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Short Rum Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Rum by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Rum by length and keyword.


Premium Member Rum and Footles Don'T Mix

Some bum
       drank rum

     Fi - fie
       fo - fum

     Blood smelled
       he yelled

     Turned glum
       'twas Mum
Form: Footle


Premium Member Rum Deal

There was an old man of the sea
Who was invited ashore for tea
He took just one sip
Hurried back to his ship
Muttering a tot of rum will do me
Form: Limerick

Trinidad Rum Cake

Sample rum quality,  mmmm
 Mix  eggs,  sugar, but-
ter, fruit ,  nuts self raising  flour 
sample rum again  
pour rum over cake
Watch  yerrrrr  sshhhtep               
Whoa.
Form: Epulaeryu

Rum Party

Man crowed,
his exploits,
in words,
that were bloated,
others were confused,
and simply floated,
he was infectious,
and passed it on,
to the next,
and rumbustious,
rum party,
went on.

Rum and Coconuts

By sun-kissed sands on moonlit seas,
The ships are sailing in the breeze,
Around me rum and coconuts,
Calypso music, wooden huts,
My hammock tied between two trees.

Jack Horne for Gail’s contest
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Whiskey and Rum

Whiskey and Rum
after the nursery rhyme Coffee and Tea

My twin sister and I were drunk,
All our money on booze was sunk.
She loved whiskey and I loved rum,
We robbed the store and had more fun!
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member My Loss

Oh, how I love that Jamaican rum! In my coffee, it is pure yum. In cake it’s even better; My roommate loves it too. He swilled mine away, Now it’s all gone; No rum cake, To dine On.
Form: Nonet

Red Rum Roses

They thought that I was a damsel in distress
Tied unto their railroad tracks, until I took a bite..
This main course a franchise her vanilla cream skies ?
Tipping a martini two cherries virgin hues; the grateful dead.
art

Premium Member YO-HO-HO AND A BOTTLE OF RUM

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum~  
Paul the squirrel beat his acorn drum.
   He swung through the pines with a raucous cheer,
   rum sloshing wild as he commandeered the pier~
the boldest little buccaneer ever to come.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Rum Pound Cake

Her first mistake
while baking cakes
was flavoring one with rum

Her headache pounds
and she found 
some crumbs
around her chin

The cake is done
but she wonders now
why all the rum is gone
 



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3/9/16
Form: Than-Bauk

Stale Rum

Under the wind 
of an electric fan
the old balladeer sounds 
like a tired man,
blinks his bleary eyes 
as fast as he can;


breath reeks of nicotine 
and of stale rum,
crooning his song 
with a gravelly hum,
the captive audience gossips 
and chews gum!
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member I Posted a New Short Story - the Rum

I latest piece is too long the poem section - so it's in "Short Stories." 

It's called "the rum." It's about growing up (I suppose).

I could shorten it - but why? *shrug*
 
Here's the link: 
https://www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/the_rum_10670

I hope you like it!

Premium Member Rum Tum Tiddle

Rum tum tiddle
You can fiddle
In the middle
Of the place where you piddle
In a skittle on the griddle 

Rum tum tiddle
It's a brittle little riddle
As you tell your tarradiddle
And we beat a paradiddle
Every kid'll want to whittle
And watch you as you diddle
Mrs. Twiddle.
Form: Lyric

Red Rum

It talks.
It whispers.
It cries out loud.
It tells secret tales.
It speaks of dark acts.
It reveals silent tears.
It uncovers the arms.
It displays events.
It exhibits truth.
It uncovers.
It rests. 

It seeps in the earth
By the hands of its culprits
From broken bottles.

Premium Member Rum

The Cuba Libre, also called rum and coke
is favored by many kinds of folk.
To its pleasures I succumb
and ne’er refrain from!
Sip, savor
rum.
What flavor!
I sing and I hum!
The taste is just so awesome!
I really love this drink, it’s no joke.
Its praises I sing to all you gentlefolk!
© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Sweet Bottles of Rum

aboard the ship named Jolly Roger
she
wears the black Skull and Bones Flag
and
it 
waves in the salty air
where 
the 
pirates celebrate
in all the captured booty
and
flashed
their 
whiskey smiles and yellow bloodshot eyes
while
the 
pirates shouted out
the 
sun taste like sweet bottles of rum

Rum and Grits

i walked for miles with
a voice that smiles 
humming off rays of my pass
in styles
 
starring down the road
which i've come from miles
drunk off the rum 

my sound is loud as bass
from a drum
banging ockwardly
from my ears to thumb 

snapping my fingers
the taste is yum
oh my the fun
chewing my grits like gum

skipping enjoying 
my grits and rum
Form: Ode

Much Sugar Less Joy

Am i speaking with a girl coy
And not sensible Billy Roy
Just cramming much sugar in soy?

Up appetite sucrose could cloy,
Sweetened meals hearts hardly buoy,
Much sugar and less joy,
Yes, time bomb treating as toy;
Not better than Rum for Ahoy!

I could swear a food demon's ploy
To their finishing hands employ

"Now Diabetes here we come:
Billy Roy and I show the sum"
Form: Rhyme

Red Rum

fire, RAGE, frustration, rumble, fear
i cry for you,i pity you
Pitiful you pitiful me, numerous lies.
Who to believe?
me,i scream BELIEVE MY TESTIMONY,
i will no longer hide from your lies,
Its time for the truth, it'll help you,
FIRE, RAGE FRUSTRATION, RUMBLE, FEAR,
Lie all you want the truths here
RED RUM
MURDER she wrote
Lies spilled from her tongue,
EVERY WORD SHE SPOKE

A Rum Sort of Peace

the mundane world rolls on
silently roars the silver ocean
colourless yellow feelings sleep furiously
boundless, free, spread all over

without any contour
and an essence of percolating peace dawns
so ginormous is 'His' creation
ethereal beauty prevails

e v e r y w h e r e
of the 'Unseen, Unknown Architect
How thank 'Him' for his uniqye opus
that fetches eternal ecstasy to mankind?
© Gargi Saha  Create an image from this poem.
sea

Premium Member Rum-tum-tum

rum-tum-tum like a drum
full of emptiness; anticipatory
what shall I eat - food or zest?
I wait for the clang
rum-tum-tum like a drum
with brand new tires. tirelessly 
I can wait for fresh and vinyl
for a good long song, like
rum-tum-tum like a drum
yet while I wait, I’ll eat
lettuce? avocados? or score
coffee cake to go with a lake
of caffeine intake. full of
rum-tum-tum like a drum
anticipatory hum of new wheels
Form: Verse

Mothers, Sons, Drugs, and Rum

Death's a *****,
I was cheated by wrath,
Don't follow my path, 
No matter the itch.
I'm protecting you,
From the events to come,
Mother, please listen,
Put down your rum.
Dad always said,
To love and learn.
I'm your lesson,
I'm your happiness,
I'm your cries,
Your constant yearn.
We'll get through this,
As we always did,
Just when Dad left us,
I was only a kid.
Worry not Mother,
All will be swell,
Do it for me,
Life is yours,
Time will tell.

Premium Member Critterature: Beware Old Demon Rum

Here's the haughty elephant,
Won't eat food that's wrapped in cellophant.*
A catered meal is okay,
Like alfalfa or hay,
But most everything else is irrelevant.
The best of them try to abstain
From spirits like rum or champagne,
Which won't give them rabies,
But might lead to babies
Or ailments like gout and colitis.
Or, with this admonition,
A rare skin condition,
Some vets have called pachydermatitis.

*Thank you, Cowardly Lion, from "The Wizard of Oz"

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