Poetry About Pride
Poetry about pride explores a feeling with two faces: the dignity of self-respect and the danger of ego that refuses correction. These poems move through achievement, shame, arrogance, humility, and hard-earned worth.
Pride can help a person stand after being made small. It can also close the door before wisdom arrives.
Featured Poems
Straight Spine
A poem about dignity.
She stood straighter
after years
of rooms
asking her to shrink.
Pride was not vanity.
It was the spine
remembering itself.
- Nora Vale
High Chair
A poem about arrogance.
He climbed so high
above correction
that even friendship
sounded small.
Pride can build
a lonely tower.
- Theo Reed
After The Win
Pride after achievement.
I let myself
feel proud
for one whole evening.
The work had been hard.
The joy had earned
a chair.
- Mira Quinn
Micro Verses
Pride can be
dignity
standing upright.
- Nora Vale
Ego builds towers
with no stairs
back down.
- Theo Reed
Let earned joy
sit down
beside you.
- Mira Quinn
Deeper Explorations
Dignity
Poems about self-respect and standing tall.
Shoulders
Her shoulders rose
like doors
opening inward.
- Nora Vale
Ego
Poems about arrogance and humility.
Tower
From the tower,
every warning
looked like envy.
- Theo Reed