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Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus

Poems

  • Magic
  • Fitful Love
  • Being Faithful
  • The Statue
  • Pain in the Neck
  • Mock Panegyric
  • Always Up to
  • Milk Rain
  • Gimme that Moon
  • Breakfast
  • Awake!
  • I Did Not Eat the Butter
  • Dejected
  • Three Horses
  • Fear
  • Moody Me
  • Colossus
  • Sacrifice
  • Ezekiel
  • A Thick Fog
  • Succeed
  • A Flower
  • With My Love
  • The Battlefield
  • A World of Do
  • Insect
  • Even there?
  • Hedge that Divides
  • Destroy Me
  • Royal Bride
  • Torturous Woman
  • Africa
  • Is it Because?
  • The Price Paid
  • I Have Found
  • Supply and Demand
  • To Her
  • Desert Home
  • Hear Me Roar
  • Truth
  • Veiling
  • William
  • I'm Not
  • Her Splendor
  • Aphrodite!
  • The Fisherman
  • Unbeknownst to Me
  • Snake Bite
  • Mightiest Mite
  • Hip Hop Hooray
  • Octupi
  • Underwater Under-Whelmed
  • Lost at Land
  • Lichens
  • Old Growth
  • Agitated
  • Genius
  • To Stephen
  • Taxes
  • Dear Jennie
  • Baccus
  • Trial and Tribulations
  • Laws of Spirit
  • Author's Note

The Supreme Sacrifice by Emma Lazarus

The sacrifices made in the Name of
is it God or brotherly love?

Banished for the wrong reasons
communities seasoned
drinks tossed back
sometimes as a toast
othertimes a premonition of being toast
othertimes just for the sake of

The sacrifices made in the Name of

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