Best Bitter Sweet Poems

Bitter sweet like a strawberry,
My breath slowly fades away from me
As the sun fades at dusk.
Perhaps the journey has placed us here,
Or by chance we just don’t care.

Bitter sweet like the cutting of old ties,
The warmth melts me,
My skin, my bones, the tender muscles sing
The sweet soft sounds of serenity,
Or perhaps it is the silence...

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Most times, there was just the three of us                                              ...

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Your room remains unchanged-   
just as it was when you went away-
Care Bears and books still arranged,
your dolls all lined up on display. 
   
On the table by the window nigh-
miniature Briar horses on array-
now gather dust not knowing why     
you nevermore come in to play.

The Gingham...

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There she was
just a few feet away

Glossed lips
Powdered face
Faux lashes
Contoured cheeks

We locked eyes
then she looked away
cold and distant

Maybe she was
tempting me
to walk in her fire

She was sweet
like sugar

Sugar is what tempts us
pouring upon
our wildest fantasies

Sugar gives us cavities
rots our teeth
our soul
our world

It seems
vanity is
always in style......

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He left, I was only a boy; vernal and 
frail 
and ignorant,
In a fierce world, hardship and 
dread there 
within, and there was I, growing 
bitter 
and ever
cold.

I clung to her who's flesh from 
whence I 
came;from her who bore birth's 
pain. 
Her 
nurture fed me and  her heart 
spilled on 
mine a good,...

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She rotates under the balance of my hands
sweet memories we derive
unfamiliar dance steps, mistakes already reaching five
but with the reception of her smile, I thrive.

The stream of her tender archive
into it I completely dive
even when our minds sometimes disagree with the jive
mysteriously to our pleasure, both hearts connive.

Gradually clicking and stepping
the motion is set, we...

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A Bittersweet Celebration

His wife had died and how he wept
The world he knew had tumbled down 
He recalled what she used to say
Enjoy this day for it will end
They lived as if each one would stop
and not another day shall rise
And happiness was theirs to hold
And now he lived to seize each day
A Carpe Diem...

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"A Bitter Sweet Tragedy"

   It was a typical mid-morning, on January 15 1919, on Keany Square in
 north Beantown, you could hear the hooves of horses clopping up and down.

   Above the hustle and bustle normally abound, came a deep throated
    resonating and horrifying sound.

   It...

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I wake up in a cold sweat
I can't catch my breath
I think back to when we met
My lungs collapse like death

My mind thinks of you as lost
My heart still endlessly searches
Without you i'm cold as frost
I accept you're gone and my heart lurches

The tears start to stream from my eye
I look at the pictures i...

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they fell
                     for our freedom
               far away from loved ones
           ...

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The  rocky road of childhood lingers on
And still I hear the echoes of those  nerds.
A  galaxy  away and yet so near,
I was the  dove  and they the preying birds.

Hey,  'chunky', ' lemonhead' they'd shout at me
And  snickers  would resound throughout the yard,
'Three Musketeers',  'The Smarties'...

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The greatest gift a man could ask for in his life 
Is being responsible for the smile his woman brings alive

She's already a goddess that was sent from heaven 
That devilish stare she gives with her eyes 
And a smile so rejuvenated like water it quenches your thirst 
I walked by her many time 
Side-eyeing...

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Beneath the snow, sharp thorns grow on your tomb;
Reminders of the rose, that there once bloomed. 



Inspired by:  Brian Strand's contest, 'Double Take.'
Placed 3rd...

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Sadness sets in like the night
Gradually and slowly in the dimming light
It melts the light into the horizon
Occupying the vast space, its job done

You fall asleep waiting for day to appear
You wait for dawn to near
You close your eyes and enter a nightmare
You cry in virtual reality leaving you bare

Finally it's over and day sets...

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So easy in love, 
so easily out. 
With the flick of a switch, 
your left in no doubt.

Maybe someday she`ll realise, 
but then maybe she wont. 
What if now she feels alive, 
now that you dont.

We pull strings and play games, 
impassionately annoy. 
Passion becomes a crime 
when we play with hearts like they`re toys.

Now...

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