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Best Auction Poems

Below are the all-time best Auction poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of auction poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Auction of Emotions
When fate pulls at my haiku of heartstrings,
I curse the syllables of my poetic musings.
If I do not express my sorrows,
how will petals blossom in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: auction, angst, emotions, philosophy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Secret: For Auction Contest
This is the last piece to go. All the others are sold.
I hate to part with it, but now that I've grown old
I need to...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: auction, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: auction, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ballad of An Unsung Hero
Vivid flashbacks from bloodshed battles
his soul still ravaged by devious dictators,
cries from fallen comrades still echo in his mind,
but he continues to walk upon a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: auction, analogy, metaphor, political,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Grandma's Hand Sewn Quilt
When the auctioneer first shows it,
I feel a sudden piercing shock.
My grandma's hand-sewn antique quilt
Is on the auction block.
It is the lovely basket pattern
And her...

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Categories: auction, age, grandmother,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Olivia Newton John
Olivia Newton John
A stunning sex bomb
Starred in the film Grease
Talk of ‘ those pants’ never cease!

I wonder how she managed to dance
In skin-tight shiny black...

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Categories: auction, body, clothes, humorous, tribute,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Steeped In Virginal Dreams
Knowledge gained liberates or mutilates.
Ramifications of reality’s realm reached
make your insides want to abandon the body ship.
Rocking back and forth as you hurl dry acidic...

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Categories: auction, pain,
Form: Free verse
An Alien
The Guennol Lioness is the most expensive sculpture ever sold at auction.

If she were of another constitution, 
which was better suited to our social responsibilities...

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Categories: auction, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Red Balloon
The little girl
set free the red balloon
it flew over a certain death
free from the pain
of auction
the little girl
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Categories: auction, allusion, art, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Legacy of Law - Part One -
Law began by living,
locomotion meeting the rails of electric rainfall,
Consequence coursing through interconnected crossbeams
making all form fruit of the first & final recipe,
one great statute...

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Categories: auction, adventure, universe,
Form: Epic
Memory Quilt
Memory Quilt       “ For Auction contest “

Welcome all to today’s prestige event
Let us start the day ladies and gentlefolk
We...

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© Mary Grace  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: auction, beautiful, celebration, clothes, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bid On My Love
In the auction of love my heart is the star lot
The gavel will go down as Cupid’s arrow hit the spot  

I fall on...

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Categories: auction, love, romantic,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Trunk Full of Memories
old trunk in attic
baby shoes, a wedding dress
wrapped in tissue and in tears
time gone forever
no-one remembers it now
memories sold at auction

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Categories: auction, time,
Form: Choka
Crowning Glory
 
              Crowning Glory

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Categories: auction, appreciation, beautiful, business, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Bid On My Love
It's not up for auction like many other hearts are
It's there for the holding when soothing your scar


It beats only for one and that one...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: auction, love,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs