Last Word Poems | Examples

Terminal Analysis

No matter the subject or topic
tho' it may burn will I ever learn
would it hurt if my lips were to close
as whatever I submit suggest propose
she will be myopic
nay-say gainsay contradict oppose
may as well hold my breath
as every word I utter
receives the kiss of death
and melts in my mouth like butter
should I assert it's what she does it's her wont
'No I don't,' is her depiction
in contentious rebuttal
thereby confirming my conviction
and morning noon and night
she'd like to be I'll also mention
tho' none too subtle
the epicentre of my attention
is it a female thing or only her compulsion
for at the end of the day
it's not the last word she wants
it's the final say

she gets the last word

She’ll scream like hell I’m your mother!
And introject There’s no other!
But your disrespect
Means all must expect
We’re nature’s target to smother

escalator got the last word

are you smarter than a fifth grader?
I cannot even outthink a road grader.
I am not a professor or super market demonstrator.
Are you smarter than a fifth grader?

I doubt I can put cheese on a cracker, said McFrator.
I am dumber than you are, said his sister, Mater.
I do not even understand how to peel a tomater.
This tickled our friend, Samuel McFrator.

Are you smarter than a fifth grader?
They asked of a passing escalator.
The escalator got persnickety said Crater.
She stuck up her nose and walked off with Slater.

Slater is a friend who is way dumber than a fifth grader.
He once lost a chess contest with a road grader.
We are losers said McFrator, Crater, Slater and Mater.
The escalator yelled “You are all dumber than a fifth grader!”

Mystery's Last Word

Mysteries are what the eye can not see
What  the mind does not know 
Beneath  the earth and ocean
Mysteries of the forces of nature 
IN everything 

And how it create drops of rain
To the thousands of  horizons
After  horizons and Back Again  
THINK  REAL HARD  IT'S  GOD.
GOD IS THE  BIGGEST  MYSTERY OF ALL.

The Last Word

I think love requires
little more than willing – 

if doors and windows
are closed and shuttered,
fresh air and sunlight
cannot find a healing sliver – 

but slightly ajar, light and
warmth begin to restore
blessed comfort-places – 

For love is truly mystical,

transcending logic and
all reason; outpacing Time
and Space's trackless, furthest
distance – 

we are born for fondly dreaming

our heart's cravings, when properly
in tune, likened to the silvered 
strings of angelic harps –  

Men may try to take all joy from life...
But God has The Last Word – which is 
always, Love!

The Last Word

From then on, the last word the groom will ever get –  is “I do!”

May 27, 2021

The Last Word, Age of Indolence Ii

But I should have known 
she wasn’t through.
She snuggled close 
to whisper in my ear,
and said I have a message for you.
She sounded sexy and sultry 
and licked my ear.
Cuddling with me,
I had both hands full 
of my favorite parts of her.
You’re lucky I love you, lazy old man.  
So, listen here!  
I’m not going to fool around with you
until your yard work is through.
I had a talk with the contractor about
the swing set and the back deck.
He said they can start next weekend
So, He and I signed a contract, 
then I stroked the check.
I love my grandchildren and I love you,
don’t ever make me choose 
between them or you.
If you don’t start teaching 
this little dog to do what I say,  
She’s going to wake up 
in a shelter run by the S. P. C. A.
When I ask you to trim the bushes?
and you smile like the dirty old man you are,
this time it won’t get you very far.
Now as for helping you 
with your (wish it was bigger,)
I think we fit just right, 
and we're going to try
something new tonight.
Now get your hands off me
and go wash that filthy car.

Last Word By Kuldip Medhi

Met her first 
Where 
The meadow stopped 
Behind the mountains 
Benched on the buffalo's back 
A cowherd 
Played a riverine tune 
Where 
The bow-shaped river 
Flowed north 
The white yachts 
Were sailing east 
Like the shadow of 
A flight of cranes on water 
Where 
At the market near the river 
Away from the crowd 
She clutched herself 
To keep selling tears 
Folks haggled 
And gladly bought 
The pearl-like tears 

It was then I asked her 
The reason for such discounted sale 
She accounted - 
A tree's tears have no value 
Only to be burnt to ashes 
A seedling grows into a matured tree. 


Translated by Prof. Anita Baruwa from the original "Xeh Kotha" in Assamese.

Bobby Had To Have the Last Word

Beneath lies last-word Bobby Fife
who never paid heed to his wife.
She said that mountain was too high.
He yelled, “You’re wrong. The top I’ll try----!"


Date: April 13, 2019
Contest Title: An Epitaph to Make Us Laugh
Sponsor: Jesse Rowe


February 4, 2023
entered in Brian Strand's Your Option Poetry Contest

Last Word

Once said
Note the feel
Yet unpaid
Last word still


Once paid
Feel the gap 
Last word said
Thrill blots map


Sense sight
Die with will
In last light
That blots feel


Feel light
Blurs the feel
As last sight
In lost will


The end 
Comes too soon
Fast last pen
Writes of moon


Death screams
In short gist
Like a dream
Blur as mist




Leon Enriquez
15 November 2018
Singapore

Mom Has the Last Word

Rainbow hair is in the teens say,
A Mohawk please, I told Miss Bee.
That would truly make my day
My mother heard these words you see.
Conservative cut is staying,
A smart choice, as she is paying.

Last Word To Begin

My constant companions…
  words reel and recast

Like a lady in waiting,
  they clear every path

Extending forever,
  to store what I feel

My thoughts they intrude,
  my meanings revealed

My past they’ve forgiven,
  my future ignored

They rest in my prayers,
  hopes and wishes restored

I know at the end,
  but one thing will remain

A last word to take with me
  —to begin once again

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)

The Last Word

Mellow moments move
Gather gracious grooves


Wordy winding way
Profound puzzle play


Lavish laughter leaps
Succinct senses slip


Dazzle dreamy day
Sensuous setting say


Nothing naughty now
Hurling happy how


Seeing something sweet
Fortune flavours feat




Leon Enriquez
21January 2018
Singapore

Last Word Poem - Bitter Now the Fall

BITTER NOW THE FALLbitter now the Fall... Jack Frost cold
squirrels hoarding... burying nuts
jay's... birds... clever... stealing... so bold
listen... squirrel so irate... tuts...
days shorter... moon lights the darkness

ivy... fords shelter from the cold...
birds benefit...  dense the foliage
holly bids...  welcome to its fold
who teaches this vital knowledge...
days shorter... moon lights the darkness
#LAST WORD POETRY,

Last Word Poetry - the Skylark

each morn when dusk bids farewell, hark
hark natures batton, readies the dawn
it's virtuosos, the skylark
readies, too the daylighting morn
from up high, led the dawn chorus

unseen it does sing so loud, hark 
the dawn chorus now inspired
so loud a crescendo, all hark
skylark did all as  required
from up high, led the dawn chorus

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Last Word Poetry Format:
[1] 5 lined stanza’s, as many as you like. The fifth line of each the refrain, and must remain the same throughout the piece.
[2] 2 stanzas minimum.
[3] All lines in iambic tetrameter, including the refrain.
[4] In the first line of each stanza the last word must be identical (LAST WORD), poetry.
[5] Rhyming schemes: ABABC. AABBC, ABBAC

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