Short Rejections Poems

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


Double Tetractys-Admitting Mistakes

I
can take
rejections;
revise each line...
and understand what really went wrong.
It would be selfish to expect to win;
yes, they deserve 
the glory... 
no, not
I.
Categories: rejections, introspection, on writing and words,
Form: Tetractys


Quatrain 10 Nightmare

To be alone with no one to love is a nightmare to the rejected.
If only the rejectors would realize what they do.
Their rejections come back to give them true nightmares.
Their knights will not be able to protect them.
Categories: rejections, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain

You

Plentiful wine, abundant beauties, endless snuff
Sorrowful rejections, shameful insults
Could never keep you away from my heart
I have tearful sighs, sleepless nights
Dismay, disarray of mind
Still I wish never to make love to another
For I have had the best ever
Categories: rejections, devotion
Form: Ode

Haiku Dis

Thought for sure they would
love my most-recent haiku;
it was rejected.  


[One of the hard parts of writing is the frequent rejections, both from publishers, and sometimes the (possibly imagined) polite but unenthusiastic praise at open mikes. I'm sure everyone experiences it.]
© Jim Tidd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rejections, poetry,
Form: Senryu

The Mets Or the Met

Should one watch sports or 
    go see great art 
Why not do both ? 
After all Carl Sandburg wrote a poem
   about baseball 
   and he was an artist 
No. I don't draw as well
    as the old masters
but I do enjoy doodling 
    There is no joy in Mudville 
   if you receive rejections letters!
Categories: rejections, art, poetry, sports,
Form: Blank verse


Tanka and Senryu

Tanka

Roses like soft rain
Deluge kills them brutally 
Fallen pale petals 
Drowning in a pool of regrets 
As rain makes furrows in soil 

 

Senryu
Floor cleaners are
Floor managers, wear logos
But pay is lousy. 

Senryu
A man from Timor
Selling flowers to lovers  
Lives on rejections
Categories: rejections, funny, hope, life,
Form: Tanka
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Salt Fish

Listen to poem:
Fish dewatered delicious
is sucked dry with salt 
its flesh assaulted
rung out, and dried stark stiff.

Wishes like fishes rise in expectation
that hopes and dreams will flourish
but knock-backs, rebuffs and rejections
desiccate dreams with onslaught of salt,
shrivelling wishes, wizen to salt wish.
Categories: rejections, analogy, fish, food, hope, inspiration,
Form: Free verse

Dream On

Believe in no obstacles and limitations.
  A sweet song can heal, cure and delivery a massive storm out of your life.
   Shake off depressions, rejections, discouragement, sorrows and tragedies.
   Dream on, dream on, dream on, dream on and dream on!
   Doubters are foolish to underestimate your power of greatness.
Categories: rejections, business, dedication, faith, friendship, happiness, hope, inspirational,
Form: I do not know?

Life These Days

Maria Paz
Friend, sister, adviser, teacher
Daughter of Rosalinda and Raymundo
Lover of nature, goodness, and poetry
Who feels emptiness, pain, and disappointments
Who fears continuous rejections, arguments, and snakes
Who would like to see the Holy land, the Pope and the Universal Studio 
Resident of Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand
Samelo
Categories: rejections, life,
Form: Bio

Excuses

always not knowing the answers,
resorting to a logical reasoning complex.
borrowed excuses,
with no easy solutions.
lies with hidden meanings,
trying to attempt an unwanted detour.
always looking for an easy way out,
tempted to reach out.
drowning with reasons;
not always looking forward to the lessons,
fear of the ongoing slaughter of rejections.
Categories: rejections, imagination, stress,
Form: Rhyme

Breaking the Barriers

The blue eyes of hers wavering between choices,
Whether to stay or leave, accept or create
All thoughts lingering her mind about the over and done
Recollecting the abuses and rejections of the past
She got up sleeves folded, head held high,
Ran with daring determination,
Tracing the light of stars in the darkest night
With the hope of daylight.
Categories: rejections, abuse, confidence, dedication, dream, hope, identity, star,
Form: Blank verse

Rejection

You're depressed because a few girls have rejected you.
One of them even called you ugly but that's certainly not true.
Please don't let those rejections get you down.
I want to see a smile on your face instead of a frown.
Your depression has affected your appetite and you're getting thinner.
Cheer up, those girls rejected you but I still say say that you're a winner.
Categories: rejections, angst, sorry, sympathy,
Form: I do not know?

Trash

Everything is good for something,
Some do like the trash others like the quality,
What we hate today we can put in a basket,
Make art from our yesterday’s rejections,
Creating strength from our weaknesses,
It’s not fair to like the pretty ones only,
Making us believe we are the saints and holy,
While we throw away the tomorrow’s innovations,
All of it just for our little egos.
Categories: rejections, inspirational, strength,
Form: Light Verse

Don'T You Pretend To Love Me

"you may say I'm emotionally misplaced,
But why show true feelings,
When it's thrown back into my teary face,
With flat out rejections,
Having no expectation guarded as a person alone I walk,
Talking of not too much,
Realising now I don't need,
Live in any pretence,
Happy here to sit on the fence,
True beauty without pretences."

-Ds-

Copyright © Daniel Stafford | 03/01/2016
Categories: rejections, anxiety, depression, poetry,
Form: ABC

Self Acceptance

beyond my beautiful reflection there is self
acceptance make it clear for the misconceptions
of the one's who assume from their perception
and make handouts of their rejections.

I know who I am I know where I stand I'm
determined to expand to be in command
it's in my demand I will continue to rise looking
down on the hateful eyes never will I be what
you expected nor am I here to be accepted.
© Mila Dash  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rejections, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
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The Arsonist

You set the bridge on fire, burning away all of our connections
You are the most calculating arsonist looking back in reflections
You might as well have staked my heart like vampire rejections
You dragged me in like smack spoon fed with sweet cooked injections
I, no more than a self-proclaimed codependence need for interjections
I was lucky enough to get away from your endless contradictions
Categories: rejections, addiction, allusion, angst, betrayal, how i feel,
Form: Monorhyme

An Enchanted Place

"I open the door and cross the threshold of imagination"
A Rambling Poet 

An enchanted place
Where ex lovers still love me
Dead relatives live

Tears from the past dry
Years of mourning and pining
A forgotten dream
Failed attempts are successes
Rejections acceptances

Then I walk back through the doorway
 Ready to accept reality

Haiku, Tanka and Crystalline
Jack Horne for Constance’s Three Gems contest
Written 29th July
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rejections, imagination,
Form: Haiku

Old Headlines

Betrayal, precious lover,
Don't fear the burning of your words
Just see my tears 
Run silver rivers
In your mirrors shining fierce
Against reflections
And rejections
In my yearning for your heart..
Who but you
Could waste the greatest treasure
And demand no heart's desire;
But worry not in untrue fashion,
It's only one more broken word..
Just know your love is not required;
You are only yesterday's old headlines
In the fire.
Categories: rejections, loss,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Unraveled Seams

Rejections feared
That have come true
My heart’s been seared
Romantic coup
All hopes and dreams
They fade away
Unraveled seams
Begin to fray

Eyes wide open
Still not seeing
Always hopin’
And believing
I will collapse
I fall apart
There’s left no chance
For lonely hearts

When waves crash down
A sight to see
You weren’t around
They crashed on me
The setting sun
It waves goodbye
You were the one
That made me cry
Categories: rejections, introspection, life, lost love,
Form: I do not know?

Glory Would Arrive

In dismissals we live, 
In rejections we thrive 
Life is not for the naïve 
Failures are meant to revive;
To make you learn fast
So one day,
 Glory would Arrive…
 Don’t falter or Run away
 When they put thorns in your way
When they push you aside
For one day, 
Remember,
Glory would Arrive…
Why drown your heart?
Why expecting your demise?
Within tornadoes
And storms,
Didn’t you survive?
 
So one day,
Remember
Glory would Arrive
Categories: rejections, destiny, dream, faith,
Form: Sonnet

I Believe In Love a Little Less Each Day

Life can get pretty hard when relationships go astray.
I believe in love a little less each day.
Marriages used to last fifty years, now they last fifty weeks.
Couples keep breaking up even though true love is what everybody seeks.

I've gotten a lot of rejections because I don't have much money.
Everything gets dark when I begin to think it's sunny.
I have pain and anger because life goes this way.
I believe in love a little less each day.
Categories: rejections, angst, people, sad, love,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Who Am I

lost, so lost in depression,  
use to rejections,
stomped on like nothing,
forgotten like a thrown away napkin.
un noticed, miss treated, unloved.
Apart of me is missing, the other taken,
with nothing left to show
Darkness has becomes my obsection.
Punished on a daily bases.
Can't seem to find my self, 
Affaid to be me honestly.
Only if they could see,
Only if they know
what i go through
what its like to be me 
the lost,cold lonely one
in the street.....
Categories: rejections, mystery, sad, me, me,
Form: ABC

I Have Loved, Hurt, Broke Hearts, Lied But Most of All I Have Learned

She loved me
I loved her
She gave me all
I played her like a ball
I neglected her,
As a girl when she grows neglects her doll
I left her hurt
I broke her heart
As long as I live,
Myself I will never forgive
Clear rejection I gave
Now she will hate me until I go to the grave
In her heart I've now been banned
Insults, rejections and cursings I have earned
I loved, hurt, broke hearts, lied and now,
A hard lesson I have learned.

PoeticMonwa
Categories: rejections, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme

The Sum

The Sum
By Benjamin Mui

I am not a failure			Nor am I a success
I am not my rejections			Nor am I my acceptances
I am not worthless			Nor am I special
I am not my weakness			Nor am I my strength
I am not a loss				Nor am I a triumph
	            I am the sum of Nothing
Neither the bad			Nor the good
Not who was				Nor whoever is to come
		     I am what is Now
	            I am who I choose to be
		      I am my actions
		 	   … 

			  I am
Categories: rejections, dream, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member

Unfulfilled Dreams

Some career choices come with small voices.
Some callings seem divine, but are ahead of their time.
Certain dreams die on the vine, and nightmares begin to shine.
Such things happen, not by design, but by a ton of denying.
Rejections here, jealousies there, and so few who really care.
So, the best is left on the table, and the remains are laid to rest.

070622PSCtest, Bite Size Poem No48 Poetry Contest,                                  
Line Gauthier. 2P
Categories: rejections, dream,
Form: Rhyme
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