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Best Clincher Poems

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


Premium Member An Unusual Colonoscopy
I stepped in for my first colonoscopy. I was nervous everyone could see
I had a choice to be awake or put out if I was...

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Categories: clincher, humor, humorous,
Form: Couplet



My Tonsils
I had my tonsils taken out
When I was in first grade.
My younger brother did as well
And we were both afraid.

We didn’t really get it but...

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Categories: clincher, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Finer Points of Going Number Two
We’re lucky to have a math-whiz kid
And one day this is what he did.

He said we all know about going number two
Now I’ve sorted out...

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Categories: clincher, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Autumn's Mellow Fruitfulness
This summer was so crazy with a drought but still where mosquitoes multiplied.
And we’re leaving behind a hurricane that attacked the Midwest from all sides.
The...

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Categories: clincher, adventure, funny, life, seasons,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member This Person
There was a person I could not visit,
That outside of dreams I craved.
A person that transcended thought,
To whose memory I became enslaved.

Because lapsed time had...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clincher, absence, best friend, friendship,
Form: Lyric



Greetings To My Dentist
Greetings to My Dentist

Just thought that I would drop by for a while
So I could show off my shiny, great smile
And also my friend here...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clincher, humorous,
Form: Couplet
To Whom It May Concern
Some say there's nothing poetic about blue-collar work.
I'm here to prove them wrong.

What is a poem?
For one, it has rhythm.
"Well, where's the rhythm
in a discordant...

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Categories: clincher, funny, on work and
Form: Free verse
Wrong Aisle
Behold the beguiled,
they're the ones who always
walk down the wrong aisle
It doesn't take much to catch their eye,
offer a free sample they might like to...

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Categories: clincher, humor, humorous, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Top Secret From the Poetrysoup Undercover Agent: Re, Aliens
Keep this under your hat, guys....I'm just back from an undercover investigation of 
what turned out to be a real hidden nest of Alien invaders....they...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clincher, adventure, confusion, mystery, native
Form: Cowboy Poetry
For God's Sake
FOR GOD’S SAKE

When living "...of the world" despair unfurled.
I lost sight of heaven’s glorious pearl.
Truths shouted out from the depths of my mind.
God’s loving whispers...

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Categories: clincher, faith, introspection, lifegod, me,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Higher Education Today
Dudes, Check out old State U's latest course catalog: 
   OK, Business 101: 'Marijuana - Get High and Stay High'
   Here's...

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Categories: clincher, america, class, school, student,
Form: Rhyme
Cravings
I come to her house
She said It’s her birthday
But there’s no one else
I guess I’d eat anyway..

I start with the strawberry
Soft, red and tempting
So sweet...

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Categories: clincher, funny, love, passion, social,
Form: Rhyme
The Player
He thinks he is bright with his comments of wit.
I am a cute little actress he's picked for his skit.
Key on one of those words...

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Categories: clincher, business, cute, satire, social,
Form: Couplet
The Book the Wizard Wrote Part Three
find the messenger and shoot
she smiles and looks art me and says
you don’t know do you?

plant the seed to take care of number one first
censor...

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Categories: clincher, faith, imagination, on writing
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Upper Echelons
This is me, no airs, pretensions, nor put-ons
Take me, squeeze me, slather my upper echelons 
May detect a wee whimper
Now here comes the clincher
Will sing...

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Categories: clincher, fun,
Form: Limerick

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