Long Bitters Poems
Long Bitters Poems. Below are the most popular long Bitters by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Bitters poems by poem length and keyword.
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 & rollers.
It’s...
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Categories:
bitters, allegory, mythology,
Form:
Blank verse
G L Trestrail and Co Ltd
A rising sun in the east does appear
from St. Augustine to St. Clair,
to loose me from sleep’s tranquil hold
and dreams of serendipities of old -
to rise again the boy I was...
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Categories:
bitters, nostalgia,
Form:
Couplet
Earth Balloon
WinWin Balloon EcoPolitics
for growing community health,
said the EarthBalloon economist,
is most effectively improved
by focusing on the bottom
of Earth's sacred communal balloon,
accepting shared responsibility
for those stuck in ground floor economies
of chronic survival issues,
perpetually repeating despairing depressed circles,
Rather...
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Categories:
bitters, earth, growing up, happiness, health, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Me and the Sea
The murderous monotony of every day, drives one`s life away, one breath at a time, with the mind pushed to the very edge and off the plateau where reason prevails. Where life is sold to...
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Categories:
bitters, nature, night, dark, beach, dark, life, morning,
Form:
I do not know?
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 some mock the One that claims...
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Categories:
bitters, easter, religion,
Form:
Rhyme
My Thoughts
life has it's ups and downs
it's highs and lows
with it comes a lot of crap
but what's most crappy?
Action speaks louder than words
now thats crap.
when you are in a mess
and four men are set to...
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Categories:
bitters, crazy, muse,
Form:
Free verse
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 who sip on bitters
and pound out heartless...
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Categories:
bitters, allegory, character, deep, introspection, irony, poets, voice,
Form:
Rhyme
Losing the Light
Losing the Light
by Cheryl Higgins
UNSUPPORTED CODE - with a quote
from J.D.
McClatchy's
three-part poem
"Three Dreams of
Elizabeth
Bishop" UNSUPPORTED CODE
What sold me on the
architect's clever
evening tour
besides designer
lighting and too
many vodka bitters
wasn't this
relentless dawn
scraping every
skylight in
every...
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Categories:
bitters, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Strange Wind
There is a strange wind blowing in the town and I don't know where it is bound.There is a strange wind blowing in the town and destiny is moving from door to door.Short wind, wide...
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Categories:
bitters, america, beautiful, betrayal, character, courage, future, gender,
Form:
Narrative
Power Mad Unlikeable Sad
Trekking every which way
mentally mapping at pace
to escape this place
captured for an age
with its rotten decay
compacted waste
attacking my taste
lack hunger stray
overwhelm left spaced
all sense misplaced
isolated and crazed
now a familiar place
thinking...
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Categories:
bitters, appreciation, power,
Form:
Rhyme
Tribute For Stone
(Dedicated to the memory of my mother Catherine who died June 3, 2011 and was
buried June 24, 2011)
Sleep. Wake. Sleep
Sleep on empty stomach
Food and liquor make the journey
Eat, make Epicurus laugh double for once
Holiness!...
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Categories:
bitters, funeraljune, men,
Form:
I do not know?
Tribute For Stone
(Dedicated to the memory of my mother Catherine who died June 3, 2011 and was
buried June 24, 2011)
Sleep. Wake. Sleep
Sleep on empty stomach
Food and liquor make the journey
Eat, make Epicurus laugh double for once
Holiness!...
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Categories:
bitters, funeraljune, men,
Form:
I do not know?
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...
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Categories:
bitters, dance, humor, music, night, teen, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Ollie
"Why you sitting out here Dele?",
She squeaked.
"You gonna be those tiny bitters' food!",
She exclaimed.
If there ever was more to Ollie,
It'd be more squeaks and exclaims.
I sits on the stairs out on the porch.
She makes to...
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Categories:
bitters, death, grief, health, mental illness, old, poems,
Form:
Free verse
SPHINX STONE
I am Sphinx Stone, Sun stationed statue
silent sculptured synoptic, not marble or
granite nor black tourmaline or crystal
timelines cutting cross my magnetic
magenta miracle to dissipate in dry
desert winds, my gaze unmoved...
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Categories:
bitters, africa, age, color, extended metaphor, heaven, history,
Form:
Ballad
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-trained, ...
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Categories:
bitters, military, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
Hope
Hope is built in bitters swell shaded grass & live to tell
Hope ensues the inner scope of laughters door
Hope derives a notion of negate useless chore
Hope looks ahead through time well spent in ardent pillars...
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Categories:
bitters, adventure, art, computer-internet, dedication, faith, funeral, hope,
Form:
Free verse
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, romantic love, stars,
Form:
Free verse
The Better Brew
Peter Beechey capped the last bottle, of the latest Lager that he'd brewed.
He's changed his recipe this time, so the argument will be renewed.
He say’s the Lager that I make is not near the standard...
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Categories:
bitters, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
My Wish
I hold your hand every day....
And have yet to feel your touch....
I have kissed your lips a thousand times....
Still their taste is unknown to me....
Each night I lay my head upon...
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Categories:
bitters, friendship, life, love, love,
Form:
I do not know?
Back Biters
They talk behind you
They say bad things about one to his master
They know the to and fro of ones life
They talk behind you just for favor ...
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Categories:
bitters, africa,
Form:
Blank verse
Brooklyn, N.Y. Usa 2009 (Revised)
A lost monopoly game
Williams fright, bridge, faith
and urban blight, Williamsburg.
Soot gray and brick red
the buildings stand
slumped, shrouded
death in the abundance
of vacant buildings.
Waste strewn sea
of asphalt, concrete, and urban dreams.
Cracks housing cigarette butts
form paper chains at...
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Categories:
bitters, adventurelost, prayer, lost, urban,
Form:
Free verse
Graffiti Prophet
From my window in the faces
As my bus drove other places
The graffiti prophet spoke
A gentle sermon in his joke
It’s not the questions, if you cry
It’s all the notions that are why
The passions of the moment...
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Categories:
bitters, future, imagination, inspiration, philosophy, psychological, self, truth,
Form:
Light Verse
Forgiveness
When you're hurt by someone you love and trust
You become sad a jumbled mass of nerve- crushed
...
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Categories:
bitters, forgiveness,
Form:
Rhyme
Hotkey
Hotkey is a game played on a keyboard,
All players in click sensation, typing fast
Through elation past even having to see.
Bits of binary pixel grinding trying...
To keep up with the speed of a mind,
Blind by a...
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Categories:
bitters, adventure, lovelight, light,
Form:
Rhyme