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Best Tab Poems

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


Premium Member When the Tab Comes Due
Frail humans we are and mistakes are made,
but there will be a time to pay
for pain inflicted on others.

Run swiftly from dark clouds hovering above,
baggage...

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Categories: tab, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Words On the Go
Words can be whimsical, a merry-go-round
They run in a circle, they bounce up and down
They play hide-and-seek, until they are found
Look how quickly the little...

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Categories: tab, fun, silly, words, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whisky Moment
~the Fear of Never~ A DRINK TO REMEMBER!


   And the fire catches every time, my heart needs a sip
I bear no shame pouring,...

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Categories: tab, abuse, addiction, celebration, muse,
Form: Free verse
Genie In a Gin Bottle
Her lips caress another cigarette
A fading belle looking for love
The smoke veils a creature of habit
Chasing a young girls dream

But this Genie found the palace...

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Categories: tab, love, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Had a Martini: Ok, Maybe Four
It'd been one of the most bizarre days; downright crazy
so I had a martini, maybe four, so things got kinda hazy
I fumbled in my wallet...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tab, humor,
Form: Rhyme



The Unfledged Albatross
feathers and bones at rest
                    ...

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Categories: tab, appreciation, art, bird, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Anger- POTD
‘Anger is one letter short of danger.’
Excess of it, our life can endanger.
Anger when grown into aggression and violence,
Works in vicious ways and is a...

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Categories: tab, anger, relationship, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Drunken Clown Poet
This is really kind of a sad story
But please sit yourself down
For the words I'm going to bestow upon you
Will make you feel your watching...

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Categories: tab, funny, humorous, me, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lest We Forget
I remember those days when just a kid,
the old ten shilling note, and the odd quid.*
Teddy boys in their drain pipes, fur collars
smelling of nicotine,...

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Categories: tab, nostalgia, school, old, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Goodbye, Good Riddance! (Co-Written With James Fraser)
With no toilet seats carelessly left propped up
Oh, now I can be such a comfortable pup
Please take your Playboys straight out that open door
Then shut...

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Categories: tab, funnyme,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A House Full of Cats
A house full of cats
Poor ventilation
Doctor says I have hair balls

How mysterious
Our Tab has far -away eyes
UGHH!    It's flatulence

One cat likes to...

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Categories: tab, animals, funny
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Highways and the Byways
The Highways and the Byways
By Franklin Price
10/27/2107
(Inspired by Nancy McIntyre Stepp)

 The highways and the byways
Of this life in which we've grown
Bring back many memories
Of...

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Categories: tab, adventure, happiness, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Wet But Wiser
palindromes

A dog! A panic in a pagoda!
Teenager Rex brought a can of soda;
he shook it up hard and then pulled the tab.
But Rex was too...

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Categories: tab, adventure, funny, pets,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Preparing For Blastoff
*For Matt's How to Build a Spaceship Contest



How do we create an airship that soars?
The answer was Roswell’s, but it could be yours

Make the long...

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Categories: tab, funny, satire, space
Form: Couplet
Blue By You
BLUE BY YOU

What’s Blue by me?  

Butterfly wings, 
the Blue Moth in flight,
stilettos, suede shoes, 
for dancing at night.
Moonbows and rainbows, 
in the spectrum...

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© Edlynn Nau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tab, blue, color, fun, humor,
Form: List

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