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Best Sacrificed Poems

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


Premium Member Snow Globe
Welcome to my ----- life
A beautifully broken aura
             Unsettled flakes
   ...

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Categories: sacrificed, confusion, death, dream, future,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member listen to life -
have you not heard me?

borne upon the air at dusk, dancing ... I have whispered you in a million voices
    still, you...

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Categories: sacrificed, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bleeding Love
Introducing: Jan Allison & Poet Destroyer

Pierced by shards of shattered glass 
Deeper and deeper you stab me 
With lies and venomous words 
Dissecting my heart...

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Categories: sacrificed, abuse, anger, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Footprints
Frothy waves stretch to kiss toes
Hikers plodding sandy coasts
Leaving imprints on the shore

Who journeyed here, perhaps this morn
As the orange orb created dawn
Summoning sun worshipers

Footprints...

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Categories: sacrificed, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Tribute
Their mere weapon was their forbidden courage, hands barren with  no armaments, no ammunitions, marching towards the proud valley of death, dedication born from...

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Categories: sacrificed, appreciation, eulogy, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member We the People
We the People
Will disagree
On taxation and prosperity
On liberty and duty

We the People
Are every color of Christianity
Every Jewish prayer, every song of Islam
The puritans, the atheists...

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Categories: sacrificed, discrimination, freedom, history, society,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Dead Men Do Tell Tales
Dead Men Do Tell Tales

 I saw, the rot of sad, deep selfish desires,
 burning endlessly in clever fires
 Piles of cash a tall mountain...

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Categories: sacrificed, conflict, cry, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
Soft is the pillow beneath my head
as dread sweeps over the world
Haunting dreams with chilling screams
shrill as a lonely wind

Crisp and cool is the linen...

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Categories: sacrificed,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Saints and Demons On Halloween
On the eve of All Saints Day known as Halloween
We've a night where nothing is ever as it seems
 
Abraham, Martin and John hosted a...

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Categories: sacrificed, holiday
Form: Couplet
Soldier
I saw a burial with a bugler playing taps;
I turned to my father, “what happened?” I asked.
He clutched my hand and with a quiver in...

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© Ed Coet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sacrificed, death, father, inspirational, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Survival In the Midst of Ignorance
My prayers are not asking you to
 
save me from my enemy.
 
My children have turned their backs.
 
They praise dance with many
 
Adversaries-
 
When...

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Categories: sacrificed, analogy, spoken word, wisdom,
Form: Classicism
No Greater Love
For God so loved this sinful world, He gave us all His son;
That we might live with Him one day, when life on Earth is...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sacrificed, faith, happiness, hope, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Small Stain of Blood
an early morning rise,
up the stairs
walk into the bathroom 
in the sink
a small stain of blood.

less than a measure of yesterday 
pulling a baby out...

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Categories: sacrificed, child, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Christmas Miracle In the Ghetto (Co-Written With John Moses Freeman)
Peering at the radiating faces of happy families
So much joy emanates from well-to-do children’s sparkling eyes
Wish I could replace the grief, put smiles on the...

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Categories: sacrificed, family, holiday, hope, upliftingme,
Form: Narrative
Bloom Not, Wolfsbane
Bloom not, cruel wolfsbane
In this forward spirit of mine
Let the moon dim and wane
For love has diseased my kind 

The girl was luscious in the...

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Categories: sacrificed, adventure, angst, depression, devotion,
Form: Ballad

Book: Shattered Sighs