Best Bitters Poems

Devils spawn, Beelzebub groupie
Sinister minister of hell fire
Sinner sister 
Brother dire in a B-movie
Left handed without fealty
Never to sit on the right
hand of some imaginary deity
Cursed with evil notoriety
To abide with the devils pet goat 
seething with bitter envy
Left handed, bereft of pity
anticlockwise to dither
slimy...

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.For Public Domain

Winter Bitters
(after reading Robert Browning's
Home Thoughts, From Abroad)

The tiny leaves of Spring, a memory
not long passed before this Summer arrived.
We might have thought they'd never go away,
but the thought did not come, and they died
in Autumn, before the coming Winter day.

We missed their...

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Burnt tangerines create sweet bitters;
Current temperature? I’m coasting;
Sunburnt skin eventually heals,
weren’t you flabbergasted I’m thriving!

Resilience starts within your spirit,
perseverance is when you stand up!
Enhance that glow with each sunrise,
brilliance is a smile sipping that cup....

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