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Firewater Poems - Poems about Firewater

Premium Member A Letter Home
...Since I left home in Memphis, Tennessee, and landed on my face. I woke up in this place, and saw fishes swimming next to me.  I found firewater, never the sun. Is this any way to drown, in the......

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Categories: firewater, depression, drink,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Serpent’s Lair
...How wicked the tricks of your serpent’s lair a lingual place of wild mango magic behind caliente lips where a supple sensualist lies in seductive ambush rum on the rocks spices the red bed of your......

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Categories: firewater, dark, kiss, longing, night,
Form: Free verse



Whynehouse
...Sadness was silly when I was twenty-three Masked with a drink whenever it bothered me When my head hits the pillow, it won’t leave me be   Curious what keeps it alive inside me A lifetime of f......

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Categories: firewater, angst, anxiety, devotion, growth,
Form: Rhyme
On the run
...*On The Run* Hunted by my past, trailed by my shadow, Intoxicated by elixir of youth, I climb the ìrókò beyond the leaves. Wail of woes, dehydrated dreams Crushed in the battlefield of th......

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Categories: firewater, anxiety, fate, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mid-Summer Night Dream
...Once upon a time in the land of the Hobbits, Fili was annoyed. He wanted excitement. He was the youngest of the twelve dwarves, Dressed in a blue cloak and sporting a yellow beard, He entered i......

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Categories: firewater, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Bitter Tears
...I’m a modern Native American Recalling with pride Our mighty Indian Nations Before the attempted Genocide. The tide of invaders that Washed across these lands With conquest in their hearts An......

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Categories: firewater, america, history, hope, native
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Winter Dirge
...The earth is cold distant fires burn-- icy arrows pierce my sullen body and the emptiness becomes unbearable. Without her the wind is my enemy and the glowering sky suggests her absence.......

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Categories: firewater, absence, angst, dark, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Children From the Aftermath
...I was six When safety died. My father Home from war Would drink whiskey Straight from the bottle. Veins full of firewater, Filled and spilled, Fighting off his pain. My mother locked......

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Categories: firewater, war,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Firewater
...All top hats and class, like the gentleman who knows how to throw you against a wall; Words so cordial but hand him a guitar and everything comes unhinged; Leaving you hallucinating on tha......

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Categories: firewater, emotions, feelings, muse, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Adventures of Captain Morgan
...Well, it all started when Jim Beam bet Jack Daniels that Captain Morgan couldn't go out and get himself some Wild Turkey. Old Fashioned, like Old Granddad, Captain Morgan like some of you, re......

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Categories: firewater, drink, fantasy, friendship, humor,
Form: Free verse
Halloweenie Roast
... Zotëri Count Dracula is a terrible, Transylvanian host Mister Tarantula Fangs serves watered down pâté: Fermented, sour liver compost I know, because my Planet Terror peep Tarantino ......

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Categories: firewater, fun, humorous, scary, word
Form: Light Verse
Fermented Pollen
... The beer gardens of hatred are in full bloom Fermented flowers of genetic flaw fanaticism ......

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Categories: firewater, dark, imagery, metaphor, truth,
Form: Alliteration
Black Cloaked Man
... In one ghost whisper of a town, the mourning sunset had bloodshot eyes A tombstone place that was long shadow past it’s boomtown prime Withering eureka hope fills the short cu......

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Categories: firewater, allegory, death, symbolism, violence,
Form: Epic
Dance With the Devil
... Burn the rug, burn the house down Swing on the chandelier, like a monkey thug Wobble around the room, like a drunken clown Dance with the devil, go let his liquid fire ways lighte......

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Categories: firewater, dark, death, imagery, spiritual,
Form: Ballad
Halloweenie Roast
... Zotëri Count Dracula is a terrible, Transylvanian host Mister Tarantula Fangs serves watered down fermented, sour liver compost I know because my Planet Terror peep Tarantino sa......

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Categories: firewater, fun, humorous, parody, word
Form: Light Verse

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