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Best Last Laugh Poems

Below are the all-time best Last Laugh poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of last laugh poems written by PoetrySoup members


We Who Laugh Last, Laugh Best
That foolish stranger who had wandered into town
bickering with folks, trying to shove them around
was nothing more than an old worn-out clown.
Beneath Soup Creek Bridge,...

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Categories: last laugh, community, poets,
Form: Elegy



Last Laugh
They laugh under their sleeves,
as they destroy you,
trumpling you on the ground
like dirt. They laugh visibly
because they think
it doesn't make a difference
if you know their...

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Categories: last laugh, identity, imagery, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Last Laugh?
Democracy now that is a laugh
When the voting is all stacked with graft
And I will give you a plug
If you punch out that lug
If you...

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Categories: last laugh, education, introspection, life, people,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Last Laugh
My girlfriend dumped me, after I stole her wheelchair 
She came crawling back  


Funniest Couplet Ever PC 
Sponsor: L Milton Hankins...

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Categories: last laugh, humorous,
Form: Couplet
The Last Laugh
One day my half brother Eric 
From Oklahoma, visited us
He brought with him some fake vomit
Just to see who he could disgust!

When he was close...

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© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: last laugh, boy, grandmother, humorous, relationship,
Form: Quatrain



The Last Laugh the Poets Pluck Wilfred Owen
To sing an anthem for doomed youth.
Why did I believe the clergy's untruth
and the politicians who I voted for in a polling booth.
and know i...

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Categories: last laugh, war,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Monroe Moon
In glamor-light of sunset
a new crowd of cumulus clouds arrive
and revive a sepia sky-scene—
unworldly woolgatherers gather
spinning fantasy fluff into quixotic yarns
of debutantes dancing with honeymoon...

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Categories: last laugh, age, beauty, lust, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mosquito Mayhem
Today I met a mosquito
It wasn’t very fun
She bit me here, she nipped me there
(she even bit my bum)
But I had the last laugh...
I squashed...

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Categories: last laugh, humorous, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Sticks and Stones
Sticks and stones may break my bones
But your lies will cease to hurt me
You think that you have finally won
But don't think I'll let you...

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Categories: last laugh, life, lost loveheart, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Have To Kill Him
Seek and Destroy


He mocks me
The last laugh shall belong to me
The clown will die a horrible death
Silence of the lambs no more

Seeking solace I take...

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Categories: last laugh, angst, art, death, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Scary-Tom Dick and Harry
There once was a few chaps named Tom, Dick & Harry
Who for Hallows Eve were frightfully scary
For they were trying to undress
A woman you might...

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Categories: last laugh, funny love, halloween, humorous,
Form: Limerick
A Baptism In Blood
A Baptism in Blood


When tragedy cuts clean
through your hopes and your dreams 
like a razor through flesh
All that's left is a mess
Your blood pools on...

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Categories: last laugh, addiction, dark, death, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Last Call
The last-call lights flickered once more
A warning sign she chose to ignore
Her soul, just like her pocketbook
Was as empty as inside the glass she looked

The...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: last laugh, sad, love,
Form: Rhyme
Winter of Deception
The eddy pulls hard against my torso
panic rises and surfaces, my vsion starts to zigzag
I swim harder in the strong currents of confusion

How did my...

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Categories: last laugh, familyfather, father, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Genesis of An Idea
I saw a young lady today who had a tattoo that covered up her arm, 
It wrapped it up completely but it only added to...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: last laugh, funny, life, me, ,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs