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Best Press Down Poems

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Wall Street
Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth....

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Categories: press down, political, slam, social, war,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Moment, Most Rare
We merge ...
          I, rooted in your core
        ...

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Categories: press down, passion, sensual, soulmate, true
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Words
I will thank you
For your voice.
It adds a weight to the hem of the veil
That will press down
The curtain of secrecy.

Your words, your octave, your...

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Categories: press down, deep, longing, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cookie Cutter Day
On a whim, 
a demon will grab a fist full of mind.
Slap it down- roll it out- sprinkle it with lye. 
Then pull out its...

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Categories: press down, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Hot Water Heater Woes
My faucets run cold, what IS this about?
My hot-water-heater-tank pilot light's out!
Press down that red button and click 'til I pout
Then spew out a string...

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Categories: press down, angst,
Form: Light Verse



Just Don'T Quit
Reaching out unconsciously, not knowing where to embark upon,
This damned spirit is grasping, doesnt know what else to do, 
With no vexed thoughts on whomever...

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Categories: press down, devotion, family, happiness, hope,
Form: Light Verse
The Gift
The gift of a man maketh room for him,
The gift of healing,the gift of understanding,
The gift of given to the poor,this I long for,
The gift...

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Categories: press down, encouraging, life, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member A Push In My Pen
There's a push in my pen 
   a coax in my keyboard
A prod 'cross my fingers
   a poke 'top my brain

Each...

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Categories: press down, motivation, poetry, poets, strength,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Touch and Go
There are pets and then there are people in fur coats.              ...

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Categories: press down, angel, car, fun, mom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Calvary Hill
Calvary Hill. 

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I curse the day I ever entered Jerusalem,
I curse even more ever meeting Gestas.

The night chills seem to burn in to my wounds
and...

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Categories: press down, inspirational
Form: I do not know?
Another Mountaintop - Erotica
(Several here have encouraged me to post some of my erotica, so here's a start)

My thoughts fly back to you,
and to the facets of your...

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Categories: press down, passion,
Form: Free verse
Missing You
It has been a long time since
I have been away from you
and tonight, I miss your soft-glowing
presence, and the serenading shadows 
conducting the silky symphony...

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Categories: press down, absence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Top of the Family Tree
Top of the family tree
Looking down on young life
The future what is there?
A chance or more chances
To become more~improve
The deceased press down hard  

Train...

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Categories: press down, family,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Scattered Rhymes With the Occasional Slant and Little Meaning
When the poems sound ordinary,
change your pattern of life.
Live more than write awhile.
Go out and run a mile.
Get yourself a new wife.
Visit an observatory.

Sit and...

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Categories: press down, life,
Form: Rhyme
Deep Time
There are oceans in the ridges
near our house.
Ripple marks and sand slips
set in stone. The long weathering
of the world exposed them
and eventually will wear them...

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Categories: press down, humanity, time,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs