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Under Pressure Poems - Poems about Under Pressure

Under Pressure Poems - Examples of all types of poems about under 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 under pressure.
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: under 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: under 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: under 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: under 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: under 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: under 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: under 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: under 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: under 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: under 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: under pressure, bible, christian, conflict, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Appearances
...The distress... fatigue, combined with restlessness, tossing, and turning. Assuming I possess more energy than I truly do because what is worse, exhausting oneself or lying there, depleted? Many of u......Read the rest...
Categories: under pressure, city, cry, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member WANNABE ACE ROTHSTEIN THE CARNIVAL BOSS
...YOU CLAIM TO BE ACE ROTHSTEIN A BOSS COMMITING HIEST ON DISABLED ELDERLY PERSONS BREAKING INTO MOBLE HOME GOLF CARTS AND MEDICATION BOXES RETRIEVING ANTIDEPRESSANTS HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE MEDIC......Read the rest...
Categories: under pressure, freedom, remembrance day, spoken
Form: Free verse
Violin
...A violin is like a lover-- A beautiful work of Art-- Precious, delicate, fragile. It has to be handled with care, Caressed, fondled, touched, Hugged--but not too tight, Or break it might And h......Read the rest...
Categories: under pressure, feelings, love, remember, simile,
Form: Free verse
In the secretive corners of the soul
...In the secretive corners of the soul, Where you are guided by the whispers of loss, There hides the seed of poetry — A precious stone born from the unseen pressure of pain. An ancient ritual in a......Read the rest...
Categories: under pressure, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

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