Hard Pressed
You sometimes remember but then forget,
that high fever causes your cheeks to flush;
The softest parts inside remain at risk,
pure happiness is a dangerous bet;
In the midst of that adrenaline rush
now you’re believing that it can exist;
So close to the accord that you deserve
careful that white flag is not an ambush;
Held prisoner subjected to
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Categories:
hard pressed, emotions, feelings, happiness,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
Have Confessed I Am Hard Pressed
Have Confessed I Am Hard Pressed
Have confessed that I am hard pressed;
This certainly surely should be stressed;
About think;
Thought sink,
Or ordinarily we have been obsessed.
Jim Horn
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Categories:
hard pressed, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Trump Was Hard Pressed
Trump Was Hard Pressed
To answer for crimes was hard pressed
So in the end he finally confessed
On one way street went in wrong direction
They said he had a loose connection
Not only that out was completely stressed.
Jim Horn
Especially for AD.
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Categories:
hard pressed, allegory, analogy, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Hard Pressed
hard pressed to search for
certainty, hard pressed to
make some sense, hard
pressed to end all these
frustrations, hard pressed to
submit to something (if
only it will help you relax),
hard pressed to try again
as if you hadn’t failed before,
hard pressed to fail again
as if you’ll stop trying, hard
pressed to want what others
want, hard pressed to
compare, hard pressed
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Categories:
hard pressed, life,
Form: Free verse
The Hard-Pressed Holiday Dater
all the glitz, glam & gluttony
that comes with this time of year
in our overstuffed, overwhelmed,
neon-light-extravaganza-empire
provoke through the television screen
on the streets, in the restaurants, in the
parks, in the stores, in the warmest of places &
the coldest,
a sense that one must be attached to another
to frolic with the fishes
to be capable of anything close
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Categories:
hard pressed, life, may, new year,
Form: Free verse
Hard Pressed Search For Positivity
Today I’m reminded of regrets caused by life’s imperfections;
Once upon a time my face didn’t suit expectations;
And I can’t help but pounder; was she but a victim also.
Practicality continually told me we were both being foolish
But my heart; it would not listen;
Love won is worth the gamble it contended;
But the delusions of society turned
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Categories:
hard pressed, introspectionlost, lost,
Form: Free verse