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Best Rubs Poems

Below are the all-time best Rubs poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of rubs poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s...

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Categories: rubs, god, life,
Form: Sestina



Light On the Devil's Chord - Dear Lucifer
I cannot compete with something as painstakingly glorious as you
Envy is but a humbling tumble down a steep, rocky hill
I am crushed in your fits...

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Categories: rubs, absence, analogy, character, corruption,
Form: Epic
Bluewing Falling
Her magic is drawn 
from an ocean's 
million hues 
reflecting 
boundless skies

slain by her trembling perfection 
you grab hold of her 
to save yourself 
...

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Categories: rubs, beauty, butterfly, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days pass into the weakest of loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath the colored brush of Van Gogh. He links.
Comets trail snowfields of...

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Categories: rubs, lovegod, light, god, life,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Breathe In the Silence-W
I hear sounds of the wind hissing and rustling.
I listen on the beach to the waves cascading,
Slapping, tossing swashing the sand pebbles,
Something close to eternity...

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Categories: rubs, me,
Form: Kyrielle



Premium Member A Hound Dog Tale
As the 
story
goes...

A
pesky
fly, 
came buzzing by
to rest and munch
and eat his lunch
and have some fun
on the hound dog's 
nose.

The old dog
snoozed 
without a clue
in the...

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Categories: rubs, old,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sultry Warm Summer Day
One hundred and six degrees was the rumor.
I checked at noon, it was only ninety-six.
Rumor fake news.

I sit on my front porch 
lapping up the...

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Categories: rubs, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s...

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Categories: rubs, anxiety, art, depression, suicide,
Form: Sestina
He's Just a Dog
He’s just a dog, a mongrel pup that fitted in me hand,
short haired, tan and white, with needs of high demand,
he’s whingy and he’s whiny,...

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Categories: rubs, animal, dog, trust, mum,
Form: Rhyme
Dreamland
When my child hastens to her pillow,
To close her eyes and dream;
She drifts away with stars to play,
Where magic paints the scene.

Mermaids with their tresses...

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Categories: rubs, childhood, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It Must Be Hard
It must be hard
To carry it around
That load of hate
Weighing on your heart
A powder keg
Waiting to explode

You pretend it isn’t there
But now and again it...

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Categories: rubs, hate, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Good Girl
The Good Girl

Penny has always been a good girl, now she is a good wife. She lives in a good neighborhood, drives a nice car,...

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Categories: rubs, passion, sensual, sexy,
Form: Prose
Grandma Happy
Footsteps on stairs,
little feet pounding, running,
child faces peeking round the kitchen door,
expectancy alive, dancing in their eyes.
They know that love is always here
waiting just for...

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Categories: rubs, grandchild, grandmother, happiness, happy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Must Be Hard
It must be hard
To carry it around
That load of hate
Weighing on your heart
A powder keg
Waiting to explode
Hurting others but
Killing your own soul

You pretend it isn’t...

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Categories: rubs, hate, integrity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Eternity Within Me Touches
I hear sounds of the wind hissing and rustling.
I listen on the beach to the waves cascading,
Slapping, tossing swashing the sand pebbles,
Something close to eternity...

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Categories: rubs, emotions, nature,
Form: Kyrielle

Book: Shattered Sighs