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Bub Poems - Poems about Bub

Premium MemberTea Time

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Luscious teacakes twirl in white coats,
Meringues do zumba rumba
Naughty nibbles dance bub-to-bub
Orange pekoe snugs the cosy
Petite posies ring-a-rosie...
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Categories: bub, food,
Form: Abecedarian

Premium MemberShadow of the Valley

...I jumped on the train, feeling bad.
It cost me all the money I had.
Is that seat empty, tell me bub?
I asked, clutching my ticket stub.
I knew not where it was going. 
The man across from me loo...
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Categories: bub, death, travel,
Form: Rhyme



No Blimp Equals Pickle In Pub

...Golly, what a Pickle you’re In -- Bub,
How is it That you’re stuck in a Pub?
Gullible -- You look, Pimp
for why not hop, on Blimps?
and Fly in its Massive Ruba-dub.
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Categories: bub, art, poetry,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberDeal with the Devil

...I was minding my own business, like I usually do.
It was like any other day, and a hot wind blew.
About then, a whirlwind appeared, and I was surprised.
That's when the devil in the flesh material...
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Categories: bub, angel, evil, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberI Stay all Day

...looking at the world within
he hangs his head down by his chin
many walk by; he makes them think
he is on the brink, he is on the brink

some sit beside him and give him a rub
they feel a kinds...
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Categories: bub, feelings,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberHub Bub Homonyms

...Hoping my complement of words compliment your time:
[The man] from 
                       Cape Town came down 
                       was a Dutch Boer much more
                       likely be ...
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Categories: bub, analogy,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberSubterranean Homesick Blues - Archimedean Homesick Blues

...This poem, which is loaded with math terms, is to be sung to the tune of Subterranean Homesick Blues.  What was I thinking?  

Johnny’s in the basement
Working on geometry
You’ll see my intent
A...
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Categories: bub, math, music,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFutility

...I.

The weather is cold.  Do you need a sweater?
I feel warm and fine – never better.
Anything I can do for you?
Can’t think of one thing or two.
Want a hot cup of tea?
No thanks, not for me.
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Categories: bub, care, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRefurbished Nursery Rhymes: Rub-A-Dub-Dub

...What nursery rhyme's gayer, I'm asking you, bub,
Than the one that has three grown men sharing a tub?
Was it their sexual orientation,
Or merely water conservation,
And they were all charter memb...
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Categories: bub, humor, nursery rhyme,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberRefurbished Nursery Rhymes: Simple Simon

...When Simple Simon met the pieman going to the fair,
He thought the guy an easy mark he could con out of his wares.
But the pieman glared at him and hissed,
"Bub, I ain't no danged pie-lanthropist!...
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Categories: bub, humor, nursery rhyme,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberFallen Autumn Winter Trees Dormant

...But in the fact that it was barking
trees 
The wind moving the tree branches in the night
trees
I felt compelled to sniff the summer lawn
Compelled so to remembering my late nightly...
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Categories: bub, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberMinus Queen Times Covid Nineteen

...U K minus queen, where  All's not as it seems; the crowds Will Gather, there will be much piety and blather,  shoulders 
To  be rubbed, as people dive into the hub-bub at the 
Shop restaurant golf ...
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Categories: bub, absence, analogy, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme

Don'T Go Beyond the Ocean, Part I

...Sabati was eight years old on the day
that his grandfather told him to sit down,
there was a story that he had to share,
that he was finally old enough now.

Sabati looked up to Grandpa Kaahbli,...
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Categories: bub, america, conflict, dark, future,
Form: Epic

Premium MemberHave Mac - Will Travel

...Have Mac - Will Travel!

I have iPhones slung low on each hip for fast draws.
Nope, you won’t see white gloves on this tenderfoot’s paws.
I post mostly rhymed poems, they’...
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Categories: bub, humor, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhen We Met and Fell In Love

...When We Met and Fell in Love
(half a century ago)
By Franklin Price
03/02/2022

When we met so long ago, another time, another place.
I felt a pull, a need for you, when I looked upon your face...
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Categories: bub, death, friendship love, marriage,
Form: Couplet

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