Best Hybris Poems
Thus Spoke HybrisAesop, 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 finally it
was time for Polemos (War) to draw his lot, the last of the bachelors. Hybris (Reckless
Pride) became his wife,...
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Categories:
hybris, war
Form:
Sonnet
HybrisAnd 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 Fate itself to
give me back my wasted years;
the years I wasted on you....
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Categories:
hybris, absence, blue, fate, heartbroken,
Form:
Choka