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Sacrificial Poems - Poems about Sacrificial

Premium Member While We Were Dying
While We Were Dying You cannot know what it is like Facing death at an early age. Too young to understand We were sacrificial. We held the hands of our dying young. Mere boys in their prime, diminished To gaunt, fear filled shadows Of their former vibrance. You looked away, we did not matter. You were fine, this did not touch...

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Categories: sacrificial, anger, death, grief, in
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sacrificial Lamb
Streaks of pallid moonlight wash over blood-stained burnt umber leaf blight. Glistening stainless steel remains within wilting noir roses and blistered blades of grass. Sickening hands shake my repose, heart racing, sure to collapse, feeling faint. A revolting nausea elevates, trying to find restraint, ...

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Categories: sacrificial, dark, gothic, halloween, horror,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Sacrificial Lamb
This was one of the first poems I wrote when new at Poetry Soup.com five years ago and I received a wonderful welcome from the lovely poetess Connie Marcum Wong. White daisy's in a wicker basket graced the tiny metal casket where his lifeless body now lay.. Family and friends wrought with grief shook their heads in disbelief, as he...

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Categories: sacrificial, america, angst, children,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sacrificial Salmon
Salmon thought he had a chance He felt it was his lucky day The giant would grab someone else enormous polar bear almost snatched Salmon's sister, so he Jumped into bear's clutches willing to sacrifice himself to save her...

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Categories: sacrificial, animal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sacrificial Lambs
Soldiers at war Boots in the mud Fought by the poor Paid for with blood Death on the fields Death from the sky Nobody yields Too many die...

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Categories: sacrificial, war,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Sacrificial Burn
“The Sacrificial Burn”, a very short story of a pyromaniac, who loved the Light too much. A writer’s journey. Perhaps it’s about life. Perhaps it’s about death. Perhaps it’s about the end of the world and wanting to take back time again. Perhaps it’s about ghosts. Perhaps it’s about becoming a ghost. Perhaps, as another...

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Categories: sacrificial, dark, light, love, muse,
Form: Narrative
Sacrificial Confusion
I wonder how many of us make the same blunder, Giving others permission to plunder, When we make sacrifices without number, That will one day give us a face like thunder, And a tongue that speaks kindly, no longer. Are we truly understanding, What is the nature of what we are sacrificing, When our own happiness we stop feeling, And all...

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Categories: sacrificial, analogy, baptism, blessing, celebration,
Form: Didactic
Agape Love, Loss, But Just a Blip On Eternity, Says Joe
Thanks to Father DeMino fir reminding me the world cannot bite off all our Jesus-kinda-Love. So here goes- "If you love sacrificially, you won't expect thanks and only lose a blip of Eternity." Deo Joe DeMino did add, "ouch for that blip" that got gobbled up mercilessly...

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Categories: sacrificial, abuse, bible, character, emotions,
Form: Monoku
The Resurrection of the Sacrificial Lamb
When Christ was resurrected from the tomb, sunrise broke the gloomy darkness and the heavy stone rolled away to let Him flee from the tomb of many sorrows; His father waited for Him to declare Him King of Heaven, that place so ethereal, watching the angels bow to the sacrificed Lamb and their song was loud and gleeful! The...

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Categories: sacrificial, birth, emotions, faith, fear,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Sacrificial Altars
When did business ethics find roots in science rather than re-connecting humane re-ligion? Thereby exempting, divorcing, earning a merely fair and acceptable free economic pass to continue extraction exploitation to build corporate empires divorced from religion's incorporated GoldenRule win/win ethics, Including family fair play of sacrificially co-redemptive moral values on altars of messianic bodhisattva sacred smoke and self/other co-reflective mirrors Meming little everyday issue miming, like don't neglect our long-term health care planet, Like take care...

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Categories: sacrificial, business, health, integrity, religion,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Sacrificial Lamb
flocks of sheep paused their grazing, looked up to speak to me, the bright moon kept watch, like a big farm dog, looking over a tall birch tree! I condoned with their bleating, of their inhuman suffering, heard their soul’s appeal! the green meadow fed them, from fresh goodness of its being, knowing too well, that this would be their last meal! Imagist poetry contest Brian Strand Written...

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Categories: sacrificial, animal, emotions, fate, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sacrificial Son
In a beautiful, suburban town,you got very down. My personal wish is God bring you back from a lockdown attack. You were caught in a time of confusion and fictional unrest. Where our minds are not honored as our bodies attest.  Having no counselor around, you did what you thought was sound. You are free of a disease children do...

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Categories: sacrificial, loss, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sacrificial Leaves of Autumn
One leaf follows another A lazy floating dance Last bit of a whirl Satisfactory ending Making way for future leaves Who will sprout out of fresh new buds...

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Categories: sacrificial, autumn, october,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Sacrificial Sun
I am being sacrificed on the altar of sun Color yellow sinks into my exposed skin Reaching my arteries pumping red blood Veins delivering back to the atmosphere Carbon dioxide with me melted in it Step by step I am disappearing slowly Becoming a patch of color yellow mixed With red that still has a taste of my blood On my dry...

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Categories: sacrificial, color, sun,
Form: Free verse
Sacrificial Lambs
Hiding their poison, colleges feign Promising sunshine, delivering rain Knowledge infected, politics vile Lambs to the slaughter —Athena defiled (Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2019)...

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Categories: sacrificial, truth,
Form: Rhyme

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