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Best Pay The Piper Poems

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Premium Member Pay the Piper
She sat on her butt for a year 
Eating cookies, pretzels and beer
Now  looked at the scale
And started to wail
God, look at the size...

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Categories: pay the piper, food, funny
Form: Limerick



Premium Member A Progressive Shadow
A Progressive Shadow

A series of real challenges and troubling world events 
In our twenty-first century give us a definite reason and
An urgency to pause and...

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Categories: pay the piper, change, earth, history, international,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Green Eggs, Spam and Grits
Green eggs, Spam and grits
Sam and Pam had their fill,
Then made their way to Main Street
Down WhoDat’s Whatsup Hill.

Waived "Hi!" to their neighbors
To show them...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pay the piper, bullying, cat, courage, fantasy,
Form: Light Verse
She Belongs To the Other Room
The hailings in the coridor of corruption
to the echoes of silence in the streets
Sirens whispering tales of wars
marines marching on looted lots
Justice is strangled by...

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Categories: pay the piper, abuse, analogy, betrayal,
Form: Verse
The silent song of Chester Gray
 
The silent song of Chester Gray, 
a murderous affair 
This quiet soul of little word, 
not known of him to share 
This eve upon...

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Categories: pay the piper, mystery,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Enchantress With the Greenest of Eyes
The Enchantress with the Greenest of Eyes

This lady is quite lovely and most fascinating with the greenest of eyes,
And she’ll easily captivate and bewitch all...

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Categories: pay the piper, allegory, dark, evil, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Automania
Hey! What if a computer were a car?
So much more economical, by far!

You see at once advantages galore
With all that high-tech wizardry in store.

A virtual...

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Categories: pay the piper, computer-internet, confusion, fantasy, funny,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member My Time Has Come
My time has come... my time has come
To rise and meet the day.
In hope the woe that follows me
Has been lost and gone astray.
As I...

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Categories: pay the piper, devotion, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
Layers
As you peel back one layer you will a bit more of me
Each layer defines parts that the naked eye may not see
The outer layer...

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Categories: pay the piper, caregiving, life, christmas, son,
Form: Quatrain
The Legend of Jack's Father
This is the legend of Jack’s father
and to brag about him Jack won’t even bother
‘cause truth is not a virtue he inherits
and integrity’s a trait...

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© Gayle Rodd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pay the piper, humor, silly,
Form: Ballad
Fox In the Fable
Fox in the fable all cards on the table
My life fits well in Pandora's box
A heart refusing a steady beat
With confusion, it pounds and knocks

When...

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Categories: pay the piper, courage, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Preponderance of Guilt

50-50
was the divorce court decree
She and I both bear the blame,
yet, why does an 800-pound gorilla
preponderance of guilt
weigh heavy on the back of me?
I know...

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Categories: pay the piper, divorce, marriage, perspective, sad
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Amid Chaos
Your garden is filled with bunnies –
 I see them hopping around like this ….
Oh, I have been fighting those things for so long; 
my...

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Categories: pay the piper, history, life, time,
Form: Narrative
The Sun God
The Sun God
The greatest shining sun of fire
All bow to him the raging monster

The Earth it breathes other planets cower
We were chosen to live under...

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Categories: pay the piper, art,
Form: Free verse
The London Dead End
Tis a hallowed place...
This cobbled maze of alleyways
Which bond these rat infested streets
Yet, gas lamps lit, stand betwixt the corners
And lone Bobbies patrol beneath their...

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Categories: pay the piper, angst, death, depression, history,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things