Traducción Inglés-Ruso para "bitter"

     bitter earth

     bitter salt

     a bitter cup

     to bitter tears

     bitter-sweet

     to cry bitter tears

Might its bitter burning have been what made me a poet?

And this is called, "Swallowing the Bitterness."

That I am someone who has drunk, drank, drunk of the bitter dregs of near-disaster in childhood and emerged not just unscathed but strengthened.