Hubris Poems - Poems about Hubris

...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...

...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...

...Where has it gone? I had it just... To make bold a troubled mind. For as you see... it's up to me To keep the dregs in line. I feel naked in its absence... Unsure how to bear the cost. Beset ......Read the rest...

......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...

... 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...

...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...

... By Cherbo Geeplay Have you heard of a voice quiet like the dead of night, rising steadily like ocean currents above the hills of repression, louder from its slumber because the thorns ......Read the rest...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...(Approaching Ingalls Peak, 2012, original oil) Rites of Passage Forty-six years ago, my first winter in the Pacific NW my first winter break at college, I headed out to climb Mt Stuar......Read the rest...

...On a fine April day, set out in the great cruise ship, Titanic, Into the pelagic waters of Atlantic, with the weather alluringly sweet. Plush it was with beaming fellow travelers and amenit......Read the rest...

... We walk the earth as lords of all only judeo-christian types of course We crush the weak and heed no call history is written by the winners We think ourselves the smartest rac......Read the rest...

...Burn Not the Bridges Life is a hubris to uncertainty! One day you are a prince, The next day you are a slave. Indeed, the world is round: Burn not the bridges, You may use the river aga......Read the rest...