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Best Hybris Poems

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Thus Spoke Hybris
Aesop, Fables 533 (from Babrius 70) (trans. Gibbs) (Greek fable C6th B.C.) :
"The gods were getting married. One after another, they all got hitched, until...

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Categories: hybris, war
Form: Sonnet



Hybris
And I've become the 
victim of my own hybris. 
I was ...careless and

proud when I thought you 
are harmless to me. Now I
am trying to

bribe...

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© Diana Bosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hybris, absence, blue, fate, heartbroken,
Form: Choka
Premium Member Nature's Wrath
Nature's wrath-- incarnated as hurricanes--demonstrates Lord's indignation for the hybris of Man!*







©  Demetrios Trifiatis
    07 September 2017



* Hurricane, Irma has been...

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Categories: hybris, god, men, natural disasters,
Form: Monoku

Book: Reflection on the Important Things