Best Rub Out Poems


Dream 1: 4 Weeks In Positano
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"Dream 1: 4 Weeks in Positano"



Kisses long linger warm lips tasted intense
so sweet like cured Valencia Oranges
lips liquored triple sec not dr......

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Categories: rub out, dream, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
A Wish For a New Day
...What happened to my boisterous boy,
      beloved keeper 
                       of wild bluebell skies?                             

You grew to be an audacious man,
An honest extension of......

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Categories: rub out, bird, day, emotions, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
The Badly Drawn Goat
...The pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.

The picture in question, it burst with su......

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Categories: rub out, animal, creation, funny,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry


When Love Is In Place
...A house is a home when love is in place 
And children are singing songs of delight.
Laughter comes squealing with grins on each face.

Parents and children with wide eyes embrace.
New hopes and ......

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Categories: rub out, child, family, love,
Form: Villanelle
Indelible
...The cock of day crow over johncrow mountain
Sun come bright
Like Jane and Louise shine eye girl
And light
Just drop from heaven like ripe breadfruit
I pull the darkness from my eyes
And look an......

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Categories: rub out, hopelonging, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Holier Than Thou
...Holier than thou 

Not giv’n to pray, they were grey monks
‘Mid the holy band, ole’ Father John
Who was a gansta and wanksta,
Held command with some merry wives
That were healed of un-u......

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Categories: rub out, dark,
Form: Free verse


Premium Member That Was Random
...There are actual people
half woman half man
running mornings and
dream people in movies
half language half light.
Tomorrow is John’s funeral.

		*			*			*

This is my minute
my moment
Oops......

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Categories: rub out, angel, death, dream, river,
Form: Free verse
Woman of Art.
...The steam slowly raises from inside my mug, wrapping itself around my pencil, eventually 
evaporating into the musty atmosphere.
As I open my sketchbook I imagine all the possibilities of a world i......

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Categories: rub out, peacedance, water, blue, dance,
Form: Romanticism
Depressional Sadness, Released By Satin's Army
...Chances in life, per say can be at an all time low...
The life ebbing onto our feet, fro' riptide's movements against and slow.

Haught the naught'd depression'd sweep...
Ne'er to be over our hea......

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Categories: rub out, inspirational, life, life, life,
Form:
Far and Gone
...A pencil to write my own little story
An eraser to rub out the bad patches
Sketch the **** bits with love and care
Far and gone with my own lone soul
Live for myself each every moment
No complaints o......

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Categories: rub out, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Silence of the Lamp
...SILENCE OF THE LAMP

                              That day the sunrise was not so beautiful
                               The flowers were pale without fragrance
                                  T......

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Categories: rub out, suicide,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Among the Chaos Searching For Peace
...In the midst of life's troubles
one feels lost among the fog
so many routes filter through
making conclusions like a daily log

One wants always to understand
thinking it's our right to know
b......

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Categories: rub out, peace, words, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Dream Life
...I

In that small moment dream takes
to fly from memory and become
the nagging image of forgetfulness
the muted clank of psyche's hold
I can turn too well in bed
and learn the pains of comfort.......

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Categories: rub out, depression, hope, imaginationdream, dream,
Form: Lyric
A Beautiful Breeze
...Comfortable spaces
Familiar places
So much effort 
Same old faces

So uninspired 

This way of living 
Kind of restrictive 
Barely giving
Repetitive going ons
To waste the day
Uncreative ......

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Categories: rub out, imagination, women,
Form: List
Premium Member A Slam of a Sham
...A politician's life is such a sham,
His every campaign speech is a scam.
He runs for office unleashing radical rants and raves,
Then votes the party line, so as not to make any waves.

And then ......

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Categories: rub out, corruption, integrity, judgement, political,
Form: Rhyme
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