Best Hubristic Poems

Inscrutable torrents of history shall crush
   him who ignores the lessons in his greedy rush,
      his rabid obsession...

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"Strawberry Kisses"



temptation 
covert operatives

brush contact 99
coquettish Smart near misses 

flirtatious crispness
in the velvet time sliding

softly persuasive
dead dropping 

hungry ghosting gumshoes hubristic
dangling dripping words delicious

on tongue...

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Is this world made only for males?
Even History talks about 'His' Story only,
But I am the creator,
The creator should rule her creations,
I am the Master...

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(A)	brown skin girl from Kosciusko 
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Comin’ Through


They stand there
monuments to stupidity
blocking progress,
denying access
or egress
to the doorways
corridors
checkout lines
coffee pots
of life


JUST STANDING THERE
totally enamored of themselves -
the urgency of their idle chit-chat.

Suffering...

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You're bracing for 
the hubristic lecture
it's not here

The crux:
unvarnished understanding
of how blacks see
their outlook for life

Only narrow options:
they can give in, go through
or go around...

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It's about time we talk of ruins.
So, let us talk, for you never know,
How long ears of hope will remain receptive.

Your lips are missing, and...

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What need have we of arches?
What need have we of domes?
What need have we of Churches?
What need have we of Romes?

Let's look beyond our crippling...

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Embellish My Day

Embellish my day into a full life worthy to be lived in your presence. 
Erase my nonchalance and hubristic thoughts before the fiery...

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The True Gothic Tale Unending of Manifold Monsters Doomed

"The biological rarity captivates each freak of nature."
-- the Coney Island Sideshow by the Seashore
 
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At night, I often roam around
the so-called shady side of town.
As I blend in, the people flow
in places decent folk don't go.
I've come to know...

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thus,
like snow,
cold ashes fall
charred history’s
hubristic gales
truth’s torment
tucked into howling
acquiescent innocence.



Empty men
line the banks
fishless rivers
sit idle
barbless hooks
impugn the air
ivy strangled
rowboats sigh



With age color fades
into the weariness
wonder...

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Around me loom awesome skyscrapers 
   that slice the skyline into smoggy 
      strips of vertical horizons.

Closing in...

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Sisyphus 

He rolled the boulder with his burdened shoulder up that treacherous summit
Tricked in hubristic self-righteousness again and again he thought he had done it

We...

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How Absurd it Seemed


Ah, those memories, so well refined, reworked, revised to meet the failings of memory – or the shame of remembrance.  Tinged...

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