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Best Pay A Price Poems

Below are the all-time best Pay A Price poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of pay a price poems written by PoetrySoup members


Birds Eye Self Surveillance
Theres a man in the sky, can you see him hiding, crouching behind the grey mist rising. 
Thunder and lightning seems to guide him to...

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Categories: pay a price, 7th grade, blue, change,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member What Annoys Me
What Annoys Me.

         The Wedding of Rubbish and Nonsense.

Dearest readers; Please stand, for the big day has...

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Categories: pay a price, betrayal,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Execution of Paul Carter
My name is Paul Carter and I want to tell you my tragic story
About the wrong path I chose in life, that wasn't one of...

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Categories: pay a price, america, dark, death, drink,
Form: Narrative
Sweet Purpose
I have come to the point of decision
And I have decided in favour of love

Wisdom is not solely measured by experience
But more by capacity for...

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Categories: pay a price, inspirational, on work and
Form: Narrative
Premium Member An Ordinary Girl - Translation From Tagore
Sharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his...

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Categories: pay a price, life, loss,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member December Chill
December brings the snow and ice
Early morning frosts; the trees are bare
Stay inside, keep warm heed my advice. 

If you venture out you'll pay the...

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Categories: pay a price, december, snow, winter,
Form: Villanelle
Help Me Please
Where do I begin
To ask the question
And do I divulge my sin
Reveal obsession
Please I need your wise advice
I’m walking on thin ice
What if I pay...

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Categories: pay a price, anxiety, chocolate, destiny, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
I Wish To Be Your Angel
I can cry at night when the world is lost in sleep,
      I can divert my mind with your thoughts...

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Categories: pay a price, angel, care, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Saved Me With Your Love
Saved me with your love

When this crazy world, just don't make sense,
And the daggers wound without pretense,
You came running in my defense,
and saved me with...

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Categories: pay a price, devotion, feelings, for her,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Paradise Perspective
I stubbed my toe ...

  (I do this a lot since turning fifty-five,
   when everything I picked up to read began going...

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Categories: pay a price, adventure, appreciation, beach, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tribute To Harambe, the Gorilla
Harambe, living in captivity-
mock forest of the Cincinnati Zoo,
within our human world, well as can be,
beneath those peering eyes, that visit you.

And what bad fate...

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Categories: pay a price, animal, death, sad, tribute,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Gold-Digger
Well, now that I am registered officially,
into the ranks of those who search and dig,
for gold, and paper that's done and serialized,
or plastic that buys...

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Categories: pay a price, friendship, inspirational, life, philosophy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Moments In Time
The sweetest sounds of burning trees
A gentle stroking in the breeze
The calm has lasted past the storm
Cloudy visions, Satan’s roar
Too many sights have passed my...

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Categories: pay a price, adventure, animal, art, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member From Now On - Reflection On Retirement
From now on 
Mornings will never be the same

How fortunate I feel
Can’t take it for granted
Everyday I am thankful
Not rich but enough to get by

Free...

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Categories: pay a price, change, future, hope, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paid In Full
P ierced for our transgressions,
A crown of thorns upon His head.
I ndecent agony Jesus suffered,
D ying to give us life instead.

I niquities demanded payment.
N one...

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Categories: pay a price, faith, jesus, life, love,
Form: Acrostic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things