Chaucerian Acrostic
...Can anyone accuse you of pretence?
Are you inflicting pain for pain’s own sake?
So little can be said in your defence –
Unless you have some argument to make,
Apart from spitting venom like a sna...
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Categories:
bitterer, lost love,
Form: Acrostic
The Pain Within
...Pain,
A four-letter word, yet so profound,
A silent emotion that cannot be expressed,
It reaches deep within, touching the heart’s core,
Unleashing vulnerability, leaving one in sorrow’s embrace....
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Categories:
bitterer, dark, emotions, feelings, grief,
Form: Free verse
After Love
...Already there it is nearly gone,
no magic, no music flat waves.
I am, because of you and trusted how we, two lovers met.
And other people,
lost along the beaconed way and we cannot see to u...
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Categories:
bitterer, 12th grade,
Form: Acrostic
Ice Covered Roads Get the Best of Us
...January has pocketed frosted dreams
Firmly tucked away, hidden under her black ice
Her treacherous blizzards torment the foolhardy
Many driving too fast on her hills should know better
In a hea...
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Categories:
bitterer, car, death,
Form: Prose Poetry
Diabolic Despot
...He bears in hand old guiles,
And tons of wiles he wields
Across breath-mired worlds,
Upon sands of mortal fields.
His chilling senses waning fall,
And eyes darkish with tired sins
Beget th...
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Categories:
bitterer, betrayal, death, evil,
Form: Imagism
The Most Leaves Fall In Autumn
...Ain’t no sunshine when the sun goes down
And lately I’ve been withering in the light of day
So the dark creatures come out at night and stare at my thighs with those greedy eyes
They confuse my...
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Categories:
bitterer, addiction, autumn, grief, nostalgia,
Form: Romanticism
Untrue Truth
...the dialogue and the time have flowed,
then the night came and rolled over the pavement
with opening its huge and dark wings
embracing armful fallen leaves in her breast,
and goes leaving a r...
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Categories:
bitterer, allegory, anxiety, heart, hurt,
Form: Verse
School Is Cool
...School is Cool?
School is cool he says,
Pardon, what have you just said?
I think you must be feeling ill,
You had better retire to bed.
School is definitely not cool,
It is nastier than the flu,
Yo...
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Categories:
bitterer, school,
Form: Rhyme
L'Amour
...No pleasure as sinful, no treasure deadlier,
Le chocolat, as love, the purer the bitterer,
A moment’s delight, neither wrong nor right,
A cheap sparkle, brief but blindingly bright....
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Categories:
bitterer, love
Form: Verse