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Best Pressing Poems

Below are the all-time best Pressing poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of pressing poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Love In the Silence of the Soul
As a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls

I heard the words destined to me
“Be...

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Categories: pressing, death, love, sorrow,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Dream
Dream

My mirrored reflection silently speaks

You honor me with your vulnerability
Your scars of life
Your unhealed wounds of betrayal

Dream journals tattoo your body
Your open arms of desire...

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Categories: pressing, appreciation, blessing, child, dream,
Form: Free verse
This Gypsy Soul
This gypsy soul is on the road
It leaves castles far behind
It abandons ghostly mist
which sabotages the caravan of life
It passes along the mountainside
 by golden...

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Categories: pressing, absence, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Body Song
my fingertips
touch ...
tender, but with melodic intent
you tremble
just SO ...
and sigh sweetly
the delightful answer
to my questioning hands
a gentle press ...
your supple curves against me
fitting me...

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Categories: pressing, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...

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Categories: pressing, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse



.."?Your Beauty!"..
Blackberry kisses, within the celestial starlit mornings hour....

Stirring these passions aglow, amid the flickering flames of desire ~

Caressing such thoughts of you; smouldering embers, that...

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Categories: pressing, faith, life, love, passionlonging,
Form: I do not know?
This Gypsy Soul
 This gypsy soul is on the road

It leaves castles far behind

It abandons ghostly mist

which sabotages the caravan of life

It passes along the mountainside

by golden...

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Categories: pressing, adventure, joy, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Visitor - POTW- A Collaboration With July Morning
POTW 28 January 2018

Prologue:
A beautiful extra-terrestrial female researcher is sent down to a remote island to observe earth and beam her findings back to her...

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Categories: pressing, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
Swept up into piles; everywhere 
Abouts; in collected heaps all 
Around.              ...

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Categories: pressing, philosophy, senses,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Press '1' For English
I grew a beard
while waiting for you
it looks more and more
like I'll never get through

My left ear was aching
I switched to my right
This perpetual holding
has...

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Categories: pressing, funny, humorous, parody, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One Kiss
WITH  JUST ~ONE  KISS

I rise, like fire in your eyes.
Feel the burn, as I discharge my flames.
Like Frankenstein, 
I will make you come...

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Categories: pressing, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Always Yours
The handwriting became darker,
And I imagined your hands pressing upon the page,
Wavering whether to write your thoughts or not
Soon, sure, the wavering became conviction,
And in...

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Categories: pressing, heart, introspection, passion, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member 8 Little Egypts
Something strange

and unexplainable comes this way,
this way, it comes to us sly and fast, 
some say, perhaps, 
it has already arrived, 
it walks unseen, in...

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Categories: pressing, easter, humanity, words,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Tell-Tale Heart- Twist On Poe
It wasn’t that I’d done you wrong
I'd welcomed you into my heart’s home
I'd cherished you
and I had fed you 
I'd protected you
I had let you...

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Categories: pressing, betrayal, love, murder,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Candy Store
The little girl stood outside the candy store
Pressing her nose against the window
Her lips wet 
Trying hard to swallow
What the sight of those candies 
Produced...

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Categories: pressing, allegory, candy, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

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