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Hubris Poems - Poems about Hubris

The Greed of Men
Who wanted without the knowing And grew without the sowing Standing there in awkward stance Viewing all with eyes askance Asking without reasoned why Reaching vain to touch the sky For in whose hands with futile grip The beams of sun and moon doth slip And lips that sing the lullabies Seldom heard but often cried...

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Categories: hubris, angst, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ghost of Frankenstein
It’s hubris, I suppose, down in my soul, To think the ends will justify all means. And thinking that all rules are drab and dull I end up being blown to smithereens. But truly I know what is for the best! Thus, whispers little demons in my ears. Consider it a type of sacred quest And follow your own heart and not...

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Categories: hubris, science,
Form: Sonnet



Hubris when meets her nemesis
Yesterday’s ours only to muse On, the morrow, to win or lose. To those not knowing this, Time gives a passing kiss-- O it pays well today to choose. _______________________ Happenings |14.02.2025| political, pride Note: AAP party’s chief ruled Delhi for ten long years with a strong majority only to be undone in recent elections. Reason? Hubris. He failed to learn...

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Categories: hubris, political, pride,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member the collective hubris of our indifference to ants
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 race anthills never knew Oppenheimer We show no mercy, leave no trace victors are killers chewing food chain rhetoric We build machines to serve our need our will be done in...

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Categories: hubris, anxiety, appreciation, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Selfdefeating Victory
Cancer is a paradox. The more it grows. the closer it comes to taking the life of its host and its own. So is war. Wars go their own way, whatever those who start them say....

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Categories: hubris, cancer, violence, war,
Form: Other



Premium Member Penniless At the Tollgate
PENNILESS AT THE TOLLGATE Wish I had a cat, or maybe just a friend. Mother says it's not the end, but it is. Reflections in the mirror, inspections of the interior. She's gone, I'm wrong, and the soul can be so empty. The milk is sour in the sink. To wish, to think, over the horizon the sun peeks, the Blackbird rumbles then it...

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Categories: hubris, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Word Salad
We have come to a point in Our history where we no longer have the ability, Rather, the commitment to see things for what they are, Desiring what can be imagined in our minds, Singularly unburdened by the truth, And disregarding what has been a proven Lapse in judgment, and then to assert confidently, with Artifice, and in so doing, make the...

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Categories: hubris, history,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Pride Be Hubris Run Amok
41. Resist I Must Pride is hubris run amok To rot the soul within. It rises from the depths of hell... The deadliest of sins. It is the snake that slithers so To pervert both bold and brave. It may appear the luminous rainbow But at its end... a pauper's grave. Resist I must... if resist i...

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Categories: hubris, anxiety, endurance, pride,
Form: Rhyme
Shotgun Law, Part Ii
...Lefty just smiled at the sight, wouldn’t have to search for the fight, he said, “I see you want to die, are bounties really worth your life?” The man wore white, and smile back, “Ain’t none faster than Randsome Jack. I’d draw, but there is no need too with that shotgun right behind you.” Lefty sneered, “No need to be a jerk, I’m not...

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Categories: hubris, adventure, confidence, history, strength,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Shotgun Law, Part I
Lefty Jacobs pushed through the doors, he wanted a drink, nothing more, after long days out on the trail, a ride so hard his horse had failed. He’d had to get out of Roystown, to many lawmen going ’round, he had a name that brought such things, but he was long beyond caring. As he moved up to get a drink, across the bar...

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Categories: hubris, adventure, confidence, history, strength,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Things We Don'T Understand
So often does it seem to me, as science moves forth steadily, that it sets into certain minds that there’s no truth we cannot find. “All can be known,”they do declare, with enough study, work, and care, hubris gives us pretensions grands, yet there’s things we can’t understand. Now I don’t stand against science, since it’s led to real improvement, when it comes to ‘How,’...

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Categories: hubris, confusion, faith, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Spiral Into the Spring - Narcissism Now
Puller of a big shell home, no hobo Tracked brightest of silver patterns Bold snail, Hugh wobbled with mojo Hubris resumes his powerful status Side to side saunter, his slimy slide Tells everyone of bombastic confidence Temptations, his charms quickly aquire Conquests met get exactly what he wants Big ego feeds his sanguine superior Fragile actuality of shell's thin build Ignores Hugh's vulnerable...

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Categories: hubris, allusion, anxiety, beauty, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Science Facts That Shock
1. In matters of MATTER. density is a function of SPACE, and not of matter, or "things." 2. A propeller that's spinning will cut Yet in a smaller space, the same will act as a wall - not cut you or me, but push, or bang up against us 3. The earth is opening and closing so fast Beneath our...

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Categories: hubris, education, philosophy, science, stars,
Form: Epigram
Graffito
Ugly Angry Vandalism Justified ...

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Categories: hubris, art, loneliness,
Form: Concrete
South Africa Sinks Senryu20200124 Number3: It Pours
after Mandela nice laws - then Blacks play race card - merit drowning with discards...

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Categories: hubris, 6th grade, anti bullying,
Form: Senryu

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