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Hybris Poems - Poems about Hybris


Premium MemberConversations at the Areopagus

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(The Apostle Paul is waiting at Athens, and some of the Epicureans and Stoics engaged him in conversation.)

Agon, Aidos, Apate, Bia, Corus and Dysnomia (talking amongst themselves) say “What w...
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Categories: hybris, atheist, bible, jesus, philosophy,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberNature's Wrath

...Nature's wrath-- incarnated as hurricanes--demonstrates Lord's indignation for the hybris of Man!*







©  Demetrios Trifiatis
    07 September 2017



* Hurricane, Irma has been decla...
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Categories: hybris, god, men, natural disasters,
Form: Monoku



Hybris

...And I've become the 
victim of my own hybris. 
I was ...careless and

proud when I thought you 
are harmless to me. Now I
am trying to

bribe Fate itself to 
give me back my wasted years; 
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Categories: hybris, absence, blue, fate, heartbroken,
Form: Choka

Thus Spoke Hybris

...Aesop, Fables 533 (from Babrius 70) (trans. Gibbs) (Greek fable C6th B.C.) :
"The gods were getting married. One after another, they all got hitched, until finally it
was time for Polemos (War) to ...
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Categories: hybris, war
Form: Sonnet

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