Short Rubai Poems
Short Rubai Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short Rubai poems by PoetrySoup poets. Search the short Rubai poetry form by poem length and keyword.
Sand Land
Sleepy-head
Your Muse is dead
Time has come
to get in bed...
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Categories:
muse, sleep,
Form:
Rubai
Ray of Light
Ray of light
or starless night
Every poem ~
wings of flight...
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Categories:
light, night, poems,
Form:
Rubai
You See
'I see,' you say
Your lucky day
I'm blind, you see
For sight, I pray...
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Categories:
appreciation, senses,
Form:
Rubai
Life's Cycle
a flower tries
to reach the sky
up and up it thrusts ~
sentenced to die...
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Categories:
death, destiny, flower, life,
Form:
Rubai
Precocious Child
Precocious child
curious, wild
Whence come adults
milquetoast mild...
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Categories:
childhood, grandparents,
Form:
Rubai
Symphony's Synchrony
One violin weeps
another cries
Strings saw the air
the music flies...
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Categories:
emotions, flying, music,
Form:
Rubai
In Praise of Home Cooking
Restaurant cuisine
wears torn jeans
Its label reads
'Made by machine'...
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Categories:
fashion, food, home, how i feel, metaphor,
Form:
Rubai
Bedazzled
Her trap was laid
Rubies and jade
Faint scent of perfume
~ Bejeweled switchblade...
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Categories:
desire, evil, woman,
Form:
Rubai
Stayin' Alive
She sure was scary
He was quite married
Could each be both
~ And stay unburied...
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Categories:
horror, marriage, scary,
Form:
Rubai
Hugs Beat Bugs
Better a human to hug
than one to bug
Those who do not agree
have not a heart to tug...
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Categories:
emotions, heart,
Form:
Rubai
Makings of a Legend
His legend awoke
in misty smoke
From fancy, not fact
are memories stoked
...
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Categories:
hero, memory,
Form:
Rubai
Mourning Bells
mourning bells rung
forlorn dirges sung
air heavy with grief
~ in eternity shines a son...
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Categories:
birth, death, grief,
Form:
Rubai
Ln the Year 2025
ln the year 2025
the aliens arrived
saw our facemasks
shrieked and fled ~ horrified...
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Categories:
horror, howl, space,
Form:
Rubai
A Thread
I want to be me
I don't suddenly
Fear hangs by a thread
~ to flee or be free...
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Categories:
conflict, confusion, fear, freedom,
Form:
Rubai
Culinary Cravings
Culinary cravings
Extraordinary rare
Sleepy Mom found in her baby
~ Spaghetti in her hair...
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Categories:
baby, food, giggle, mom,
Form:
Rubai
The Almighty Dollar
Whoop and Holler
for the Almighty Dollar
Arraigned yesterday
in a pure white collar...
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Categories:
judgement, money,
Form:
Rubai
My Husband's My Friend
My husband's my friend
whom I'd love without end
If some time with me
he would spend...
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Categories:
husband, love, time,
Form:
Rubai
Trust
She sent her prayer
into the air
Wherever it lands
He will be there
...
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Categories:
prayer, travel,
Form:
Rubai
Abiding Truth
Practice rhymes with cactus
piano, with woe
Those who've suffered
surely know...
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Categories:
music, pain,
Form:
Rubai
In Peacetime
In peacetime we're divided
at war we're united
Something wrong here
time to right it...
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Categories:
peace, together,
Form:
Rubai
All's Fair
Box marked ‘Fragile, with care’
Returned to sender
C’est la guerre…
Addressee hostile ~ Beware!...
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Categories:
adventure, scary,
Form:
Rubai
The Scarecrow - Reprise
He's straw for a brain
unkempt terrain
depends on witch thoughts
cross his membrane...
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Categories:
fantasy, humor, word play,
Form:
Rubai
Highly Inadvisable
Go to sleep mad
Wake up glad?
Your mind’s not right
You’ve been had
...
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Categories:
anger, happy, sleep,
Form:
Rubai
On Champs-Elysees Avenue
No more can you say
that Paris is gay
Only the left
has right-of-way
...
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Categories:
change, happy, paris,
Form:
Rubai
Make-Believe
A child makes-believe
a fairy grants her wish
Who would deceive
~ will never receive...
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Categories:
child, desire, fairy, girl,
Form:
Rubai