Short Bitter Poems

Short Bitter Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Bitter by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Bitter by length and keyword.


Bitter Road

Take the moment, then, my heart and home
Take it and be gone.
Leave me rising dust and memories
To kill me when alone.
© Paul James  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Quatrain


Premium Member Swallowed Sounds

bitter cold voices lost behind woolen mufflers definition blurred
written December 7, 2021
Form: Senryu

Lividity

BITTER BLOOD
I'M TORN
INTO FLIMSY FRAGMENTS
PULLING ME APART
YELLOWING
WITH MISUSE
THIS STATE OF ENTROPY
BLACKENED.

Copycat

Glamour
Grammar 

Jealous 
Careless 

Believe 
Naive 

Slicker  
Quicker 

Deny 
Goodbye 

Bitter 
Twitter
Form: Footle

Fruit Bats

The bats
ate the sweet almonds
to the last
but the other
laden almond tree
with bitter fruit
was not to their taste.


Premium Member Bankers' Ball 2008

A potato layer bake
and sausage stretcher
Evaporated milk with
left-over pudding
Sugar sandwiches-
A bitter
Squeeze !
Form: Epulaeryu

Bitter Tears

C arried through life on the spillage of blood
R azed raw by ruthlessly sadistic emotions
Y earning desperately for death
Form: Acrostic

Nailed and Failed

A no-one that I knew I nailed
The someone that I loved I failed
What a bitter pill to take
To lust, not love, a big mistake
Form: Rhyme

The Shed

That shed you made,
It was cold, and bitter.
You used our oak,
My oak,
For your,
Own reasoning. 

[Work in progress]

Bitter Grapes

Sour are the fruits of some grapes, some say, but those that fail to yield their own fruits are bitter about other's fruits
Form: Prose

Premium Member Whittle Owl

somewhere 
along 
its 
jagged 
route,
bitter owl 
will 
blot 
the 
sun
and 
carve 
the heart 
into 
a 
mouse

Premium Member Hot Chocolate On a Bitter Day

Tasty  hot chocolate
Marshmallows and sweets
Lots of crud at the bottom.
Dig it out; that’s where the sweetness is, fool!

Blue Devils

Teardrops in my palms
Shapeless, bitter emotions

I tried relentlessly to caress
The sour taste, warm touch

Burns my flesh.
© Johan Poet  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Floodgates

Bitter is the wind this night 
which tosses up the ocean tide
see how it opens up the floodgates 


8/ 17/ 2013  7:15pm

Premium Member How So

How is it
that the sweetest
memories
hurt tenfold more
than those most bitter
buried deep
in this aching
heart of woe.

Premium Member Simple Tastes

Watercress soup with garlic
Jersey royals
Samphire with caper butter
lemon mayonnaise
Anchovy fillets
Bitter beer
Cool!
Form: Epulaeryu

Half Truth Dreams

Lump of bitter dreams
In waking, tough to swallow
In sleep, liquid pools
to be tasted, drank silver,
only to metal harden.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Autumn Notes

you carry a tune
as delightful as autumn ~
raspy and bitter

10/8/22
Contest: Simply Senryu Contest
Sponsor: John Lawless
Form: Senryu

Premium Member The Altar Weeps

      A marriage ends
      The altar weeps
         her bitter tears

      Fondly she remembers
         better years
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Blizzard Conditions

chilling winds pick up ominous gray surrounds me bitter cold brings snow
written January 28, 2022
Form: Haiku

Truthful Drug

Truth
Sometimes
Is a 
bitter pill
To swallow

But after
Absorbing

It has the
Power

To reach
The heart
of healing

Premium Member The Bitter Day

The bitter cold day
we run to escape its claws;
Falling at its feet 
frozen in the air like ice,
Our screams only heard by Spring
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Cure and Curse

Age is a weary and bitter cure.
  Young women are now immune to my infectious charms…
the fevers of Youth have broken!

Premium Member Bitter Notes

Bitter coffee notes,
strawberries, habaneros;
A mixed aroma;
It smells like when you are here 
but still cannot feel my gaze.
Form: Tanka

Brush

Tossing as much positivity,
into the air,
as possible,
to sugarcoat all,
the bitter negativity inside,
will leave,
a cavity.

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