A poem about an unlikely underdog's victory might use come up trumps to honor the reversal of expectation — the overlooked, the discounted, the written-off — whose final card transforms the game; In the tradition of Irish poetry, come up trumps carries a vernacular confidence that suits poems celebrating wit, luck, and the capacity of the marginalized to find advantage where none seemed available; A poem about the last-minute discovery of a solution — the idea that arrives just before the deadline, the memory that surfaces just before the court date — might use come up trumps to name the strange grace of timely rescue; The gambling origin suits poems about risk and reward, where the speaker who comes up trumps has committed everything on an uncertain hand and been vindicated by fortune rather than calculation; In a love poem, the partner who comes up trumps in a moment of crisis — who finds the right words, makes the right gesture, arrives when arrival seemed impossible — is honored as the card the speaker most needed; A political poem about a grassroots campaign that defeats a well-funded opponent might use come up trumps to celebrate the moment when organization, passion, and timing proved more powerful than money and incumbency