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Rube Poems - Poems about Rube

A fanta see overrides reality
...A fanta see overrides reality! Hello? I like to get positioned for sixty nine. Are you looking for a scheming, schlepping, and schvitzing writer? natural body and laid-back vibe?? I'm al......

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Categories: rube, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cloning a Clown
...If you are going to clone a clown you need a giant test tube. This was stated by my ignoramous of a cousin, we call Rube. He ordered the biggest one that a Prime truck could deliver. I believe I w......

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Categories: rube, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Rubik's Cube
...Rubik’s cube: six faces, nine tiles per Sort out so colors, sides are uniform The rubric? No clue here… Cubic rube ---------- Another tricube, naturally. I was a candidate for the "......

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Categories: rube, silly,
Form: Other
Dan the Hero, Part V
......He left here there, and she had a stunned look, so did the first responders standing by, no one had ever heard Dan talk that much, much less express the feelings deep inside. Needless to say......

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Categories: rube, appreciation, character, conflict, hero,
Form: Epic
Edgar Cayce
...EDGAR CAYCE True, true, my hands are soft– not overworked, nor lined by heavy labor-- nor calloused -- the soft hands of a gentleman, perhaps! But my manners are rough and countryf......

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Categories: rube, angst, death, faith, god,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member The End of the Weekend
...I don't like Sunday night It doesn't like me It's the end of the weekend which doesn't fill me with glee Tomorrow morning begins the workweek's dull grind that some just can't wait for ......

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Categories: rube, celebration, joy, work,
Form: Rhyme
Oracle of Giza
...A new day perhaps, of immeasurable tin, sound of din A hurricane noise, a thrall of riotous cuts, although thin The blood-curdle choke of rage from before Now purchased like plasma from the needle......

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Categories: rube, 11th grade, absence, allusion,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Dancing
...To jitterbug and jive, perhaps to feel alive; Dreaming that I too could dance as well as you; Strutting to a tango in Chichicastenango Touring a veranda edged with jacaranda. Four eyes eagerly da......

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Categories: rube, dance, dream, imagery, music,
Form: Imagism
Middle Class Dismissed
... Marginalized middle finger people moving upwardly mobile on a quality-of-life escalator going always down Mall pallbearers for the palladium pocketeers, (them who bring forth weekly ......

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Categories: rube, anxiety, imagery, jobs, symbolism,
Form: Tristich
Premium Member The Death of God - and Other Matters
...Might sightless worms express surprise If evolution gave them eyes And brains to sport (of larger size) To grok verse modern poet throws, Sing, "Rose is rose is rose is rose!" Snort scentless......

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Categories: rube, faith, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Bloody Road To Calvary
...The Bloody Road to Calvary © Ben Burton 4/11/2019 They scourged this common criminal, the man who would be king He was a Jew and that alone was reason to demean In bawdy reverie they whipped Hi......

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Categories: rube, 8th grade, christian,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Gravity Fed
...Sewers possess a beauty all their own belching gas you can hear them hiss and groan. A maze that stretches for hundreds of miles they remove our stench and leave us with smiles. Such ......

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Categories: rube, 12th grade, analogy, beauty,
Form: Couplet
Wrong Thugs and Harmony
... Ganksta fools coming at you incorrect like thugs Political dull tools: Criminal IQ fakers showing total disrespect — Tick-tock bugs Clock benders of societal rules, indecent l......

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Categories: rube, hip hop, political, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hey Rube
...Hey Rude, it ain't all that bad Take a sad song and make it glad Beatles had it down pat Now Jacko wears the hat Giggling till a respirator they had to add......

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Categories: rube, fantasy,
Form: Limerick
A Fantasy Over Rides Reality
...Hello? I like to get six + 9 ??Are you?????? schlepping writer,?? natural body and laid-back vibe??  I'm all about therapeutic touch via nuts and life of bee dogged trees! teasing with idealism......

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Categories: rube, beauty, creation, desire, fantasy,
Form: Romanticism

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