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Bittersweet Poems - Poems about Bittersweet

Mid-Laughter and Lights
The flickering light as if fireflies' laughter echoes the summer air. Rides spun dizzying merry-go-round! Can't wait for more minutes ahead. A thrill to feel is here to stay around. Sweaty palms with ticket stubs hold, With sugar thrill laced in fingers unfold. Plastic pouches filled with goldfish, plushies all around soon waiting for your sure win! Come on, let's join the...

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Categories: bittersweet, joy, mystery, nostalgia, romance,
Form: Lyric
Midway Psalm
The Ferris wheel, a spoked and sputtering crown, Pinned back the velvet dark. We paid our fee In crumpled bills, bought passage to the town Where gravity forgot to work its shift for me. Neon stuttered sermons: "Try Your Luck!" "See Freaks! Win Love!" The calliope’s thick breath, A sticky-sweet confection, made us drunk On promises spun sugar-brittle, sweet as death. We traded...

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Categories: bittersweet, meaningful, metaphor, peace, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Those We love
Those we love don't go away, they walk beside us everyday. Their murmurs, soft, in tree leaf whisper defrosts my heart that did grow crisper with grief that stained inside and out when I existed with my doubt that vanished voices of yesteryear would come alive and stir the atmosphere. Breezy hands, they touch my shoulder, rustling lilac plumes and growing bolder— as shaking...

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Categories: bittersweet, grief, introspection, joy, loss,
Form: Rhyme
I Miss The Crab Apple Orchard, And Pretending To Be A Knight
Life has an odd habit of making you miss old street curbs and stop signs. The street I miss the most, though, has to be the cross street between the crab apple orchard and my friend Jacksons house. Something about that place felt infinite. And something about sometimes friends feels greater than sometimes. Would I go...

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Categories: bittersweet, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
All Of The Little Things Our Little Brains Remember For A Short Little While
Isn’t it odd? All of the little things that remain in our little brains? One day, you’ll be walking down the street, just minding your own business, when suddenly you’ll stop. A sight, A sound, A scent, A memory, Something you have never seen, heard, smelt, or even experienced before will catch your incomplete attention so completely. And send you to the most magical of places. Something from your childhood, Something from the small town you drove through last autumn. Something...

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Categories: bittersweet, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



We Were Almost Always
There was a time your name felt like a beginning— a gentle unfolding of everything soft in a world that had grown too loud. You weren’t just someone I loved. You were a season. A chapter where the pages turned slower just to make it last. We were never chaos, never fire. We were rain on windows, late-night playlists, hands brushing in silence. Almosts wrapped in always. Goodbyes hidden...

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Categories: bittersweet, art, deep, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member BitterSweet Kiss
BitterSweet Kiss Every Flower On Display Bidden, Bitten... Has It's Day. -Gray Squirrel 06-13-2025...

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Categories: bittersweet, life,
Form: Rhyme
Glasswing
She flutters on silence, a creature stitched from light and ache-- too fragile to stay, too fierce to fall. He never saw the cracks until she flew through them....

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Categories: bittersweet, heartbreak, metaphor, strength,
Form: Free verse
The Bittersweet Paradox
On sleepless nights, down winter's road, A lonely knight in silence strode. He raised his drink, a golden hue, And bellowed deep, as sorrow grew. A sudden quake—his soul it stirred, And through the haze, strange voices heard. He counted souls with trembling hand, Each one like grains of dying sand. The night grew cold, the stars grew dim, No cheer nor warmth remained...

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Categories: bittersweet, allegory, analogy, culture, dream,
Form: Rhyme
A Bittersweet Love
From shore to shore Two lovers and a world apart From shore to shore They yearn, they long and they adore She couldn't calm his aching heart Never love from far, from the start From shore to shore. (Form: Rondelet)...

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Categories: bittersweet, heartbroken, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sweet and Bittersweet
I try to be a woman of substance embracing my imperfection withdrawn and devoid of arrogance with means of simple expression attentive to the voice of love within integrity running beneath my skin heart palpitations bubbling to the surface all it takes is a warm and lingering embrace to release daydreams subtle and sweet and even accept the outcome bittersweet AP: 3rd place 2025 ...

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Categories: bittersweet, integrity, love, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I see in your almond eyes that bittersweet love
I see in your almond eyes that bittersweet love, Flowing slowly as you gaze at my pale and silent face, Your heart may now carry pure intentions, without shadows, But I cannot erase the stings, insults, betrayals, screams, Though I want to love you, my heart has had its share of pain, Now every fiber of my being is tired...

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Categories: bittersweet, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
bittersweet life
“If you've never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.” - Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe --------------------------------------------------- Even sweetest freshwater river seeks refuge in salts of vast ocean...

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Categories: bittersweet, life,
Form: Free verse
Bittersweet Surrender
Love is cruel, a heartless game A punishment for minds unwell, a flame That burns with fervor, yet brings despair A bittersweet reminder of love's cruel snare It taunts and teases, a merciless delight A rollercoaster of emotions, day and night It lifts us high, only to let us fall A never-ending cycle, beyond recall Love is cruel, a test of will A trial...

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Categories: bittersweet, bereavement, love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bittersweet
I loved you most in our bittersweet years a taste of honey wrapped in tears ...

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Categories: bittersweet, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse

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