Short Embittered Poems

Feeling spring time breeze
           over my embittered chest
           ancient perfume smell...

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Everything I regret happened so many years ago.
Nowadays I refuse to be taught just how to even let go.
Until that night I overcame my embittered ego....

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slices of deep night

cut through heart's embittered walls---

Dove's light passes by



Haiku On Enlightenment Contest
For: Marvin Celestial
Daniel Port...

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Dark and mysterious 
Are the depths 
Of the human heart
Separated by cruel fate 
We spend our embittered lives apart. 

           W.A. CHOLT.  Copyright Fergal O Reilly. 2018....

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Ebrious by today
Exhausted by yesterday
Embittered by tomorrow,
Give me one more,
Sip
Stride
Swing,
I am greedy for another,
Tot
Trial
Tribulation,
Bar me from life,
I am her alcoholic lover....

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crimson lips
stained with blood of saints
rides the beast
steers the reins
embittered roar portends doom
her end imminent


Spin a Shadorma 
Nette Onclaud
6/3/25

** Photo not my creation...

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Rest in Peace if you can Jonathan Jones
As the spirit departs your flesh and bones
For years you led a philandering life
Now lie fore'er next your embittered wife


Contest:  A Funny Epitaph
Sponsor:  Jesse Rowe
9/14/18...

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Symphony of Life

An embittered phase  
Birthing a beaten man
swapping in-between worlds
With ebbing expectations
Prompting shattering wills
A stolen life 
on a broken path
Spattered with fading faith 
Swirling nowhere
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we are in the space between

seemingly interminable horror

and grace's destiny

as we walk into abyss

i see perfection's possibilities

but patience worn down

brought upon by long lines

and I worry for the future.

so much red anger

embittered hatred....

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Tinker's wand like glitter bomb
Leaves sparkle and twinkle waste
All over the place.

Glints that arise from the deep blue sea
To ride as litter on ripple crests
Shimmering sea of fairy lights.

Jitter bug's bitter slug with glitter
Makes seascape an embittered blinding emitter....

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The silent soul
who sullenly
seeps within
the sentimental
seas of solitude.
Always lead astray
by every
passing day.
Just to remain
amongst the stars.
Striding through
time’s strangled streams
of faintly
faded dreams.
Embedded beneath
the once blue
eyed beams of an
embittered beauty....

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Likes to Dali herself up whilst reading,
assumes abstract designs will enhance
the benignly inartistic life story she's writ,
can scarcely sit through her own tediously
scripted fecklessly poetical verses moreover
embittered embellishments 'tween the blank
spaces of her once upon a failed phantasma...

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So alive,
So vibrant,you were
Until death embraced you,
Snuffing out your dreams and hopes

It has been two rains
Since your eternal sojourn.
Though I see you as if you were,
In lived memories.

I often ponder where you are.
Can you see us?
Embittered not by your crossing.
For we all have the same course....

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I am embittered now
No more excuses
The end is nearer
Than the beginning
So it doesn’t matter any more

Catch the look in my eye
The sparkle has gone 
And now the only thing to see 
Was blackness in depth

For in the end
I do please myself
The last decisions made
Will be mine alone.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Embittered winter
indignant
spreads rancor
erudite in malice.

Irreverent arbitrate
derisive
disdains masses
sardonic in verse.

Vengeful slayer
belligerent
inflicts brutality
pitiless in wrath.

Steadfast rime
unyielding
immovable blight
resolute in rage.


(click on the pic to preview my poetry book!)...

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“Like free roaming stallions - my liberated dreams.”

Apprehensive, I lay my weary head 
on the pillow of each long and restless night
embittered by pursual of revenge
till forgiveness came and spurred my demons’ flight.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 		
Contest: One and One
Sponsor: Rick Parise
© 3rd September 2016...

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Others found him cold, aloof
   a bit of a snob
He kept his own counsel
   had nary a friend
Seemed content with a life
   unengaged, to no clear end

Though his insides were churning
   through felt rejection
his embittered heart burning --
   Yet on his face not a trace
of his inner discernings
   of deep-buried yearnings...

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Memories are all I have,
Intense and suffocating.
Churned out emotions needing salves
Healed, yet unrelenting

Abject surrender to your wiles
Embittered by time
Looming reminiscence of your smiles
Sealed in my mind

Anguishing on a future lost
Grieving over what once was, 
Agonizing at what it has cost
Remembering mem'ries of a distant past...

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Long arms of tender compassion
Oneness of embittered Humanity
Visceral faith was your salvation
Encompassing all vain materialism
Lenitive of the corporal punishment 
Illuminating a hope encrypted in a
Necropolis of suppressed ideas 
Extruding life from deep darkness  
Seeping rain from saturated soil
Sedative of every entombed soul...

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I reach down, my hand brushing the soil,
The dead earth now charred and barren, decayed -
All that we have touched is now grains in my palm,
A madness that stems from a despotic rule.
Our own fervour about  almighty justice nailed.
Is a fierce rush of revenge and power.
Is this how we are meant to be?
Tyrants of the world, embittered in lunacy....

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The flame that lit my heart,
And then love, faint in death below.
Their voices no longer heard.
~ should I cry?

Yet, a brave despair has arrived.
Recurring death of trust,
Embittered. Circumscribed alone.
~ should I cry?

Tried to revive within me
The symphony of beautiful memories,
A song of an innocent soul. Failed.
~ should I cry?

...should I?...

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thoughts   completely unbidden
burst  beyond consious moments
struggling times overwhelm
threating normal dephts unhidden 

dream  like  haze
unnoticed surface sounds
completely mocking maze
deathlike ressurection abounds

where innocent despair rains
notions squalor admist pain
embittered rattling
betwixt cuddled minds 
battling bemuddled ideals     
 confusion squeals...

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I‘m embittered by isolation like Ado turned to salt
but outside, the flowers are dueling for attention.
I am mortared in this seclusion as Catullus rendered stone
yet outdoors, trees bask and frolic in the sun.
I'm locked in place, punished, like I'd smiled at Medusa
yet the squirrels go about their gatherings as birds forage.
I am gently constrained, but freedom nips at the air and invites memory....

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Bite this flesh of yellow burnish,
Suck deep of citrus and see, if
The beauty of the textured surface
Can be endured in reality.
Screwed up eyes and peeling lips,
The tremored hiss of breath, inhaled
As shudders rattle bones,
A chill, a shadow cast of death,
Yet look again, and beauty hungers,
Invites, beguiles, begs for this, unquestioned
Love devoted and purblind,
Embittered by Lucretia kiss....

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I am but I,
Not perfect,
Nor do I seek to be,
Those that once clouded my mind,
Gone.

Lessons learned,
Never to be repeated,
Often judged by the way I look, dress, walk, talk,
Belittled, embittered,
Lost

Feelings that once hurt,
Turned,
Now forgotten,
Time moves on, 
Panic, anxiety laden nightmares, fear of sleeping,
Conquered

I do not judge,
I do not mock,
I am kind, 
I do my best,
I am but I...

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