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
Bedazzled
Her trap was laid
Rubies and jade
Faint scent of perfume
~ Bejeweled switchblade...
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Categories:
desire, evil, woman,
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
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
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
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
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
Her Hand She'd Offered
Her hand she'd offered
Her heart he'd spurned
Tears torched her pillow
as Equilibrium burned...
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Categories:
emotions, marriage, wedding,
Form:
Rubai
Straight Talk
Teachers' unions today
finally got their way
Transvestite's now an option
~ It's required to be gay
...
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Categories:
education, gender, teacher, usa,
Form:
Rubai
Her Voice a Balm
Cool and collected, calm
she hides a font of passion
Her measured voice a balm ~
remarkable, lyrical aplomb
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Categories:
peace, voice,
Form:
Rubai
The Mosquito is an Anomaly
The mosquito is an anomaly
Its brief life spent in ferocity
Buzzes, stings, draws our blood
~ Revels in tortuosity...
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Categories:
insect, pain, sound, violence,
Form:
Rubai
The Good Times
Frittering their lives away
at work, at home, at play
When the good times finally died
~ they'd nothing left to say...
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Categories:
fun, life, sad,
Form:
Rubai
Extra Eyes on Top of My Head
Following the conclusion
of my foresight illusion.
Wait! Where was I headed?
My cogwheel brain’s in seclusion.
9/5/2021
...
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Categories:
age, angst,
Form:
Rubai
GLIMPSES 10
#10: GLIMPSES
Query quaint quest
Bright blossoms best
~~~~~~~~~
Leon Enriquez
01 October 2017
Singapore...
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Categories:
allusion,
Form:
Rubai
Singing the mortal coil
Dancing the words to lance the boil
With grace and style but no toil
Watering the soul’s thirsty soil
Poetry sings the mortal coil...
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Categories:
poetry, song, words,
Form:
Rubai
It must be win for all
Were it a fair world for all to win
People would wear a natural grin
Over would be this doleful din
Over the dreams dumped in the bin...
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Categories:
world,
Form:
Rubai
Kindness, indeed, is what we need
The milk of life is love and care
Without which we die in despair
Live and let live or else you rot
Like those who were but never were!...
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Categories:
humanity, life, world,
Form:
Rubai
To many little, to few a lot Belongs in a world that has gone to pot
With powers vying to have us ruled
The lull of liberty has us fooled
The rich and mighty sweep it all
And callused hands are rarely jewelled...
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Categories:
anger, money, poverty, power, world,
Form:
Rubai
The Color of Love
The color of love at first sight
needs be night to preserve it aright
Day's searing view obscures its hue
augments a blemish ever so slight...
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Categories:
color, day, love, night,
Form:
Rubai
Earth's River
A walk on a warm winter's day
Birds chirping and children at play
Folks smiling 'neath squinting sunshine
Earth's river flows peaceful today...
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Categories:
earth, peace, river,
Form:
Rubai
Anticipation
I stand and wait by the garden gate
My object of affection is fashionably late
When she appears she will be mine
For a wedding is planned to celebrate....
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Categories:
girlfriend, love, wedding, urdu,
Form:
Rubai