Its April of 2017 and Day 16 of A to Z Challenge. I am doing Idiom a day and 8 line poem for the idiom.
Idiom: Pyrrhic Victory
Meaning: A victory that causes the victor to suffer so much that winning seems worthless
Poem:
Torments to the nature,
Dead and the blood,
Scarcity flood,
Dusty blocks,
Shattered rocks,
War,
A political pest,
A pyrrhic victory.
Note: All the challenge prompts can be found HERE.
Its PH 
And yet man has not learnt the lesson!
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Some lessons, may be, are never learnt!
Thank you so much for the thoughts.. 🙂
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True that!
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🙂
Thanks a lot.. 🙂
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The price paid for winning a war is definitely too high.
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Very.
Thank you so much for the thoughts.. 🙂
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You’re welcome. 😊
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This piece and idiom is so timely!
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🙂 Thanks a lot.. 🙂
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It is exactly where we recommend heading and how we are leading our lives. Excellent post.
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🙂 Thank you so much.. 🙂
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Oh WOW, this blew me away–you truly are a genius!
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Thank you so much.. 🙂
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You’re most sincerely welcome 🙂
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Victory at such a high cost is definitely a pyrrhic victory! You hit a bulls eye with this one!
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Thanks a lot.. 🙂
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The world will never learn. This is such a drastic contrast from all your previous ones. But once again, your words fit the idioms to the T. I’m glad I came across your blog. I’m learning so much 🙂
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Feels so good to read this comment. 🙂 Poems wander in lot directions.
I do enjoy reading your poems as well. Thanks a lot.. 🙂
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Aww, thank you, Prakash 🙂 I agree with you. Poems do tend to go in different directions. That’s the beauty of it 🙂
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🙂 That’s how it all get beautiful.. 🙂
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Well said prakash. Sadly, this is where we are headed with the current situation.
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Sadly, true .
Thank you so much.. 🙂
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The first person, despite the blood and gore of today, to come to my mind was Ashoka.
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Such a co-incidence. When I had read this quote, the first thing that came to my mind was the “Kalinga War”.
Happy to hear that.. 🙂
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Strange telepathy. I like it. ☺
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He he.. 😀
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Loved it. Amazing. 🙂
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Many Thank you.. 🙂
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My pleasure. 🙂
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There couldn’t have been a better use of this idiom than in this poem ! Very apt and with a very relevant message. Excellent, Prakash !!
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Many and more thank you’s. Really happy to hear that.. 🙂
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My pleasure entirely, Prakash 🙂
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Wow Prakash you certainly have a gift with the way you place thought and words together.
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Thank you so much.. Gratitude.. 🙂
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Such a perfect idiom to describe war…so apt and so true..eternally…
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🙂 Thanks a lot.. 🙂
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A pretty decent take on the idiom
Not just a war, i guess a fight in every relationship is same in a way that even if you win the discussion or fight, you will end up weakening or ending a relationship with the guilt of things you shouldn’t have said in the first place.
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Exactly. Specially when it comes to relationship, there should never be a win/lose tag.
Pretty much that! Thanks a lot.. 🙂
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Welcome Prakash !!
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Yes war is a pest all brought about by politicians all around the world. Such great and perfect words penned Prakash.
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Thank you so much for the thoughts.. 🙂
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Thanks for introducing me to a new idiom. Excellent usage – war is indeed a political pest and victory is indeed a pyrrhic one.
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True.. Thank you so much.. 🙂
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You are most welcome 🙂
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It remembered me the line”…The truth untold/the pity of war, the pity war distilled”…Wilfred Owen
you have used the idiom so appropriately. Beautiful.
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Thank you so much for sharing that beautiful quote!
Gratitude.. 🙂
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Your short poems are too good !
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yay! Thanks a lot.. 🙂
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So true, very nicely penned.
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Thanks a lot.. 🙂
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Nice!! Both – the idiom and the poem.
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Thank you so much.. 🙂
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PYRRHIC VICTORY- That used to be my hot favorite phrase just a few days back!! I always tried to somehow use it in almost anything I wrote!! XD
The poem is beautiful though ❤
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He he.. good to hear that! Thank you so much.. 🙂
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You’re welcome💖
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Never heard this one before. Good poem!
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Thank you so much.. 🙂
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Wonderful 😊
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Thanks a lot.. 🙂
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