Payback Poems

Premium MemberA day of reckoning

Karma suddenly dropped the other shoe
She bit off more that she could chew
Payback’s a b*tch when you’re a snitch



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Categories: payback, judgement,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Memberretribution reveille

justice casts a shadow
telling the time on a sundial
echoing retribution
to come when power play
shifts to reverse
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Categories: payback, relationship,
Form: Tanka


Premium MemberIts payback time

Januery 15 2024 Danial Shepherd took it to law!
In South Australia, he won the case.' 
For he was damaged, in 'the clot shot disgrace'
He was forced against his will' by a 'christian body'?
To climb that hill.' In the real dark of false science.'
He took a shot, a hero Australian I like him a lot.'
Now his
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Categories: payback, drug, education,
Form: Rhyme

Payback 4 Just Rewards Sowed

Just last before my eyes closed
and I fell asleep

My mind wondered and I began
to ponder this

Other people than I before they so to
go to bed at night end their day with
a prayer

And I assume ask for not only for
themselves but their loved ones as
well

Good luck tidings and blessings to
be bestowed upon them the following
day

As this
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Categories: payback, slam,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLimitations of Power

This is:

                      "An ominous notice to all oppressors of worlds"
              





          
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Categories: payback, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme


A Purposely Torn Mosquito Net

Overnight shall sleep The Delayed Inspector
In a swarming-with-mosquitoes Sector:
The exact wish of his host and Rector
Wishing him the company of Malaria’s Vectors
And the keenest battles with Their Directors,
Since he mustn’t The School Inspector hector
But can’t him leave The Victor
Of a supervisory Role, Very Rude
And intent display of The Shrewd.
 
A Thirty-fiver impressing he could deprive
A
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Categories: payback, betrayal, career, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTread Lightly On My Wounded Soul - a Repost

Tread lightly on my badly wounded soul
Lest it return in spectral manner borne,
Time will atone for the happiness you stole.

Ponder the ways you can make it whole
The one you purposely caused to mourn
Tread lightly on my badly wounded soul.

All deeds are written on memory’s scroll
Some like the rose; some like the thorn
Time will atone for
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Categories: payback, bullying, hurt, memory, spoken
Form: Villanelle

Premium MemberLatent Black Payback

Losses not consolidated leave contributor raw
Arrears rip pages of rational compassionate law
Turblent thoughts toss turn to channel retaliation 
Embittered brain rubs static into smooth radio station
Nocturnal curtain eternal drawn over forgiving stance
Tortured cortex tar drips coal smudge repugnance 


Behind lids of eyes fingertips pressing upon
Lacking exposure conjures warped projection 
Attonement can't be granted during darkness
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Categories: payback, absence, betrayal, evil, fear,
Form: Acrostic

Payback

Your Stimulus cheque has gone astray
To Trump Resorts for employee pay
With Trump to lead it
You know they need it
As they just might file "Bankrupt" today!
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Categories: payback, integrity,
Form: Limerick

Payback

The currency of time
—is blood 

(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)
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Categories: payback, time,
Form: Free verse

Payback

Welcome to the house of card
Where guards don't guard
Relax you won't get bored
Just a little bald
You don't need to be mad
After all it began with your dad
When I was a lost lad
So cruel were his hand
That every pain received is like a scorched land
Don't try to be sad
You gonna make my heart hard
He thinks he
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Categories: payback, art,
Form: Rhyme

Payback, Discretion Is Advised

When the night is at its blackest and
the moon sneaks behind the clouds,  
and the owls began to call, you know
there is no place to hide.  

When your brain begins to ponder, certain
things that you have done, and your heart
begins to flutter; while your skin starts growing
bumps, you know that he is near.
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Categories: payback, dark, death, evil, murder,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium MemberPayback - For Into the Wood

Payback - for Into The Wood contest

The gate to the path through the wood
A statue on either side stood
Together alone, cast out of stone
They’d love to get up to no good

Boy watching girl and girl watching boy
Maybe they’re longing for x-rated joy
Hmmm, said a fairy, what would they do
If they were alive just like me
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Categories: payback, longing, lust, magic,
Form: Rhyme

Politician's Payback

Our Senator thought he’s flying high,
then with dented pride he wondered why,
he received his reward,
the walking eagle award,
‘cause he’s so full of poop he can’t fly.
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Categories: payback, political,
Form: Limerick

Pesky Poppycock Payback Please Prepare

Prevarication permits pretend perception, presenting
piquantly piqued, pimply pimping playboy, plucky
pulchritudinous previously pusillanimous, prevalently
puckish, psychic packman, pokemon playing proletarian

puppeteer pygmy, peevishly punky, plummy, plumy,
pompously pushy, pampered, prefabricated pinchbeck,
pokily plying plowshear, plodding peregrination, pied
piper pitifully peppy pornographic potato pealing,

parsimonious paradoxical protagonist, proposing
preposterous panicky pacification plots, prioritization
pertinent penultimate peroration, perhaps perceiving
perjuring, perplexing, perverting puzzling pronouncements

projecting pulsating pixelated pulpy
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Categories: payback, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

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