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Pressure Poems - Poems about Pressure

Pressure Poems - Examples of all types of poems about pressure to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for pressure.
Premium Member Literary Standstill
...Am I meant to be found? Do not force it let it come. Let it come, Like you used to. Filing away the words, overproduced. Distraction is no bad thing, I tell myself. Coincidence, Nothing......Read the rest...
Categories: pressure, angst, care, dark, desire,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ledger of Love: PART I
... Ledger of Love In the dim-lit chambers of the Victorian home, Resides a wife, her heart a silent tome. Once, love’s flame burned bright within her breast, But now a thin whisp, a ghost......Read the rest...
Categories: pressure, confusion, desire, heartbreak, longing,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The teacher
...Working on borrowed time Sleep a passing memory Creation a chain to be forged Crunching out the keys of the board Alone and tiresome Confused but implored We seek the strength to know more ......Read the rest...
Categories: pressure, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Fear And Fearless
...Courage of a plane Crossing lightning and pressure Made passengers pray.......Read the rest...
Categories: pressure, courage, humanity, power, prayer,
Form: Haiku
Come To Me
... Authors Quote: "Trust in His power" he said, I was lost like doubting Thomas displaced in a moment of doubt and erased from all of certainty Questions unanswered for so long plagued......Read the rest...
Categories: pressure, analogy,
Form: Free verse



Why Did I Become A Poet
...Does anyone ask a bird to sing or a rose to bloom? Does anyone comfort a butterfly in times of gloom? Reaping nectar is built into a honeybee's instinct. Aren't thoughts and feelings, like chains ......Read the rest...
Categories: pressure, poems, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Ordered discord
...Smeared In a pattern. This Rorschach abstraction. Flowing like satin. In cascading fashion. Symmetry, mimicry. Mirroring the mind. Coddling, throttling. Either or is fine. Full to burstin......Read the rest...
Categories: pressure, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Little Things that Make Love Blossom
...I'm not a traditional poet As you may think Wole Soyinka Who writes in form and pattern I'm only a man of romantics Who love to paint words and polish lines Until it becomes flower verse The......Read the rest...
Categories: pressure, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Man On A Roller Coaster Sonnet
...It jolts and shakes as it carroms around, my joints seethe at the pressure exerted, it rips upward until high off the ground, I hear the excited cries of my kid. Oh, to be young, and has such a g......Read the rest...
Categories: pressure, age, child, endurance, how
Form: Sonnet
Saboteur
...If you're not a well-paid saboteur You should look into the job List me as a reference on your resume And on the day I get the call I'll tell them all about your Inability to accept responsibili......Read the rest...
Categories: pressure, anger, betrayal, boyfriend, break
Form: Rhyme
If only you knew
...Written for the poetry contest "If only you knew" Sponsor: Silent One 2nd Place This poem is inspired from the song “liability” by Lorde. sat down with my brother the other day asked him if......Read the rest...
Categories: pressure, angst, cry, dance, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summer Loss
...Eyes gaze over lines, heart buckles under the pressure. A lonely ride, it's been pronounced, I've lost everything. Tiny violins between their ears, large trumpets in mine. A wake-up call? Wh......Read the rest...
Categories: pressure, beauty, blue, deep, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Playing Games with an Ancient
...I returned home after forty years to my home island of Hawaii. Its preferred nickname is the Big Island, lovingly a.k.a., the Orchid Isle, and yes, a.k.a., the Volcanic Island. Rightly named ......Read the rest...
Categories: pressure, analogy, anxiety, change, courage,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
My Own Demon of Destruction
...When the challenge has become the quest The pressure is great to outshine The fear tries to crawl to the surface Again will I fall victim to my ambition The stacks so high In time I have months......Read the rest...
Categories: pressure, adventure, fear, stress,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Such a Time as This
...[The Lord] "Why do you throw up your hands at Me? Turn around and take what I give you!" [The Defeated] "These people stubbornly refuse your grace. Their brazen-faces threaten violence. They ......Read the rest...
Categories: pressure, bible, christian, conflict, corruption,
Form: Free verse

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