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Best Self Immolation Poems


Premium Member The Sun's Self Immolation
The 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
Premium Member Delicate Embers of Self-Immolation
Swim 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 Immolation
You 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

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



For Aaron Bushnell
Inevitably, 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

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry