Pride Poem by Francis Duggan

Pride

Rating: 3.2


Behind the facade of our big egos we constantly do hide
And pride of five letters is only that just pride
And some will even tell you pride comes before a fall
From life we have been learning from before we learned to crawl,
The thing we refer to as pride not easily understood
A little pride is necessary but too much pride not good
Pride can lead to big egos and snobbish self conceit
A truly humble person is one you don't often meet
The self opinionated and self conceited never known to be rare
Those who promote their egos in the bigger World out there
From the seeds of a big ego success is often grown
A humble quiet achiever is one I have not known
A little pride is necessary and self esteem okay
But too much pride can lead to arrogance and that seems sad to say.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Kayla Smith 08 January 2013

I like how you have defined both aspects of pride, the good and the bad. Showing that balance is what we need. Not just with pride but everything in our lives.

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Heather Wilkins 24 November 2014

aking pride in one self is good ego sometimes is not so good nice write

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Kelly Kurt 24 March 2015

An insightful work. Thank you

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Much pride can lead to arrogance and that seems sad to say, fantastic. Kindly go through poems onloneliness, dreams, society

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Keith Brown 22 April 2020

Nice poem hopefully you are allowed some pride, a fall may bruise an ego but it doesn't seem to stop us

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Prabir Gayen 11 July 2019

A little pride is necessary and self esteem okay But too much pride can lead to arrogance and that seems sad to say. ..... beautiful

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Dr Antony Theodore 09 November 2018

A little pride is necessary but too much pride not good Pride can lead to big egos and snobbish self conceit.....what a great truth dear poet.... you have depicted here. marvelous. all should read your poems. thank u. tony

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Stan Rodriguez 19 May 2018

Nicely put – enjoyed your poem very much.

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M Asim Nehal 09 March 2016

Very true, Poignant work.

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