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Best Rugby Poems

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


I Love Rugby
Rugby, what a beautiful and passionate game
Its not about money, fashion or fame.
Invented one day by a guy named Webb
How do go "I have a...

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Categories: rugby, beautiful, celebration, culture, inspiration,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member 'rugby - Chasing the Oval Ball'
the stands are full, one man kicks the ball
fifteen men pursue, it becomes a maul 
referee blow his whistle
concluding the tussle
a try is scored over...

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Categories: rugby, sports
Form: Limerick
Rugby Grass Roots
The grandstand is gelid by a sharp wintry breeze
Carried off from the field are the last of dead leaves
The shrill of the whistle, muffled calls...

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© Marco Bing  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rugby, friendship, games, sports, spring,
Form: Alexandrine
Rugby
Some lads are running with the ball,
leather, pointed, played by all, though
some would say it’s from the south,
it’s just as popular, up in Louth

Now not...

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Categories: rugby, allegory, friendship, sports,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Blind Date - Now a Collaboration
My bestie blind dated big Humpty
His hairstyle resembled Don Trumpty
He was constantly rude
Foul mouthed and so crude
No wonder she soon ditched the numpty!

10/15/18


Your bestie's blind...

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Categories: rugby, best friend, humorous, relationship,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Leaving Wales
Wales to me is her Celtic tribal history,	
Wales to me is walks upon her shores.
Wales to me is her druids, saints, and mystery,	
the soil I...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rugby, leaving, longing, love,
Form: Lyric
Just Like Football I Am Waiting ,
Just like football I am waiting ,
on the side line,
To go up on the field,
Yes we are playing Goodooga,
Aboriginal big guys, tough as steel.

Here comes...

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Categories: rugby, adventureme,
Form: Ballad
Tis the Irish In Me...
You'll not see determination
like it...

this spirit sailed across
seven seas...

even as a child I fondly
recall it...

I knew I was different...
for what I believe...

for instance rich kids
down...

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Categories: rugby, passion, me, universe,
Form: Lyric
Why Dot Won'T Leave the Farm
Dot Blogs she was a buxom lass and hefty heifer too
who married Bobby Eugene Blows when she was twenty- two.
They lived upon a dairy farm...

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Categories: rugby, humorous, night, old, life,
Form: Rhyme
Seren
what am I
who am I
why am I


what am I
I am  a single lass
with a puncheon for poetry
am a receiver of thoughts
brought forth from another's...

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Categories: rugby,
Form: Verse
Sales - Day After Christmas Contest
Awoke with a feeling of deflation
The razzamatazz is over pressie’s given
Then a thought arouses me with a smile
Whilst the men watch the sport on this...

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Categories: rugby, boxing day ,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nine Seventeen
Huddled in Burton's doorway, head down,
the windblown rain at almost forty five degrees
soaking me from the knees downwards.
Reflecting on the paving, the red, amber and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rugby, time,
Form: Free verse
Embers of Memory
embers of memory- solitude
a rugby inside me trembling
jerking off seeds, heat yolk
furtive cells melt in furnace

a secret pleasure perfumes
a little room an eve garden
my son...

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Categories: rugby, allegory,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Our Last Thoughts
… well I had a hell of a ride

won’t go to heaven but paradise needs fire

goods innings they say

but I am more of a Rugby...

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Categories: rugby, love,
Form: Epitaph
Grey Power Rules, Ok
It was a day of chaos
The day the pensioners struck,
Massed Mobility Scooters moving
Forward like a Rugby Union ruck, 
Blocking all the streets
In the centre of...

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Categories: rugby, age, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme

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