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Best Presto Poems

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


Presto
The bed feels so much purrfect on the morning warm.
Comfort holds like sleepy pillowed arms
If I could just say "Presto" and return 
I'd rise to...

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Categories: presto, hope
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member The Night Awaits the Dawn
Some boys with cheek play hide and seek within a house condemned
their faces gaunt reflecting want that’s hard to comprehend.

With veiled excuse an old recluse...

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Categories: presto, death, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Winter Sonata - POTD
Winter Sonata 11-29-23
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Winter Sonata

In grave allegro solo grey gathers,
Strings of winter fantasias
Brewing staccatos of frozen fall remnants,
Downbeats for the first movement
As shivering sleet wipes away...

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Categories: presto, song, winter,
Form: Free verse
America Is Everyone
America is everyone,
There are people who believe otherwise
But America is not 
Just some middle class white man,
Living a suburban life,
Drinking coffee every morning,
Eating breakfast with...

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© Emily Diaz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: presto, america, community, culture, deep,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Hook, Line and Sinker
The fishing of Scotland's coast
To be honest I have to boast
Please come take a look 
And dangle your hook
And join me in traditional toast

My favourite...

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Categories: presto, funny, sea
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Never Land Part 4
A sodden dreg with wooden leg is dancing for a dime,

to sacred psalms and other balms, all ticking with the time.

He’s 22, he’s almost through,...

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Categories: presto, fantasy, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Limerick Crochet: Once Swiss Miss Wanted To Make Cake With Cheese
Limerick: Once Miss Swiss wanted to make cake with cheese

Once Miss Swiss wanted to make cake with cheese
So she bought a cow, a dog and...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: presto, humor, satire,
Form: Limerick
Cold War
A series of hello’s, and only that;
We are each other’s familiar stranger.
Those glances ***** yet unsuspecting,
My soul begins to wonder-
My thoughts, they dance and wander.

A...

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© Cheri Teng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: presto, age, angel, august, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moderna Commedia, Canto 1, Part 2
Egli in tal modo il proprio carro aggancia
A quello del bieco suo alleato
Che adesso verso l’est la sfida lancia.
He in this way his chariot hooks
To...

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Categories: presto, dream,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Know That I Am There
It's the best I can do to explain myself
is standing in between it all, so I can view both sides.
Who are you to say that...

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Categories: presto, faith, growth, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shoulda Read the Fine Print
So many years ago, in my teen years,
   our mom received a gift, her newest 'toy',
      a Presto...

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Categories: presto, food, mom, stress,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Internet a Boon
Connecting through a myriad of sites
Information at the press of a button
Presto, life made simple. 
But who can handle this overload
Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, WhatsApp
Am...

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Categories: presto, internet,
Form: Free verse
To the Victor Goes the Spoils
To The Victor Goes The Spoils

In the confined playing area within the concrete walls of a squash court..
The next few days will definitely witness intense...

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Categories: presto, anniversary, appreciation, community, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Majic
Magic
 
Hocus pocus
 
Secret motions withheld
 
Bunnies and women disappear
 
Presto...

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Categories: presto, happiness, life, mystery, uplifting
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member Magical School
When I enrolled in magical school
Ma said good luck
Dad called me a fool

He always thought with my IQ
I’d fix people up,
Not saw them in two.

But...

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Categories: presto, education, father, school, son,
Form: Ballad

Book: Reflection on the Important Things