Best Hubris Poems

41.
        Resist I Must

Pride is hubris run amok
To rot the soul within.
It rises from the depths of hell...
The deadliest of sins.

It is the snake that slithers so
To pervert both bold and brave.
It may appear the luminous rainbow
But at...

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All the elegance
Of small-scale
Gets swept aside
By this tide
Of tectonic pride...

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A TRAGEDY OF PRIDE ( hubris)
                       

In the Arctic nights the jazz born North Lights sound
with a music of their own. Fair winds...

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As Pharoah thought
Deep thoughts on Thoth,
He became serious
And thought of Osiris.

What of Seth?
What do Anubis and Horus sayeth?
Of Amun and Mut,
And panoplied Nut?

It may take me forever
Mused the Pharoah -
To invent the Alphabet
To honour me and the rest.

So he hit upon a plan
From the carved...

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My friends I’ve had a great idea,
I have to let you in on,
I can’t believe that no one else
Has thought of this before.

You all know how the NRA
Says guns have made us safer?
Well this should make the rabid cheer
Saint Brian has the floor!

You’d think that...

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By trying to snatch nature's rudder  from God's almighty hand 

Man succeeded in putting life in danger on water, air, and land!









© Demetrios Trifiatis
        19 June 2018...

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Villanelle : Those whom the gods disdain bloat tough in hubris

Those whom the gods disdain bloat tough in hubris
Vesuvius sank isle strung duckweed in Mid-Sea
Tectonic plates clash Zeus’ curse sinks Atlantis 

Tough talk across Atlantic makes Olympus hiss
Triumphant magnate tandem with pale Yin on knee
Those...

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Human blasphemy

Nature's harmony destroys,

Unpunished Hubris! 






© Demetrios Trifiatis
     08 January 2018

*The pollution of land, air and water puts the future of humanity at risk....

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Certain men have risen to claim dominance over society,
Their actions attest to barren depths of indifference,
Caring not that those who are unable to fight back
Are trodden beneath the heavy boots of oppression;
Artistry, vision unrecognized by these ruthless men
Allowing the best of creation to fall unrealized;
Blindness...

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Hubris makes me wait
For something better
Which is all the poisonous tundra
That my mind can take today
So, let begin, the parade
Streaming displays
Traversing
Through crowded gawkers
Who sing and cling
To verses, euphonic notions
Of melodies and maladies
Only recognizable to an audience
Of unknown disparity, such as they
And where am I
Among the...

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As if Narcissus could look
Into a weeping pool
Yet still on reflection fall in love

The ancient tears, which were gathered there
Around the puddle of our history
In silent memoriam

And what the heart does not see
And when the eyes refuse to see
They bury conscience in constructions of fake...

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VIII. Hubris

To peer into the limits of the observable.

Affix thy gaze upon the instant beyond the observed.

The foci of the fabric whispers transient uniformity.

Is it not hubris to assert understanding.

In folly the question begs.

© veritatem voluntatem 2015...

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We walk the earth as lords of all
only judeo-christian types of course
We crush the weak and heed no call
history is written by the winners
We think ourselves the smartest race
anthills never knew Oppenheimer 
We show no mercy, leave no trace
victors are killers chewing food chain rhetoric

We...

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I refused to bow down to the mean.
To be average would not be my scene.
I’d avoid every trap.
This would be but a snap.
When I thought this, my age was eighteen....

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Puller of a big shell home, no hobo
Tracked brightest of silver patterns
Bold snail, Hugh wobbled with mojo 
Hubris resumes his powerful status

Side to side saunter, his slimy slide
Tells everyone of bombastic confidence 
Temptations, his charms quickly aquire
Conquests met get exactly what he wants

Big ego feeds...

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