Short Hubris Poems

ladder of folly
human hubris appended
divine will rended...

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hubris,
worst blindness,
adoring own monument,
clay tower upon sand,
conceit....

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All the elegance
Of small-scale
Gets swept aside
By this tide
Of tectonic pride...

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after Mandela
nice laws - then Blacks play race card -
merit drowning with discards...

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I hail the critics
That so doggedly denounced me
Pardon me for my hubris
They said it wouldn’t last
And they were right...

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There's worse things
than to live life
a pared down poet
stripped of hubris
at peace with myself
and the demons at bay....

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Zero point two percent of life Man represents on earth yet the whole planet claims as his own!







© Demetrios Trifiatis
   20 September 2018...

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Any transgression of natural law by Man hubris against divinity's sacred law of life becomes!









(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
        09 August 2016...

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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....

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Childlike innocence entwined with hubris 
Innate vibrancy of love, light and bliss

23-March-2023
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Write BANTUs Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Suzanne Delaney...

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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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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!
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By trying to snatch nature's rudder  from God's almighty hand 

Man succeeded in putting life in danger on water, air, and land!









© Demetrios Trifiatis
        19 June 2018...

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I refused to bow down to the mean.
To be average would not be my scene.
I’d avoid every trap.
This would be but a snap.
When I thought this, my age was eighteen....

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Human blasphemy

Nature's harmony destroys,

Unpunished Hubris! 






© Demetrios Trifiatis
     08 January 2018

*The pollution of land, air and water puts the future of humanity at risk....

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...for Sylvia Plath


White wisps in 
killing glow 
dissolve.

Whiteness
won't redeem her;
arctic and stark,
bright yet lifeless.

Barren,  
a spectre 
without purpose,

she teeters 
in darkness, 
alone in her lordliness....

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it often feels
as though life gathers stones
upon puerile sand

rising toward hubris
ever further from the source
…fragile as innocence

11 May 2020
Contest: Flow With The Collum Lune
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Visual: 2...

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Cassiopeia, with
       child Andromeda, had
   considered themselves most
          comely beauties in all
      creation. Her hubris
             condemned her, chained to a
         chair in Poseidon's wrath.


Written 7 Mar 2022...

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...for Sylvia Plath


White wisps in 
killing glow 
dissolve.

Whiteness
won't absolve her;
arctic and stark
it wills her ill.

She's hollow,  
assured of 
missing 
opportunities.

She swaggers 
in darkness, 
alone in her lordliness....

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As Earth turns
And Sun burns
Humans in our infinite hubris
Carry on the great tradition of Icarus
Fly fly fly
Right to the edge
Saber rattling as we go
Daring the other
To take the bait
Take to the air
And fly fly fly
Ever closer to the sun

(8/6/24)
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The locked door that bars contrition
When my heart of hearts knows
My word or deed
Is culpable for the pain and sadness
Of the one who loves me most
I've opened the door
I reciprocate the love…
I apologize.

Copyright 2016   Iger Rolyat   All Rights Reserved...

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A muscular aerial acrobat
Young Mandy avoided nets, just like that
  
    Going netless has its perks
     Only if your balance works

You could say hubris made Mandy go splat



*for Natalie’s “Die a Fun Death” contest
11/20/2011 (Hubris is excessive pride or arrogance)...

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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 conflict 
In conflict with a powerful being
I'm powerless but not forgotten...

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VIII. Hubris

To peer into the limits of the observable.

Affix thy gaze upon the instant beyond the observed.

The foci of the fabric whispers transient uniformity.

Is it not hubris to assert understanding.

In folly the question begs.

© veritatem voluntatem 2015...

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Humility~
Jesus sat with sinners
uplifted the lowly
and washed the Disciples' feet.
The Pharisee valued power more than souls
was greedy and self-indulgent*
and expected the best seat.*
      ~Hubris...

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