Courage Sacrifice Poems

Duty calls from valleys deep and wide,
Wide like hearts where brave resolve does bide.
Bide the storms, through fire and endless rain,
Rain of trials met with...

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Rushing into the battlefield with all the might,
No turning back, fighting for what is right.
For the country, for the motherland,
Those hundreds for thousands, with rifles...

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In every dawn that breaks anew,
In every dream, and skies of blue,
A woman’s strength, steadfast and true,
Guides the world in all we do.
Through ages past...

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I’ll be here right beside you 
in the darkness when you call.
I’ll be the one who makes sure 
that the last leaf doesn’t fall.

I’ll be...

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Broken Sacrifice?

Left as a sacrifice 
Bound in chains her only shield from the elements 
A  cloak lined in ermine and rabbit fur 
Keeping her...

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In the agora or out on the street
Wherever public figures I did meet
In conversation I loved to engage
Only to find my  questions would enrage
I...

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I lost myself in reaching for the sky,
I buried my dreams in shadows nearby,
I rejected myself at a remarkable dawn,
I found myself when you were...

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Sacrifice

Today I sacrifice my martyrdom. 
Today I cleanse my soul, 
Release the past and reach for the new. 
I'll look for the life I'm entitled...

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...Since that day there has been a cross
perched high atop the bluff,
and when the town grew up they thought
they should show him their love.
That’s how...

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...A warrior shrieked, pitched sideways,
bled when he hit the ground,
the Apache spurred their horses,
looking to flank around.
But John expected such a thig,
he looked right and...

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You see that there? That’s Sinter’s Cross,
on the bluff by the stream,
a cross has stood there with his name
since eighteen eighty-three.
That was the year John...

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My mind has been spinning, since toxin contamination
I have been caught in a web of deception and corruption
Searching the landscape, for words to describe this...

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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...

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He could so easily have walked away
Instead he took the hard choice to stay
After all he endured through thick and thin
He refused to bow to...

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Mamma, what a lovely angel you are
Before I came into this world you carried
Me for nine gruelling months,
Morning sickness and throw-ups
Is what I gave when...

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