An Uncertain History of Champagne
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Just how champagne came to be
opinions vary and there are many.
The French insist it was no mistake
like all great art they highly rate;
indeed, a felicitous coupling
of skill and savoir f...
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Categories:
fermentation, history,
Form: Didactic
Father's Memorial day
...The world has indeed been forgetting me
Forgetting me cruelly
As waste that neither grow nor breathe
It is a fermentation of anger and despair
As Despairing as it struggles with anger
At th...
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Categories:
fermentation, appreciation, blessing, father, father
Form: Free verse
GenieUsGenusPlan
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In the darkness of the night,
a ruby gleams
to contrast a slumbered eye awakened
to feeling,
reflection, light,
Lady "Genie", eyes aglow
like a beast, in mid-stride,
lost in her mid...
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Categories:
fermentation, april, art, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels
...Self-Portrait 1-12-24
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Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels
Still life, not stillborn,
With a woman’s face
In dus...
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Categories:
fermentation, birth, fruit, life, woman,
Form: Ekphrasis
Bearing Fruit
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In the darkest depths of the ancient grove
of ancient Ede.
Gnarled branches reach for the light
in confession plead-co...
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Categories:
fermentation, art,
Form: Free verse
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Much Ado About Poi
...Welcome to a typical 'Luau' spread. The first thing that is best to learn is the Hawaiian word, 'ono', which means, delicious. It's a word bandied about before and after food goes in your mou...
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Categories:
fermentation, allusion, analogy, appreciation, culture,
Form: Narrative
EarWorm
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Mind Bound to form,
expressioning itself in expose,
Borne of fatal attraction and Hell,
candied fermentation fomented
from randeed runon s...
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Categories:
fermentation, art, body,
Form: Other
The Vineyard In the Desert Heat
...Three hundred and eighty-eight acres of it runs across the desert land and a thousand peasants kneel in the ground gathering moisture in their hand to solidify the land. Hundreds of them partitioned ...
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Categories:
fermentation, confidence, courage, health, inspirational
Form: Narrative
Millennium
...Astral Backlash, Cosmic Dimension, Environmental Fermentation Gradual, History, incidental Jubilation, Kinetic Labryinth, Military Negation, Optomistic Pessimism, Quaint Radical Skeptimism, Toxic Uto...
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Categories:
fermentation, words,
Form: ABC
Stuck In a Pub
...This privilege of the spirits I drink
That came from a stilling thought
A blend of potatoes and corn
With the steaming of fermentation
A white lighting with a clean taste
Smooth when I blew an...
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Categories:
fermentation, drink,
Form: Rhyme
It's a Pickle Party
...The Dill, of course, are here now, but I fear
the Sour will be coming in about an hour.
They’ll arrive with relatives – those Half Sour.
Pickles straight from India have come. One’s Lime.
The o...
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Categories:
fermentation, food,
Form: Rhyme
His Death Our Life
...His death opened a direct channel
to heaven. His life, a journey
of faith; His Source, the Light
of a Universe, greater than the
sum of all stars –
His message, one of redemption...
of cons...
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Categories:
fermentation, christian, easter, evil, faith,
Form: Free verse
Inhalator
...I was having a long spell of constipation,
my stomach forgot what’s called motion.
It got busy with lazy fermentation bout,
and chose its own way to let the gas out.
One morn I took the lift do...
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Categories:
fermentation, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Pain and Love
...A surreal vision
dreamlike and bizarre.
I felt as if I were in the throes
of a turbulent blazing blizzard,
a throbbing pulsating migraine
almost static in fermentation.
It g...
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Categories:
fermentation, love, pain,
Form: Free verse
It's a Wrap
...beyond what we know is the realm of wrapping
can be no time, can be no space
just stuff, bits and pieces, much coming and going
the much going and coming base
as something wraps up emptin...
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Categories:
fermentation, analogy, birth, change, clothes,
Form: Verse
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