Short Unsold Poems

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


Life Is Balanced Game

LIFE 
incessant STREAM 
HOT or COLD 
SOLD or UNSOLD 
in-NAME or de-FAME 
side by side or beyond 
a mysterious GAME!


-28/10/19 CTG, BD


Premium Member Artists and Popes

Paintings unsold
children unfed
emotions ignored
storied unread.

Hearts on the sword
wars cloaked in red
purple-hearted pope
the artist is dead.
war

Fallen Angel

Silver lining,
 pouch of gold

Last remittance,
 past unsold

Blessing tendered,
pearl gateway plain 

Fallen Angel
—redemption claimed

(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Old Family Photo Album

Old Family Photo Album



Family photo album
The entire family is long deceased
Album ends up in a thrift store
Full of beautiful family photos and history
Sits on shelf unsold
Gathering dust
old

Interactive

Unknowing the known 
    was politics 
of unsold thoughts.

        *

    This was-
cyberstalking. I do not want
    to talk.

       *

    The game
has backfired. It has
    become a land mine.

Satish Verma
art
Form: ABC


Each Memory

The shape of my spirit,
the weight of my soul

To measure the longing
of wishes unsold

Tomorrow the color
of yesterday’s stain

The taste of each memory 
—this moment retains

(University Of Pennsylvania: February, 2021)
Form: Rhyme

The Sun Shines On the Righteous

Expedience is ever close
Before a unseen world pose
To be smiled by a Father
Knowing a seal goes farther
In complete surrender
The example so tender
Unsold and kept hidden
A value worth giving
It is there men find
A voice so kind
Form: Couplet

A Street Vendor

The sun is up, heat unbearable,
He stands there rejected and miserable,
Slowly hope he loses,
as every potential buyer refuses.
His goods remain unsold,
His misery untold.
Swiftly the night approaches,
And his hunger encroaches.
He packs up and leaves,
Despite everything, he calmly sleeps...

As Sowed So We Reap

Like you I get old,
Like you equal water hold,
I’m like you at core,
All vegetables here sold,
It’s just that I get tired more 

And so, need to sleep,
We both date with death must keep,
You shrivelled, unsold,
I hungry when and too old, 
As sowed so we reap. 
___________________________ 
Tanka |28.08.2021|
Form: Tanka

Independence

When humans run from machine guns & famine, they morph into subspecies called refugees & aliens. They’re denied access, or caged & slapped by nations who flip pancakes for 24hrs & throw unsold sandwiches into trash bins. It’s amazing how silent the ticking clock is. Oh well. At least we finally know where Lebron’s going.
Form: Prose

A New Year's Greeting

Curtain falls and curtain folds
Thus, it means all aching voids
(May they be carats of golds),
Be in mind buried unsold.

Happy new year everyone!
Hope that things are all well done.
Set aside your woebegone,
And start your new year a happy one.

Forgive and forget
And then celebrate;
And a sound mind, indeed
Is all you ever need!

The Wait

An unmarried girl
in the wilderness
Any hopes of a suitor
are slim
Her virtue unsold
forever braving the cold
She waits for the promise
of him

An unpublished poem
in the syllabus
Any pressure to edit
unmoved
The words as they lay
both hunter and prey
To become what the future
— will choose


(Dreamsleep: September, 2025)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Blueprint for Devastation

They interviewed the artist 
inside her large blueprint mansion.
At one point, she criticized America 
for being overtly materialistic.
Her painting studio was large enough to
house half a dozen desperados...
Instead, it harbored dozens of giant unsold paintings.
I was amazed by how bright a person could be completely blind to their own 
devastating hypocrisy.

Naughty Pudding

Order by offer
Ingredients do matter
Stuck in first trouble

Boiling some flavors
Pudding missed in sweet manner
Moulding successfully failed

Yet we feel give up
Deserve for a second chance
Re-mould done! Relieved...

Sit tight in a fridge
Naughty pudding had a plan
Mission to seduce

Tempted by its look
My husband eat for a slice
Mother-in-law scold

Naughty pudding finally win in its mission, well, one pudding unsold :p
Form: Haiku

Strutting And Naked

You want their
affection 
but your words
to disdain

I voted for you
thrice
and would do so
again

But the many
unsold
who vote
with their heart

Abandon you now
as your
ego 
cavorts

Assuming 
your schtick
is attractive 
to all

You strut like
the ‘Emperor’
and naked
befall

Overlooking
the obvious
what the simplest 
man knows

To be liked
is a mandate
and lost
— in your show

(Sunday Morning New Shows: February, 2026)
Form: Rhyme

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