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Best Payoff Poems

Below are the all-time best Payoff poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of payoff poems written by PoetrySoup members


Bang Crime Payoff
This is the latest news about some enterprising individuals...
Making their reputations with a big bang while others slumber..

Presumably amateurs for they dabbled with fire crackers...
Theirs...

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Categories: payoff, community, firework, lost, money,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Rewrite Your Code
“That’s just the way you’re wired”
Sure some settings are predetermined out of the box 
But most adapt over time to the environment 

Growing up we...

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Categories: payoff, growth, introspection, strength, technology,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Forest, the Lot and the Carpetbagger
"The Forest, The Lot and The Carpetbagger"

In the middle
of it all, in 
The Forest,
I was asked
by a soothsayer
to choose 
a number

1, 2 or 3. 

I...

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Categories: payoff, journey, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Name Is Catastrophe
Hell hath no replete replica like an Ohiohell
memom memoboys dispelled with lovelessloss lorn laments
measured in misgiven gravid neutral grautities of cool compromised cruel
capsid cascades of...

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Categories: payoff, angst, child, father, children,
Form: Free verse
To Battered Women
In Bluebeard's castle I kicked open all the windows
With a dead man by my side
Countless women, locked up asunder
Were freed when that castle crumbled
But I...

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Categories: payoff, recovery from..., day, proposal,
Form: Free verse



25 Years of Marriage - 15 Years of Neglect
There's weeds in my
garden I can't use a
ho(e)
The man who could
pull them don't care
no mo

The ****'s overgrown
I might need a plow
But it's waited so
long that...

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Categories: payoff, heartbroken, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
German Pretzels
A rest stop break and next to us
A group of German folken.
The universal language
Filled with gestures soon was spoken.

Perhaps a food tour? All were
Apron-clad and...

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Categories: payoff, people, travel,
Form: Rhyme
My Old Bosses Funeral
MY OLD BOSSES FUNERAL 
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS 


Went to the funeral of my old boss
After several speakers I was at a loss
Who was this person...

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Categories: payoff, eulogy, funeral, humorous, hyperbole,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Feeding Time
Sun sets, sky glows cerise.
Throw the nets, catch showpiece.
     Fish abound, birds take off
     All fly round,...

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Categories: payoff, bird, fish, sunset,
Form: Verse
Another Bad Dream
I had a dream last night it reminded me of chaos
Nightmares, the reality self identified the sacrifices i made do they payoff
The butcher's got the...

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Categories: payoff, appreciation,
Form: Elegy
Nails and Hands
Miss Nails married Mr. Hands
And their marriage is a
“Yes we can- can”

He’s a go-getter and she is too
They’re a power couple
Who have paid their dues

It’s...

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© Lara Wash  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: payoff, friend, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member They Just Choke On Their Artichokes
Just about to launch a new career

Or maybe I should call it a hobby

Dani Spies has certainly caught my attention

With her mouth watering recipes

And easy...

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Categories: payoff, adventure,
Form: Narrative
Motivation
Take me to the verge,
push me to the edge,
Move me with a surge,
lift me with a wedge.

Keep me moving forward
in a line that’s straight,
Remember I’m...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: payoff, inspirational, me, me,
Form: Light Verse
One Out of Six
Who among you is brave enough
(or dumb enough)
to take the challenge
Bet your life to beat the odds ...
One out of six
Load the chamber with one...

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Categories: payoff, change, dark, imagery, perspective,
Form: Epic
My Nose Is Hard
Murk Rammer froze as he felt the nuzzle
of a snub-nosed thirty-eight’s deadly muzzle.
Louis The Retch poked it into his back.
“The jig’s up, Rammer. I ain’t...

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Categories: payoff, mystery, , cute,
Form: Rhyme

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