Poems about Sacrifice
#sacrifice
Poems about sacrifice, poetry about giving up something important or denying your own needs, putting others peoples' needs before your own. Also poems about offering a devotional sacrifice, and dark or spiritual poems about sacrificial killing.
cabcool
Poem Published
7th Jun 2023 4:24pm
7th Jun 2023 4:24pm
i am an isthmus
a sonnet
“If you want to be a bridge of hope to the world,
you’ve got to allow yourself to be walked on.”—Tommy Barnett
before me flies the great unfettered future,
behind me sleeps the bruised and battered past;
i am an isthmus of life's great encounter,
at once reflection, presence, and forecast.
i am quick ink to all the generations
that seed the planet with the hope of spring;
the genesis of nascent revelations,
i am an isthmus of the apron string.
old gold behind, fresh silver in the offing, ...
“If you want to be a bridge of hope to the world,
you’ve got to allow yourself to be walked on.”—Tommy Barnett
before me flies the great unfettered future,
behind me sleeps the bruised and battered past;
i am an isthmus of life's great encounter,
at once reflection, presence, and forecast.
i am quick ink to all the generations
that seed the planet with the hope of spring;
the genesis of nascent revelations,
i am an isthmus of the apron string.
old gold behind, fresh silver in the offing, ...
#LifeStruggles
#inspirational
#earth
#nature
#sacrifice
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CrazyPrincess_Chlo
Poem Published
6th Jun 2023 3:16am
6th Jun 2023 3:16am
A Child's Sacrifice
The sickle in my little hand,
is sharp enough to cut flesh...
Down to the bone, if needed.
Sacrifices for the gods of the land!
Blood, to water the soil, and more.
I do it by the gods' command...
the earth cries out to me afresh.
They foolishly never heeded!
The sickle in my little hand...
is brought down on bound neck,
Snuffing a grown sinner's spark.
One who sinned against the land!
Now they perish, unto their core.
They die by the gods' command...
Insignificant as the puniest speck.
Now they dwell in the outer...
is sharp enough to cut flesh...
Down to the bone, if needed.
Sacrifices for the gods of the land!
Blood, to water the soil, and more.
I do it by the gods' command...
the earth cries out to me afresh.
They foolishly never heeded!
The sickle in my little hand...
is brought down on bound neck,
Snuffing a grown sinner's spark.
One who sinned against the land!
Now they perish, unto their core.
They die by the gods' command...
Insignificant as the puniest speck.
Now they dwell in the outer...
#dark
#scary
#pagan
#sacrifice
#horror
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scalesofascorpion
Poem Published
31st May 2023 12:12pm
31st May 2023 12:12pm
Vessel
Thunder and lightning empower me
consume me on this altar of divinity
like rivers my essence rushes from me
invigorating me as you cling to my shaking thighs
Iridium laced in my blood I'll set you free
bind me to the stone I'll be your offering
engraving in a dagger may your blade strike deep
enrapture me my crippled heart can't leave
you now
The venom in my veins creeps like a hearse
consume me let my pain become your curse
feel my demons as they thank you for your worst
this icy tomb will cover up your skin in...
consume me on this altar of divinity
like rivers my essence rushes from me
invigorating me as you cling to my shaking thighs
Iridium laced in my blood I'll set you free
bind me to the stone I'll be your offering
engraving in a dagger may your blade strike deep
enrapture me my crippled heart can't leave
you now
The venom in my veins creeps like a hearse
consume me let my pain become your curse
feel my demons as they thank you for your worst
this icy tomb will cover up your skin in...
#love
#sacrifice
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CanDyFloss_72Monet
Poem Published
31st May 2023 5:04am
31st May 2023 5:04am
Laid to rest
Fumble fall and hit your submissive,vacuous head.
Watch words leave the cemetery,in which your body
was laid to rest.
Watch words leave the cemetery,in which your body
was laid to rest.
#TruthOfLife
#redemption
#morality #sacrifice
#morality #sacrifice
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poetOftragedy
Poem Published
27th May 2023 9:59pm
27th May 2023 9:59pm
To the life I never lived
To the life I never lived
The dreams I buried deep within
The paths I shunned away
The choices I couldn't keep
The secrets I had to keep
And the lie I had to live.
The love I have sacrificed
The hope I have chastised
The joy I never tasted
In pain, I paid the price
The words I swallowed down
The songs I silenced out
The jokes I hid behind a frown
The words that never fell from my mouth
In silence I wore the crown.
To the life I never lived
The chances I let go
The risks I was too...
The dreams I buried deep within
The paths I shunned away
The choices I couldn't keep
The secrets I had to keep
And the lie I had to live.
The love I have sacrificed
The hope I have chastised
The joy I never tasted
In pain, I paid the price
The words I swallowed down
The songs I silenced out
The jokes I hid behind a frown
The words that never fell from my mouth
In silence I wore the crown.
To the life I never lived
The chances I let go
The risks I was too...
#LifeStruggles
#SelfReflection
#despair
#suffering
#sacrifice
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drinkingflux
mila throat
mila throat
Poem Published
15th May 2023 9:34pm
15th May 2023 9:34pm
[WIP]
the pulp of an orange
twisting like a labyrinthine
tear my carpels apart
consume my pericarp
tenuous chiffon, unveil me
rip me from my seams
pick out the loose threads
something you'll never mend
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.
.
.
(when i first got together with
my partner, it was hard for me
i was unused to feeling
the rawness and reality of love.
so quickly i became obsessed
with that idea and i felt afraid.
i didn't want him to leave me
and the only type of love...
twisting like a labyrinthine
tear my carpels apart
consume my pericarp
tenuous chiffon, unveil me
rip me from my seams
pick out the loose threads
something you'll never mend
.
.
.
.
.
.
(when i first got together with
my partner, it was hard for me
i was unused to feeling
the rawness and reality of love.
so quickly i became obsessed
with that idea and i felt afraid.
i didn't want him to leave me
and the only type of love...
#patience
#FirstLove
#sacrifice #obsession
#sacrifice #obsession
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Lack1ng
Poem Published
14th May 2023 8:35am
14th May 2023 8:35am
my sister got a motorcycle
I hear the rumble of an engine.
Of a two-wheeled road demon,
That defies logic and safety.
A trolley, carrying
Dopamine and adrenaline
To an addict experiencing withdrawals.
I remember the smile plastered on her face,
White and black patterns traipsing across a jacket,
Most of all,
How excited she was to tell me about it.
I’m scared for my little sister,
And I'll never let her know.
Because who am I to steal such joy,
From the people I hold close.
But I won’t lie and say,
I don’t feel a pang of...
Of a two-wheeled road demon,
That defies logic and safety.
A trolley, carrying
Dopamine and adrenaline
To an addict experiencing withdrawals.
I remember the smile plastered on her face,
White and black patterns traipsing across a jacket,
Most of all,
How excited she was to tell me about it.
I’m scared for my little sister,
And I'll never let her know.
Because who am I to steal such joy,
From the people I hold close.
But I won’t lie and say,
I don’t feel a pang of...
#sacrifice
#fear
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Whitefeather
Poem Published
13th May 2023 00:56am
13th May 2023 00:56am
Gnarled roots
In the night, as I lay in bed,
Both sweet dreams and nightmares tread,
One brings comfort, the other dread,
A swirling vortex in my head.
I dream of a world without despair,
One with love and justice everywhere,
Where all are equal, without a care,
And kindness flows like gentle air.
But nightmares come, with gnarled roots,
Twisted tendrils, like toxic shoots,
The darkness spreading, taking fruits,
Our society, collapsing, with no reboots.
I see division, hate, and fear,
Injustice reigning, far and near, ...
Both sweet dreams and nightmares tread,
One brings comfort, the other dread,
A swirling vortex in my head.
I dream of a world without despair,
One with love and justice everywhere,
Where all are equal, without a care,
And kindness flows like gentle air.
But nightmares come, with gnarled roots,
Twisted tendrils, like toxic shoots,
The darkness spreading, taking fruits,
Our society, collapsing, with no reboots.
I see division, hate, and fear,
Injustice reigning, far and near, ...
#secrets
#despair
#hypocrisy
#sacrifice
#manipulation
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Baldwin
Poem Published
12th May 2023 1:03pm
12th May 2023 1:03pm
piety
I’ve laid the bull’s bones
and its thigh fat on
the altar stone
and set the pyre beneath them into flame
then prayed my sacrifice
would find some favor in
the eyes of Him,
the holy one
I call The Name..
But I was not so pious or
so brainless as to think
that breathing in the rising smoke,
however sweet the smell of it,
would take me up to Him
or cause me anything but agony
within my lungs
and make me Him disdain.
No, such a thing, I knew,
would root me to the earth
in coughing fits...
and its thigh fat on
the altar stone
and set the pyre beneath them into flame
then prayed my sacrifice
would find some favor in
the eyes of Him,
the holy one
I call The Name..
But I was not so pious or
so brainless as to think
that breathing in the rising smoke,
however sweet the smell of it,
would take me up to Him
or cause me anything but agony
within my lungs
and make me Him disdain.
No, such a thing, I knew,
would root me to the earth
in coughing fits...
#sacrifice
#PopCulture
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Joseph-Zenieh
Poem Published
8th Apr 2023 4:17pm
8th Apr 2023 4:17pm
THE UNBEARABLE SIGHT
THE UNBEARABLE SIGHT
Lord, You are the mind of God.
You could make the world worthwhile
to the sinners, and l am
one of them; You rescued us.
Life was torment to my heart.
You revealed to me the way
that could make remorse a breeze
of delightful zest so fresh.
I began to live my joy
with You sitting just beside.
You've become what l live for.
Far from You is sin and fright.
Don't depart from me, my Lord.
You've obtained my peace and mirth.
To behold you on the cross
causes me the complete loss. ...
Lord, You are the mind of God.
You could make the world worthwhile
to the sinners, and l am
one of them; You rescued us.
Life was torment to my heart.
You revealed to me the way
that could make remorse a breeze
of delightful zest so fresh.
I began to live my joy
with You sitting just beside.
You've become what l live for.
Far from You is sin and fright.
Don't depart from me, my Lord.
You've obtained my peace and mirth.
To behold you on the cross
causes me the complete loss. ...
#sacrifice
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CanDyFloss_72Monet
Poem Published
30th Mar 2023 11:03am
30th Mar 2023 11:03am
Dead flies
It breaks his heart to think of what illuminated in the black gives back.
Throughout time,black been compromised,defiled,dehumanised,
stolen from,denied,vandalised.
Not now.
Illuminated in the black,fights back.
In time,destined to change lives.
Wow! Expertly described.
Get rid of those dead flies.
He sighs.
© CandyFlossMonet. March 2023
Throughout time,black been compromised,defiled,dehumanised,
stolen from,denied,vandalised.
Not now.
Illuminated in the black,fights back.
In time,destined to change lives.
Wow! Expertly described.
Get rid of those dead flies.
He sighs.
© CandyFlossMonet. March 2023
#abuse
#LifeStruggles
#TimeHeals
#suffering
#sacrifice
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oskar
Poem Published
22nd Mar 2023 10:16am
22nd Mar 2023 10:16am
the way of a marriage
The way a marriage
On the bus 8 to Garston, I met my future wife; I was going
to meet someone at the British Legion, something about
a job as a cook on a ship. At an outdoor, we bought cans of
cokes and a bottle of rum.
I thought she was the kindest woman; I had ever met.
We married, and people I didn’t like came to our reception
like my brothers-in-laws
Dreams never last on cook’s wages, awake one morn
no smell of coffee from downstairs; she had gone out
and left a note: “Get a Job, you drunken slob!”
I took a bus to Albert Dock,...
On the bus 8 to Garston, I met my future wife; I was going
to meet someone at the British Legion, something about
a job as a cook on a ship. At an outdoor, we bought cans of
cokes and a bottle of rum.
I thought she was the kindest woman; I had ever met.
We married, and people I didn’t like came to our reception
like my brothers-in-laws
Dreams never last on cook’s wages, awake one morn
no smell of coffee from downstairs; she had gone out
and left a note: “Get a Job, you drunken slob!”
I took a bus to Albert Dock,...
#motivational
#spiritual
#patience
#misunderstood
#sacrifice
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