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Bitters Poems - Poems about Bitters

Premium Member Symbols for the Ancients and Us
... Shecht and eat the Paschal lamb Destroy the ‘no-gods’ of Canaan and Ham Break the middle matzo, hide half away Harbinger of a now-hidden day ......

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Categories: bitters, history, holiday, jewish, symbolism,
Form: Couplet
Love Drifts
...Brackish nerves languish and latch like seashells clinging to the shore— something in the water pulls them in… some fervor from something Familiar and Ancient. I’ve seen your eyes before… ......

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Categories: bitters, bereavement, character, courage, giving,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Smile Awhile
...smile exhale bitters and vile bile......

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Categories: bitters, emotions, happy, smile,
Form: Rhyme
Stations
...STATIONS Hark! Oh, Angels, where art Thou?! 'Tis here that thou art needest now! Before Him does the burden lie To bear the Cross to Calvary! While crowds all gather, He is not alone Though......

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Categories: bitters, easter, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Brawny Ale
...A frothy crown, pale as the whites  Of eyes widened with fascination, Perched on a robust body, deep as molasses. Brooding; concealing a warm rapport. But still so condescending, its stout postur......

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Categories: bitters, beautiful,
Form: Free verse



Small sips sound sane
...Best bitters; black bar beer, Brewed brown but ~ bottled blue. Drunk dirty; delays drag, During dark ~ dreadful days. Though taken through tough times, Thoughts turn to ~ tingling taste. ......

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Categories: bitters, beautiful, confusion, song,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member My Special Poet
...Ambition in its prime dwells within over time —poet My special poet… is one who gets their point across without agendas or alliterations of a bitter boss No need for perfect literates ......

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Categories: bitters, allegory, character, deep, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Word of God: In Mom's Desk Top Drawer
...Ark of laughter far from sea amid earth Hair be it long or short power still stays Mite of two, widows, others measure worth Bitters Holiness Hunger forty days We are born to this l......

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Categories: bitters, analogy,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Sweet Bitters
...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, persever......

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Categories: bitters, emotions, feelings, inspirational,
Form: Lento
SPHINX STONE
...SPHINX STONE I am Sphinx Stone Sun stationed statue silent sculptured synoptic not marble or granite nor black tourmaline or crystal sapphire quartz vortex for Void actualising sacred a......

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Categories: bitters, africa, age, color, extended
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Cookies and Cream
...I love you better than Cookies and Cream, my lifelong favorite more than seas playing footsies with shore clams in cuddly tropical sands The warmth of enticing Caribbean soothing waters ......

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Categories: bitters, hyperbole, inspirational love, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Cadets Dress Ship
...The tweet on the pipe called the muster fall-in The cadets all fell in with nary a din For now they’d be grouped for “Hands to Cleanship” To dress up the ship afore the Old Man's pip-pip Well-t......

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Categories: bitters, military, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dublin Night
...It’s 1:30am and we were at a cute little dance club in Dublin called “The Sugar Club.” It’s a converted movie theater with tables in stadium seating rows. That night was Salsa themed, and the regular......

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Categories: bitters, dance, humor, music, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member G L Trestrail and Co Ltd
... A rising sun burns like a solar flare from St. Augustine to St. Clair, to daze me from sleep’s tranquil hold and dreams of serendipities of old - to rise again the boy I was long ago ......

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Categories: bitters, nostalgia,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A New Mythology
...There is a new mythology emerging, Howling from the hind end of the pack, Scorching the composted leavings Of established orthodoxy as a pillar of flame Showing the way for true rock & roller......

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Categories: bitters, allegory, mythology,
Form: Blank verse

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