Short Comeuppance Poems
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Comeuppance is a useful word
when confronted by a beggar nerd
Give him no more than tuppence
a fitting and proper comeuppance
Categories:
comeuppance, language, money, word play,
Form:
Couplet
There was an old stripper called Jacky,
who's act was deemed rather tacky.
But she got her comeuppance
when, out of her tuppence,
fell six pipes, fifty fags and some baccy.
Categories:
comeuppance, humorous, rude,
Form:
Limerick
There was a crook named Jum Tuppence
Who stole from people of meager substance.
He tried it on an undercover cop
And was caught right on the spot.
Now Jum is due to get his comeuppance.
Categories:
comeuppance, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Limerick : Once a Miser lost hoard of halfpence
Once a Miser lost hoard of halfpence
Looked high and low and over the fence
When at last he found it
It wasn’t worth his spit
Ha’penny tipper got his comeuppance
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
Categories:
comeuppance, irony,
Form:
Limerick
The old word was comeuppance
When the obnoxious got their due
For animal-like behavior
Better suited for the zoo.
Now we simply chuckle with glee
And say they had it coming
Letting it go like that
And walk away humming.
Written June 3, 2022
Categories:
comeuppance, humor,
Form:
Light Verse
Of course I would never consider your harm a
Deliciously fitting comeuppance of karma;
I only confess that I might have enjoyed a
Judicious, wee smidgen of slight schadenfreude.
(Written 21 Dec 2018 for Caren Krutsinger's "Bunny Jump" rhyme contest.)
Categories:
comeuppance, funny, humor, humorous, psychological,
Form:
Rhyme
Standing fifty cubits high-
the gallows meant for Mordecai,
but Haman's scheming went awry;
and on the gibbet carved from pride
not Mordecai, but Haman died.
08.10.19
( reference - Old Testament - book of Esther )
FF1 series 22 - vignette : Brian Strand's blog
Categories:
comeuppance, irony,
Form:
Verse
Feed me, I plead to you my son
One morsel of food is all I desire
A mouthful of delightful flavour
Delivering a moment of pleasure
Before my comeuppance is here
And I no more will taste flavour
Contest sponsor:- Brain Strand
AN OCTOBER STANDARD CONTEST 2017
Categories:
comeuppance, death,
Form:
Free verse
The long awaited time finally came
You had run out of people to wrongly blame
The vicious bile seeping across your tongue
No longer had power, no longer stung
Those who had been hurt by your heinous actions
Could continue living without hateful distractions
Because after all, when one lives a life of hate
Receiving comeuppance is a simple twist of fate
Categories:
comeuppance, angst, life, people
Form:
Rhyme
Cat laid on her back and made fun of me
Because my husband dressed me up like a tree
She got her comeuppance an hour ago
When he dressed her as a tree too, from head to toe.
She hissed when I laughed, but I did not care.
She is not that frightening, and I do not scare.
I stuck out my tongue and she gave me a snarl.
We are now off to visit husband’s Uncle Carl.
Categories:
comeuppance, christmas, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
Time will be up in no time
and anger will have its comeuppance.
I don’t give a pence
whether or not they caught the guy,
because they had him
at one time,
and they lost this time
with other people’s kin.
GBI we need them -
do we?
Dig it?
Find another bone to pick?
Chasing tails.
Giving guns
to a teen
who leans into the hall
and causes havoc and heroes
to emerge.
Categories:
comeuppance, anger, murder,
Form:
Other
The morning I woke in your arms, I asked you
to close the curtains round the bed of our bliss -
and you did.
The next day I tore off the covers
trying to give you your comeuppance
to push past perceived reluctance
what a petulant, brash, fussy fit.
Now shivering and stripped and cold,
I wonder will we ever nestle again
under the blanket of love,
like that Sunday of old.
Categories:
comeuppance,
Form:
Free verse
Have you been nasty an bits-ful,
caused pain with a liars deceit,
comeuppance oh so dreadful,
will grab you by your seat,
interesting concept auto planned,
sucker punch oh so deep,
gotta give fair play, it's command,
karma gets ya subtle, an sweet,
ironic, justice, slaps ya down,
yer bloody well flogged, an now beat.
Don
never mind vengeance ...the lord will apply it....
Categories:
comeuppance, adventure,
Form:
Ballad
Toby liked to bully Abigail
He would often try to make her wail
Whenever she passed
Although she ran fast
He would always grab her pony tail
One day Toby planned what he would do
Then snuck up behind her with some glue
He smeared it in her hair
But Abbie wasn’t there
The teacher’s got a pony tail too
29 November 2022
Contest : Children’s Limericks
Sponsor: Eve Roper
Categories:
comeuppance, bullying, school,
Form:
Limerick
PAYBACK
blood oranges oscillate
within plundered peels
squeezed out surreptitiously
bleeding on her heels
clicking brutish jaws
on paper thin walls
the pied piper grins
with greenback gall
HOWEVER...heaven insists,
maligned orange restitution
purification of every last drop.
shark lust sees only the dark
heel-harpoons of every female
stab his comeuppance heart.
11/27/2017
Categories:
comeuppance, allegory, lust,
Form:
Political Verse
Outward appearances can be deceiving
But guesses are you are very revealing
Simple gestures seem to be wasted on you
Even compassion and care are taken askew
So you vilify and harass like no other
Supremely convinced and poised to smother
Irrational and illogical you flounce about
Only to cause misery with each breath out
Never forget and do not ever be deceived
Some day some how comeuppance will be achieved
Categories:
comeuppance, life, people
Form:
Acrostic
There are Haters in society
who only seek to bring grief
to others,
causing them pain and
uncomfortabilities,
encouraging good people to sink
beneath their capabilities,
robbers of self-esteem and confidence,
They'll tear another down,
until they hurt themselves,
The objective is to eliminate the
competition,
but their "comeuppance" happens
when God anticipates their lead,
doing a 360 on their evil deeds.
Categories:
comeuppance, death
Form:
Prose Poetry
You're Pandemic, You're Pandemic.
Your Infection grows an expiration.
You have come from Wuhan.
And have destroyed All Jahan.
O Man! Your seven deadly Sins.
Ah! Allah has given you a comeuppance.
Because of your Avarice.
You became a bad choice.
Oh man! your lust
Giving you a dust!
O Man! You showed your ignorance.
And Almighty Allah showed His violence!
This Corona has only one solution.
That's do pray with a passion.
Categories:
comeuppance, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Rhyme
COPLA QUINCE: This Bad Guy World
Don’t Bad Guys think of after life
Knowing Good Guys will do no harm:
See if they die
Good Guys pluck from their backs the knife
Say karma used the Bad Guy’s arm:
So there’s no lie
What if Good Guys defend themselves
Defend the lives of near-dear ones:
For after life
And found nothing remained of selves
None will reap true comeuppance:
Karma or non-life
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014
Categories:
comeuppance, life,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Weird things make me happy
The man who talks more with his hand than mouth
The child walking a broken wall
as if upon a tightrope
The puddle spray that reddens the suited business man
The rebel because
The universe flaws
the he that follows the haws
The intertwined fingers of blackened trees
lost within the blanketed darkness
Softened showers simper under summer sprays
Mountain meld with midnight's melancholy moans
Up and coming comeuppance
Karma shows it face
Categories:
comeuppance, poetry,
Form:
Free verse