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Megalomaniacs Poems - Poems about Megalomaniacs


Gboko Gives Chase

...In Gboko, where the dust motes dance and play,
A town, a city, a people, some would say.
What defines its spirit, a riddle, a quest,
With a gait too familiar, putting all to the test.

"Gboko!" ...
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Categories: megalomaniacs, africa, culture, funny, happiness,
Form: Narrative

Self Destruction

...It was a world of two ideologies
Both wanting to hold sway
Neither of which were prepared
To give anything away 
Now it’s a world of two Empires
Neither of which are ready to stop
But the stran...
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Categories: megalomaniacs, humanity,
Form: Rhyme



A Moron and a Putz

..."When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations."              John F. Kennedy
                 


Arrogance is such an egotistical trait; one I c...
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Categories: megalomaniacs, introspection, society,
Form: Rhyme

Panicking the Pandemic

...Deciphered deceptions that the summer brings,
As the cathedrals crumble for the corona Kings…
Units ubiquitous unleashed with sweeping strings,
Infectious isolation internal as the con...
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Categories: megalomaniacs, conflict, confusion, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Book of Dust

...We are but fleeting shadows
 On the  impersonal sea of time
Footprints washed away in its sands
Such traces that we do leave
Are found in fading memories
And crumbling artefacts.
There are thos...
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Categories: megalomaniacs, atheist,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberPlanet Killers '1' Vs Candy Stripers '2'

...(America’s Mutant Megalomaniacs)

All Scientists know that our planet is warming,
No question remains too whose ox will get gored!
A contributing fact is earth's CO2's rising,
That surface of Ve...
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Categories: megalomaniacs, anti bullying, political, science,
Form: Rhyme

Crazy Governments

...Crazy governments

And their leaders too

Want to raise down

Missiles on me and you

Psychopathic, maniacs

Disturbed megalomaniacs

Bringing down death

With falsehood and lies

Man...
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Categories: megalomaniacs, crazy, leadership, power, sky,
Form: Narrative

Ballad of the Bomb

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Megalomaniacs, from any era,
all have the killer extinct gene
A beastly desire to bring everything
to the brink of nothing
Oh, how some would love to channel 
their inner Nero
To mak...
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Categories: megalomaniacs, dark, death, visionary, wisdom,
Form: Elegy

Premium MemberMegalomaniacs

...The world they try to shrink to their

Own size 


For


Great they wish to appear, before their

Dazzled eyes!



(C) Demetrios Trifiatis
      07 August 2015...
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Categories: megalomaniacs, allegory, character, parody,
Form: Epigram

His Hair Was Dyed Red

...the world watches Holmes
sit “dazed” in the courtroom,
with each mainstream media
monolith
churning out the sound bites
referencing his eyes & his
red hair---
the picture that goes viral is
of course...
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Categories: megalomaniacs, life, world,
Form: Free verse

Belsan

...This was written for the Belsan Tragedy....

Mother Earth has completed
the cycle of the sun
Searing agony; blackened dreams
Freewill has been undone

Vivid memories tainted by blood
Megaloma...
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Categories: megalomaniacs, angst, introspection, life, loss,
Form: I do not know?

Ultimate Computation

...Seek while you may find, strength of cerebral cortex. 
'Though shrouded in complexities, higher minds advance to next. 
Con folks par exellence, exorcising painful memories. 
Enabling state of eli...
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Categories: megalomaniacs, song-lyric
Form: Quatrain

Porch Swing

...the cold came in
like a sideways glance 
from a once spectacular friend
it froze my movements
just as the labrea memorialized
the bones of other
trying beasts
with thick,
viscuid
material

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Categories: megalomaniacs, friendship, happiness, holiday, life,
Form: Free verse

Life Imitates Art a Humble Tribute To Oscar Wilde

...O thou proud Nature
Rolling in ashes of long-burnt
Fiery love of yourself
What are you boasting of?

Thy greenery? 
That’s nothing but
Wooden rotten figures 
With wrinkled claws
Scratching the Earth’...
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Categories: megalomaniacs, art, life, nature, on
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things