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Best Payin Poems

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Payin' Tension
Now Burly Turly weren’t much tall,
In fact, I’d say the man was short—
But he was plum stout to a fault
And fer as nice, he was...

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© Glen Enloe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: payin, cowboy-western, depression, funny
Form: Cowboy Poetry



Hard Times
When hard times come they sit a spell,
Like kin folk come to stay
A-packin' troubles, pets an' kids
That always get ‘n your way.
It's drought an' flood,...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: payin, cowboy-western, family, funny, life,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Last Train To Heaven
The train pulled out of the
Clouds singing
Harmonies

I asked the conductor for
Some change

He said    "son    don't you know?
Nobody's payin'"

I said...

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Categories: payin, absence,
Form: Free verse
Expensive Paperweight
I see you straight tripping
When you see my cell phone still flipping
Yeah, you think you're the shizzle
Drop it in water it still gonna fizzle
How's this...

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Categories: payin, slam, technology,
Form: Rhyme
The Cowboy Way
Watch those buckaroos lose their insides when saddled to a wild one untied it’s fer a sight when they ride . Yiddy –up was the...

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Categories: payin, adventure, cowboy-western, death, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Perfect Circle Piston Rings
The Perfect Circle Plant was where most kids went to work as a general rule,
To begin a life of donkeywork upon graduation from the local...

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Categories: payin, funny, work, life, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sergeant Major O'Malley
Sergeant Major O'Malley, Seventh Cavalry, had served nigh on three decades.
He rose through the ranks havin' served in squads, companies and brigades.
Second lieutenants were nuisances...

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Categories: payin, funnyhorse,
Form: Rhyme
Jesse J
Well they done took away ma pension
whilst I waren’t payin no tention.
Never thought thet thar could happen,
Seems ma face they keep a slappin'.

Ah trusted all...

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Categories: payin, business, cowboy-western, business,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa has worn that mystical smile on her mug for over 500 years!
Who is this mysterious lady who at us from The Louvre benignly...

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Categories: payin, art, funny, mysterywoman, smile,
Form: Rhyme
Morning Bell
Morning Bell
 
To my best friend,
whom I know so well,
and is do dear to me, 
no word can tell.
 
But this I write,
trying to find...

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Categories: payin, cowboy-western, friendship
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Songs and Noises
Altos and sopranos
Blend - songs
Are heard in the distance . .. . . . .. . .
bass and tenors sings songs of joy
Noises...(pleasant noises to...

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Categories: payin, angst, confusion, hope, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aint Nuthin To Do In Lubbock Texas
Ain’t Nuthin To Do in Lubbock
By David J Walker

The Killer came to town 
Jerry lee Lewis and his pal
Jim Ed Brown 
Playin at the municipal...

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Categories: payin, music,
Form: Rhyme
(part 2 of 2) Where the Sky Is Black, and the Cold Wind Blows...
A new chance has blossomed
Til the police pull up
She ain't feelin' too awesome
And her mind is made up

Chance to confess
To drop to her knees
But she's...

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© Alex Brown  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: payin, angst, confusion, death, depression,
Form: Quatrain
Super Saiyan
6/3/17



Continual verbatim
And ultimatums

Better know what they're payin'
During times of economic downfall and inflation

I got no time for playin' 
And don't care what others are sayin'

Skills...

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Categories: payin, dedication, fun, how i
Form: Rhyme
Old As Dirt
You know that you’re old as dirt
When your whole body does hurt—
You grab a cane ‘stead of quirt
And you’re just too old to flirt.

It’s when...

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© Glen Enloe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: payin, cowboy-western, funny, life, people,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

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