Best Self Sacrifice Poems

his
finger 
was firmly
stuck in the hole
stopping Netherlands from going under

fact or is it fiction hope Mary* knows 
little dutch boy
perceived haste 
blocking
dyke

used
sense ...yet
did not know
finger in  hole
would through history grow to greater lengths

* Mary Mapes Dodge  The American Writer.

penned 8 July 2016

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She might have painted the sea—
or a golden field of wheat
beneath a hazy summer sky—
but he took her brushes,
left the bristles splayed,
the paints dried out,
and the turpentine cloudy.
And though she said nothing,
her easel disappeared one day
like a wispy cloud no one missed.
After that,
she painted nothing...

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What’s the purpose of life?  For our fellow-man’s sake.
I am willing to do this.  Please make no mistake.
But a thought comes to mind
of a troublesome kind:
For whose sake will the others live?  What is your take?...

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