Best Rejected Poems
Below are the all-time best Rejected poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of rejected poems written by PoetrySoup members
Cry of the CityWe will walk then, you and I
When daylight shuts her weary eye;
Down the streets where beggars sleep
And drug crazed addicts spend their keep.
On streets that...
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Categories:
rejected, life, prayer, time, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
The Angel InsideCoral life forms in copious swarms
feast in the Cambrian chyme,
dividing their cells and forming their shells
to end on the seafloor as lime.
Tectonic churning and magma...
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Categories:
rejected, allegory, angel, art, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
Road Crash of WordsUpon the doorstep of my paradise,
You’ll find h e l l i s h pansies and t a i n...
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Categories:
rejected, angst, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Please~PLEASE~
Please pick me up!
Never mind I'm gonna fall, anyways
Please show me how to tie my shoes and sing a song!
Don't worry mommy,...
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Categories:
rejected, absence, abuse, anger, cousin,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The ButterflyEnroling you a worm (cumbersome and)
hairy, you- scimitar of leaves
Knows the pain ,writhing pupae
Abandoned and convicted
Constricted hanging straightjacket
Squirming like a jackrabbit
Gagged nocturnally - ...
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Categories:
rejected, angel, beauty, butterfly,
Form:
Free verse
A Lonely RuinEtched in my soul
is the peace of a lonely ruin,
an old chapel on the skull
of a hill surrounded by pastureland
and wind-swept trees.
Below a lake stretches...
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Categories:
rejected, hope, life,
Form:
Free verse
Silent SinsThere is a proverbial hypocrisy to
'See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil'
when sinister perversions,
lurk behind closed doors,
contained inside four walls.
What is a...
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Categories:
rejected, abuse, betrayal, sin,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
rejected, cat, death, pets,
Form:
Personification
Moment of Truth
I was walking with two friends of mine,
when we saw a woman
who was tall, beautiful and black
They spoke lewd to her,
so she didn't speak back
In...
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Categories:
rejected, perspective, philosophy, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Providence On Behalf of Love - a Collaboration With Robert LindleyI that have seen such beauty
fallen beneath its gleam
rejected my life’s duty
to wade thus in its stream
Saturating me with...
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Categories:
rejected, desire, destiny, passion, true
Form:
Rhyme
Penny For Your ThoughtsSo many pennies,
lost in the system,
rejected, neglected,
dejected -
cursed by '99' price tags,
a charity box favourite,
nobody wants nor waits for.
So many forgotten pennies,
lost on the streets...
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Categories:
rejected, analogy, metaphor, political,
Form:
Free verse
Providence On Behalf of LoveProvidence On Behalf Of Love
I that have seen such beauty
fallen beneath its gleam
rejected my life’s duty
to wade thus in its...
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Categories:
rejected, beauty, devotion, love, passion,
Form:
Rhyme
And So I Wrote a PoemOne day when I was walking
inside a wood alone,
admiring the autumn trees,
I found a big flat stone.
It beckoned me to sit awhile -
...
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Categories:
rejected, write,
Form:
Rhyme
Laments of My HeartI hear the voices you once bequeathed to me
Enchanting concert music in symphony of love
But I left the theater before the show was over
Walking all...
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Categories:
rejected, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
Response of a Harried Housewife To Her Spouse“The
children
are always
interrupting.
You never have time
for me,” her husband whined
as he dropped his dirty clothes
right there on the floor by the bed.
Trying not to roll her...
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Categories:
rejected, wife, work, me,
Form:
Etheree