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Best Tragic Flaw Poems


Cry Only For Those Who Cannot Hear You
The wind did stir the thought in kind wanting - for if she knew my soul, just a spark 
of it, I would be a rich man...

So long this ribbon of love that flows over the rocks of age and distant torment...
The gate keepers sit...

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Categories: tragic flaw, adventure, faith, happiness, inspirational,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member True, Moses Wrote of Righteousness
True, Moses wrote of righteousness, one based upon the law.
But Paul proffered an alternate, eschewed the tragic flaw.
Salvation based on works alone: a concept misapplied.
For all, not most, have fallen short; to live thus was to die.

The argument that he put forth: the wage of...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tragic flaw, christian, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dante's Divine Comedy Hell Translation Canto Vii
(Continuing the trip through Hell of Dante with poet Virgilio)

Pah-peh Sah-tan, Pah-peh Sah-tan al-ept!”,
Started Pluto with his hoarse voice toss
And that gentle wise, who any knowledge kept,

Told to encourage me: “don’t have a loss 
By your fright: since any power has he,
Shall not forbid us...

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Categories: tragic flaw, fantasy, universe,
Form: Terza Rima

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Premium Member Beary Tales Episodes 1-6, Poet's Notes
(Remembering Innocence)


Note to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are new tales, improvements to previous verses, and improved footnotes as well! Trust me!


1. Bear Johnston
“Bear Johnston,” a stuffed...

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Categories: tragic flaw, adventure, best friend, blessing,
Form: Quatrain
Social Privy
justice 

What does this vastly misunderstood word mean to you? 

Too what ends? 

May we seek? 

Who(m) may guide us? 

Endless deliberation (spiss spiss spiss)

Debated and glorified by us all 

Beloved; instilled among (a) core integrity 

Coddled and looked upon/after with parental instinct 

Construed through...

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Categories: tragic flaw, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure,
Form: Free verse
The Tale of Snowman
“Oh Snowman!” sing the children-birds,
“For what reason are you astray?”
He’d put some care into his words.
Who cares what snowmen have to say?

He’d long been keeping up his trade
Of mangling words where truths apply.
But well he knows in this charade
That half the truth is not a...

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© Gael Attal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tragic flaw, angst, death, fantasywords,
Form: Rhyme



Man
The evolutionary advantage, and tragic flaw of man,
is the weight and scope of his own thought span;...

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Categories: tragic flaw, inspirational, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Couplet
A David For David Contest
A DAVID FOR DAVID

Long ago there lived a man--
King David, poet, ruled a  land
As a singer showed his heart
As a warrior played his part
Tried to follow God’s great law
But he had a tragic flaw
Stole a woman for his wife
Took her gallant husband’s life
Cried out...

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Categories: tragic flaw, love,
Form: Rhyme
Call
By Laura Dee
October 27, 2014

Echoes answer my call to arms
This majesty I couldn't harm
Maybe that's my tragic flaw
I never killed my dated laws

I cannot flex until I break
I'm doomed to repeat my mistakes
Feels so hopeless underground
Desperately escape the sound

Though my laughter may contend
Pass me by...

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© Laura Dee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tragic flaw, addiction, anger, gender, girl,
Form: Rhyme
To Fight Or To Flight
Out of his options: to fight or to flight, 
He chose, as any tragic hero does, to fight,
To fiercely fight, taking fighting as right
Act, to escape from cold, dreadful plight.

This man had, as any other, a tragic flaw, 
That turned his life to a puzzle...

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Categories: tragic flaw, confusion, psychological,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Stalking Place
The Stalking Place

Through the secret, guarded windows
of the soul’s protected space
down the corridors of mania
is a distorted stalking place.

In the midst of strong emotion
passion, envy, hate and love
burns the fire of crazed devotion
something rarely spoken of.

By a mutual attraction
it is hoped that love will grow
to...

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Categories: tragic flaw, conflict, desire,
Form: Rhyme
No Intend Offend; Intend Ascend
High-frequency T.V.'s and Mp3's-
fortune five-hundred execs 
getting high on profit specs,
and migratory bird disease.

We live in a time where
teenage single mothers still have sex,
and the majority recieve hourly checks;
we all look on with an empty stare.

Illegal plants but legal drinking;
everyone is worried about what they...

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Categories: tragic flaw, angst, education, life,
Form: Quatrain
A Shade of the Past Should Not Control You
Don't live in the past
Let the bad memories go
So you can live your life!
It is not easy but you have to try
So that you don't let a shade of the past control you!

Don't let your Memories steer you to Injustice
‘Can I go forward when my...

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© Mark Frank  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tragic flaw, peace,
Form: Didactic
Painful Scar
By just one count, an awful miss 
Just like a drifted flying kiss
A million dollar prize in draw 
A one count miss like tragic flaw 

A lifetime spent for that one chance 
To have a taste of its sweet glance 
But playful hand of destiny...

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Categories: tragic flaw, memory,
Form: Quatrain
Corona
sad faces and hearts
feeling useless and helpless...

what art thou? 
strange foe 
visceral show
from top to toe
open jaw
on the death raw

why bro?
shaking hearts and so
oh no
how do we know?

you are not that slow
you are fast to blow
body and soul
unforgettable
irreversible
sudden and swift sword
under one law
reaping at high...

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Categories: tragic flaw, loss,
Form: Rhyme

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