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Paycheck Poems - Poems about Paycheck


Paycheck

Pulling out my card.
Doesn’t seem too hard.
When I’m convinced of my wealth.
Despite new books on my shelf.
Despite sunglasses that are new.
I assumed by account was tried and true.
But when the balance is none.
I find myself feeling undone.
I want to go back.
To stop myself from getting snacks.
I want to undo.
Buying a shirt that is blue.
I hear
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Categories: paycheck, food, funny love,
Form: Rhyme

Work

Work, as fun as death
More, more, more, they want always
Sweet relief, paycheck.
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Categories: paycheck, angst, conflict, graduation, growth,
Form: Haiku



First Paycheck

freeze lamb cocoon
carrot boot
skeleton mist daze
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Categories: paycheck, environment, nature,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberPaycheck

stationed at kissing desks 
I feel the implode of anxiety
within this sweathouse of labor and woe

telephones chime
with the sweet rhythm of security
being enslaved can be a joy all its own

ungrateful maybe
but a yet to be defined pay scale
can mean so much in a bunker 
filled with high school grads

through the fog and thunder 
of these
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Categories: paycheck, art,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStep Right Up To the Plate and Earn Your Paycheck

Do you make sure to tap all the dirt from your spikes with your bat,
 even if it takes two full-length TV time-outs for you to do so?

Do you cross yourself once, twice, thrice,
 or perhaps fidget and fiddle with the letters on your uniform,
  no matter that they're sewn on so tightly that
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Categories: paycheck, baseball, humorous, money,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberPaycheck

Paycheck
Paycheck
Come to me
Let me and
My savings 
Rise
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Categories: paycheck, america,
Form: Free verse

Earned Another Paycheck

TWO WEEKS GONE BY,

AND WE EARNED ANOTHER PAYCHECK.

NOT MUCH TO SAY,

WITH TONS OF BILLS TO PAY.

WHAT DO WE SAY WITH SO MUCH TO PAY?

YET WITH EVERY LITTLE DAY,

WE FIND OURSELVES WITH TIRED EYES,

AND A WEARY SOUL.


LET US RENEW OUR LIVES,

AND BRING NEW PURPOSE TO EACH DAY!

GIVE US THE JOY, HEALTH, AND WEALTH

OF AN ABUNDANT LIFE,

WITHOUT
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Categories: paycheck, life, money, thanksgiving, truth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Am One Paycheck Away

you see my car
think am a star
we set a  bar
and had this to say
well i live day by day
being homeless
AM ONE PAYCHECK AWAY
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Categories: paycheck, anger,
Form: Light Verse

Paycheck Away

life has its ups and down
you feel its on the ground
hard times around
this i can say
what day by day will play
beind like this homeless
AM JUST A 
PAYCHECK AWAY
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Categories: paycheck, adventure, freedom, inspirational, day,
Form: Light Verse

Paycheck Prison

Smells like power
But tastes like chicken
Administrative duties
Make my pulse quicken

Repression wears a tie
Arrogance sports hose
Make Bossy smile
That’s how the garden grows

Timeclock sphincter
Clamped down tight
Constipation of thought
Absence of light

Artistic fire snuffed
Sculptor’s hand inert
Bottom line worship
Trade the smock for the shirt

Corporate aorta
Chocked with fat pride
With toad-lust for power
Freedom must collide
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Categories: paycheck, on work and working,
Form: Rhyme

And There's No Paycheck On Friday

AND THERE’S NO PAY CHECK ON FRIDAY

I revel in close calls
And what I do takes balls
I’m  comfortable hanging by a thread
While I eliminate the thought of my being dead

I swim through rough waters against the tide
And just keep repeating “Satan is on my side”
One must be aware of what turning a corner may bring
Because
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Categories: paycheck, angst, day, life,
Form: Quatrain

And There's No Paycheck On Friday

AND THERE’S NO PAY CHECK ON FRIDAY

I revel in close calls
And what I do takes balls
I’m  comfortable hanging by a thread
While I eliminate the thought of my being dead

I swim through rough waters against the tide
And just keep repeating “Satan is on my side”
One must be aware of what turning a corner may bring
Because
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Categories: paycheck, angst, day, life,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberPaycheck To Paycheck

"If you're living from paycheck to paycheck, you're living beyond your means."
When I tell others this they tend to get angry at very high extremes,
but then what do I know? 
I'm just a hard working blue collar Joe
whose bank account is never low.
I've had all of the same responsibilities,
such as paying my debts and raising
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Categories: paycheck, people,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Paycheck

I am the senior cashier in a store.

Most of the time my job is just a bore.

My co-workers are great

So the job I can't hate.

The paycheck is all I'm really here for.
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Categories: paycheck, work
Form: Limerick

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