupped solar flames
vowed to shine despite the dew before dawn
evaporating any doubt the sun...

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Categories: sacrifice, beauty, flower, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Giving Godly Grace
Grace-full is the lily born of virtue’s milk 
Inspiring me with petals pure in my hour of need -
Vow and vim of passion vivid and...

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Categories: sacrifice, appreciation, faith, god, jesus,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member Wordaholic
I want conversations 
with writers and poets
The wise the wacky 
the dark and the stoic 
I need to drink your words
I fear my disease is...

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Categories: sacrifice, addiction, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Epic Love For Women
I know you're not here

but you are in my heart 

so 

you are always with me

i'll just slip into you

with these words.
 
I know 
there...

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Categories: sacrifice, beauty, celebration, dream, heart,
Form: Epic
Premium Member In Celebration of Mothers
I celebrate wonderful mothers 
who always put the needs 
of their children first,
the single mothers who 
especially must sacrifice 
to help their children survive 
and...

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Categories: sacrifice, celebration, dedication, mothers day,
Form: Free verse
The Woman They Know
 Her smiles of valor encase her agony--
   her fiery scars pound against her sanity
    struggling in twisted ropes of...

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Categories: sacrifice, analogy, courage, hope, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rest
Rest now
O restless heart
released in ebb   to flow

ride the other side of the king tide rising
buoyant your movement in rise with the waves
Rise!...

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Categories: sacrifice, death, freedom, heaven, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Floating
The people of this world are like the three butterflies in front of a candle's flame.
The first one went closer and said:I know about love.
The...

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Categories: sacrifice, absence, analogy, discrimination, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member His Day Had Come
His day had come, and so He went and prayed.
The woes of all mankind upon him weighed.
His brethren slept; He knew what would befall.
His enemies...

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Categories: sacrifice, christian, easter,
Form: Rondeau
Soul of Seaside Sepulchre

When the 
seaside sepulchre 
of a kingdom, 
without its queen, 
is smeared with 
screams of lighting, 
I wish to crackle
these slivers 
of silver shakle, 
and...

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Categories: sacrifice, angst, betrayal, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Hiya's Words
 "There'll be a zealous zephyr 
    that isn't tamed by time; 
   I'll be the lunar princess, 
 ...

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Categories: sacrifice, appreciation, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
My Eyes
My eyes,
you traced the beauty of nature.
The starry sky and inky ocean,
smile of winter in the heavenly garden,
dancing of waterfall on the lap of hill
and...

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Categories: sacrifice, father, mother, wife, ,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs