Best Self Immolation Poems
The Sun's Self ImmolationThe pale faced young damsel
By evening turned into a blushing bride
Her cheeks made red with rouge
And her lips glossed in cherry red
But the makeup artist, before
Seeing the magic of his deft touch
By some sudden mental derailment
In a bid at self immolation,
Set fire to himself
Badly...
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Categories:
self immolation, analogy, death, sky, sun,
Form:
Free verse
Delicate Embers of Self-ImmolationSwim my world.
Under shadows havoc cry
I bend this for you, pressing onto paper, a
Caravaggio dawn falling westward.
In madness beauty born, will thee watch the
Dark machine, its gears of blood slipping through the
Eternal art of madness, of war, of silence?
No more
On the rage of things that...
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Categories:
self immolation, conflict, memory, silence,
Form:
Free verse
Self ImmolationYou can destroy yourself
When you allow emotions rule you
Especially when you are being manipulated...
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Categories:
self immolation, confusion, emotions, humanity, life,
Form:
Free verse
For Aaron BushnellInevitably, tears of love, of sorrow,
tears that stem from my heart, flow
whenever I think of your sacrifice,
the ultimate payment of a high price.
You were a principled, brave man
who refused to budge from your plan,
one that would shake a nation, the world!
Watching the horror left my...
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Categories:
self immolation, courage, death, loss, love,
Form:
Sonnet