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Best Paydays Poems

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Premium Member Gus
Many are the 'characters' I met while serving my nation.
Seems there's always one who stands out in every organization!
In Bermuda (where I fought the Korean...

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Categories: paydays, funny, may,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Bust Today, the Only Way
take, take, who’s on the make? and do some
	
people have a vested stake?

now tax is surely a painless way, to right

whole countries  and save...

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Categories: paydays, business
Form: Rhyme
Three Tuesdays
My dearest Anna,

It has been three Tuesdays since I lost you.
I will never forget seeing you, just lying there.
I went to our regular coffee shop,...

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Categories: paydays, loneliness, longing, loss, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member I Want But Don't Need
I Want, But Don't Need

Yes, "I Want, But Don't Need" is my waistwatcher creed 
     as I walk by each vending...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paydays, candy, drink, food,
Form: Light Verse
Fading Memories
I miss those
Morning grass underneath my feet
Or listening to lifetime stories on repeat.
I ask you, my son,
Where has that all gone?

I miss that
Wind flying pass...

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Categories: paydays, change,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Three-Lady Massage
An elephant asked her for a massage
She said, You’re huge; we will use the garage
  That massage took three ladies
  Who had very...

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Categories: paydays, animal, desire, humorous, relationship,
Form: Limerick
Keep Your Mind Right
World wide they're wranglin' up my folks,
So I stay woke 'cause it's no joke,
We came from slavery & hangings by rope,
To wantin' dollars in bulk,

Tryin'...

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Categories: paydays, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Somewhere Somebody
Obsolete is the byword
that keeps us buying anew,
products that last forever
simply would never do.

Paydays come in many forms
some junk is another’s treasure,
so creating problems to...

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© Bob Quinn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paydays, introspection,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Graze In Daze
Short weekends and long weekdays
School’s out then it’s onto résumés and workdays
Mondays dragging on through to Fridays
Long commutes on highways, subways and tramways
Toiling for okays,...

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Categories: paydays, life, nostalgia, perspective, retirement,
Form: Monorhyme
Didnt' See It
Walk in the door
Tables scream opportunities
Is this the best solution
Best possible income for those with degrees

Seems so wrong 
work soo hard behind a desk
Supposed to...

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© Lynn Dolly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paydays, work, me,
Form: Free verse
The Life and Times of Sourmash
Her name came from her native heritage from the Navajo Tribe
I got this story because I offered her a bribe
She works at McDonald's as a...

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Categories: paydays, funny, girlfriend-boyfriend, social, 6th
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Fort Laramie - a Trooper's Story
At dawn the bugle's piercin' call roused troopers for another wretched day,
Of curryin' horses, shovelin' manure, drillin', guard duty and gatherin' hay!
Another day of bellerin'...

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Categories: paydays, military,
Form: Rhyme
No Terror By Night Or Arrow By Day
no terror by night or arrow by day can devour or destroy me or lead me astray
the devil gets played as prophets get paid
diminsihed is...

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Categories: paydays, religionday, me, night, day,
Form: Rhyme
Two Faces At the Same Time
She looks like a Mede,
talks like a Persian
Got Democrat soft bray skin,
but underneath is
hard tusk tongue Republican

Girl Pharaoh-day
loves to zombie talk Friday,
while sleepwalk listening on...

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Categories: paydays, allegory, imagery, satire, word
Form: Dramatic Monologue
All I Want For Christmas
All I want for Christmas,
is fairness for all,
when one falls down,
they will get that bailout call.
Plenty to eat,
and warmth all around,
happiness in their household,
a little...

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Categories: paydays, fantasy
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things