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Premium Member The Pressed Rose
(a collaboration with Dilly Dally, great fun, thank you) Lost as the night wraps its ebony shades round red lips like the petals on roses unfurled; in the mist, the soft crimson of beckoning smiles leave me hopeless to shun a temptation like this. Watching eyes in the dark now hang in the air, mouths smothered in silence, are untouched and...

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Categories: pressed, allusion, dream,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member 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: pressed, emotions, feelings, happiness,
Form: Curtal Sonnet



Premium Member I Pressed On
By my decision, and fortitude; I will not ever allow it to flourish, or to grow Finding nothing positive; when "depression" reaches a certain life's low Working through it; nothing worthwhile, is ever gone Choosing to rearrange the word; you'll find, "I pressed on"...

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Categories: pressed, courage, deep, depression, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pressed Flowers
You come back with your mind full of treasures. Today, there was a leaf plucked from a tree still coated in whispers, a shard of sunlight and a bird call you managed to extricate from the sticky strands of a banksia. Yesterday there were shadows rolled up like rubber matts, a butterfly wing and the crystallized tears of a child who was weeping for the moon. What will...

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Categories: pressed, moon, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Under Pressure
To make a superb drink that is unique, grapes must be crushed to make wine. It makes the meal even tastier when friends and family together dine. To obtain the sparkle and brilliance, diamonds form under tons of tremendous pressure. Success cannot be obtained without turmoil, loss, or trials in obtaining a life of leisure. Olives are pressed to...

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Categories: pressed, analogy, future, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Hand Pressed
hand-pressed peruvian water curated by endangered otters...

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Categories: pressed, nonsense,
Form: Crystalline
Premium Member Pressed Upon
pressed upon laid back, coral bells and red roses pretty petals impressed scents and shapes, unfurled regality in the trivial ah, the memory the piquancy 5/3/2022...

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Categories: pressed, flower, imagery, memory,
Form: Free verse
Manly Trousers Pressed Into Ejactulating Spats
MANLY TROUSERS PRESSED INTO EJACTULATING SPATS THIS man of god large belly and buttons with a big gollywog voice \his madness of conviction for personal interpretation //behind psychosis and need for control. ticks and rolls his eyes his lips rubberish proclaiming righteousness: for dullards — persuasive. ]\ Both sides feed the madness; one side — a voice of...

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Categories: pressed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Pressed Rose
pressed rose memories of love sadness Syllable count 2-5-2 Pixabay image Ri_Ya...

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Categories: pressed, romantic,
Form: Haiku
Pressed 'Gainst Energy
. presss girlie any...

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Categories: pressed, celebration, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pressed To My Heart
woven are my pages of poetic verse and rhyme threads of my deepest feeling I have put to paper you will find sorrow, tears, remorse and eternal love words of wisdom, prayers of faith, and poems healing I reach deep, deep into that place within my soul to find the the pain, the grief- then, I...

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Categories: pressed, writing,
Form: Verse
Deep-Pressed
Hanging at the edge of depression Since, never I've known a face of expression A thought of a depressed overthinker Is just like a tear in a river It haunts! For they say am a fey What's left to, but bray? Nothing, did I not adore? But...

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Categories: pressed, deep, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pressed
Bending over she glides the hot iron smoothing creases easing folds running lines pressed over stubborn folds waiting their turn to be folded neatly with two warm palms. Photo No.2 Dated 16.11.2020 Sponsor: Eve Roper....

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Categories: pressed, care, mother,
Form: Tetractys
Flowers Pressed In Book
flowers pressed in book rose petals saved in baggie breathless memories June 2, 2020...

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Categories: pressed, flower, love, memory,
Form: Haiku
Dew-Pressed Evening Night
From the dew pressed evening light there by the biding brightly might of my somber receding life; as others might lesser me could not by depressed inner sigh was and is my stormy life depression within the fold....

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Categories: pressed, heart, love,
Form: Free verse

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