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Old Wine

Old Wine. Wine dark as night sea, a bottle at ease in a cellar On a shelf with a rusty key, gathering dust of time. Hundred years gone when stillness is disturbed, Auction, the rich can buy this wine but not drink it, The spell will be broken and its value worthless. The rich admire the bottle it gives them status but They drink young wine and marry a trophy wife. When time is near, they stagger down to the cellar But have not the force to uncork the bottle that Could have made their life a journey of love.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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Date: 12/7/2012 10:13:00 AM
very perceptive and well-written!
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Jan Oskar Hansen
Date: 12/7/2012 1:16:00 PM
iLene I began writing about wine, but as I was writing it change and became something else
Date: 12/7/2012 7:37:00 AM
Dear Jan - like a cellarful of embryos too perfect to be born. too fragile to be enjoyed. Your words shine. But there is nothing wrong at all with a nice new bottle of wine. love, Kathy
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Jan Oskar Hansen
Date: 12/7/2012 1:17:00 PM
darling kathy you got it in one

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