Best Pyrrhic Poems
Pyrrhic VictoryPYRRHIC VICTORY*
Written for a friend who has cancer!
Who are you, oh Death?
Are you:
A friend
Or
A foe?
My liberation
Or
My condemnation?
The end of my troubles
Or
The beginning of my tribulations?
The sunset of the temporal
Or
The dawn of the eternal?
Whoever you are,
Unafraid before...
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Categories:
pyrrhic, courage, friend, health, hope,
Form:
Didactic
Pyrrhic Revenge Pyrrhic revenge
They’d eaten his books, his clothes and lean paper money,
Whetted their teeth against his coins and an old jar of honey.
They’d blown cold air nightly, as they gnawed whilst he slept,
Eating bits of his extremities that lay in the path they crept.
No out-of-bounds,...
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Categories:
pyrrhic, loss,
Form:
Rhyme
Pyrrhic EvolutionPYRRHIC EVOLUTION
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
There once was a time in this great land
When folks said “ yes sir” and “yes maam”
Those days are ancient, eroded away
Where are we headed, I’m afraid to say
A time when the elderly were respected
A time when vulgar language, not accepted
A time...
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Categories:
pyrrhic, allusion, america, angst, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
A Pyrrhic TriumphHer eyes lightened the darkness of my hopelessness,
something about its softness pulsated.
Oh, what a prize,
...
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Categories:
pyrrhic, appreciation, blessing, courage, first
Form:
Verse
My Pyrrhic TripMY PYRRHIC TRIP
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
I Had Planned this Trip for Years and Years
Not Enough Longevity, Was My Haunting Fears
But Sure Enough the Time Arrived to Go
Gonna Ramble, Gamble and Catch the Shows
Off to Vegas, I Can Hear the Casinos Calling
Wad of Cash, Gas in the...
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Categories:
pyrrhic, dream, fantasy, humor, irony,
Form:
Rhyme
Suicide of Jeffrey Epstein Equals Pyrrhic VictoryRigor mortis cold comfort
defendant need not appear in court
diminishes attendant prosecutorial effort
habeas corpus made superfluous
courtesy just dessert morte
but deadman outflanked plaintiffs sport.
Nonetheless millionaire financier and
accused sex trafficker
found dead by suicide
on Saturday August 10th, 2019
doth not absolve his guilt
rather speaks of innocence
and naiveté he stole.
Many accosted...
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Categories:
pyrrhic, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Bittersweet pyrrhic victoryBittersweet pyrrhic victory...
if a 2024 November presidential Biden win
pandemonium likely to occur,
subsequently figurative tectonic upheaval
might set United States in a tailspin.
Though discouraged, disenchanted,
disheartened, et cetera Democrat,
I intend to exercise enfranchisement
wherein human made his habitat
within Schwenksville, Penna,
a washed out town with one laundromat
pessimism...
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Categories:
pyrrhic, 12th grade, abuse, america,
Form:
Free verse
War and PiecePeople still talk about war and peace,
But time’s come to talk of war and piece,
To pieces that turns life,
To shambles, utter strife,
And still, would war mania ever cease?
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Happenings |01.03.2022| war, peace
Poet’s note: We know, war victories are pyrrhic and the victor and...
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Categories:
pyrrhic, peace, war,
Form:
Limerick