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Hubris Poems - Poems about Hubris

Hubris Poems - Examples of all types of poems about hubris to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for hubris.
Within The Walls of Blasphemy
...I abhor what I believe in Yet, I adore it at the same time What does this mean? The lack of good conduct? A mind of selfish ambition? Maybe a crisis in identity? My hubris intentions are in......Read the rest...
Categories: hubris, corruption, deep, spiritual,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Cautionary Tale
... Great is the battle, small the victory when all that is won is lost to mankind - in this war of worlds its great casualty is the fallen consciousness in our mind. From spear tip and ar......Read the rest...
Categories: hubris, culture, humanity, perspective, world,
Form: Sonnet
Deva Ossig, the landlady and property owner turned rogue
...Deva Ossig, the landlady (and property owner) turned rogue Just a couple weeks shy and seven years ago to the day, I still remember contractual obligations our previous residential abode 724 ......Read the rest...
Categories: hubris, adventure, anger, animal, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Awakening to the Red Road: An Ecopoetic Odyssey 'Part 1 of 6'
..."Awakening to the Red Road: An Ecopoetic Odyssey" I. Anthropocentric Dissonance - Daniel Henry Rodgers Do you hear that rumbling? That's the a......Read the rest...
Categories: hubris, earth, native american, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heart Gentle Eye Mindful
... Written: May 18, 2024, For Unseeking Seeker Contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Languid breath dwindles, scrounging panacea air quiddity remorse core conve......Read the rest...
Categories: hubris, analogy, heart, mental health,
Form: Rhyme



pink hair and motorcycles
...you remember that one time when ava fell off the swings and cut her knee? how everyone laughed at her for her childish hubris in thinking she could jump and land, unscathed, from that high a distan......Read the rest...
Categories: hubris, first love, i love
Form: Free verse
Devil Clocked Angel
...Devil Clocked Angel In the midst of fire and brimstone, stands an angel dressed in white, Her beauty beyond compare as a mask hidding her true self, she leaves nothing to chance. With eyes that spar......Read the rest...
Categories: hubris, angel, body, break up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Has It Gone
...Where has it gone? I had it thus... To make bold a troubled mind. For as you see... it's up to me To keep the dregs in line. I feel naked with its absence... Unsure how to bear the cost. Bese......Read the rest...
Categories: hubris, judgement, mirror, pride,
Form: Rhyme
On Moral Relativism, Part II
......You apply it to history and the causes we fought just fade away into nothing, and everything is lost. You think that slavery was bad, that’s just your point-of-view, you think that women sho......Read the rest...
Categories: hubris, god, humanity, philosophy, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member limbo
... why … why do we careless creatures hold on so tightly? tears are not poisonous they will not etch our face with the afflictions they carry but they WILL assuage its acidity - why not let t......Read the rest...
Categories: hubris, analogy, loneliness, loss, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Superfluous
...Your love for me has been far too smothering and superfluous. Your light in my spiritual path was so luminous. Now after all this time, I am left blinded by hubris.......Read the rest...
Categories: hubris, love,
Form: Sijo
my way
...My way (edited) the three famous tenors sang, MY-Way the fat one died, and the two others hates each other never appear in public together One looks like an aging matinee idol the other suff......Read the rest...
Categories: hubris, adventure, anti bullying, art,
Form: Blank verse
Why aught this
...I hold all my truths to be a nuisance.  I hold all my shortcomings to be a riddle.  Through smoke and fog of plenty I am blinded to that which I should fear but in pride I do not. Comfort is a g......Read the rest...
Categories: hubris, deep, riddle,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cheshire's Chagrin
...Cat and canary at odds through the day A game of chase hunts his delicious prey But Tweety turns tables Just like Aesop’s fables End game birdy tweets, hubris doesn’t pay! ......Read the rest...
Categories: hubris, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Battle of Britain II
...A pulsing motive met them in the sky to paint his birds before they flew your way, then talons reared, determined to deny the devil’s flying wolves a win this day. Your heaven’s filled relentless......Read the rest...
Categories: hubris, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

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