Two Guys
...It’s a fine summer’s evening
for your annual wine tasting shindig;
home-grown fruits in home-made fermentations.
We stay up half the night
washing down the terrible wine with weak beer
doing wha...
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Categories:
fermentations, community, grief, loss, strength,
Form: Narrative
Lines Written In Albany
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On white lines on valiant wheels
I head north leaving behind the City of Sails
with its humourless streets,
its casino steel and glass Sky Tower
built upon the rubble of a gran...
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Categories:
fermentations, how i feel, places,
Form: Free verse
My Foolish Heart
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It innocently started with that libation:
that tingling, inebrious, joyful sensation.
My foolish heart acquiesced to the temptation.
An allergy or a genetic mutation
awakened my foolish...
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Categories:
fermentations, addiction, heart,
Form: Monorhyme
Desire Breeds Suffering
...Craving is an arrow in the heart,
the poison of ignorance;
that spreads its toxins through desire, passion and illwill.
Bound with the bondage of craving,
our minds smitten with suffering
we are...
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Categories:
fermentations, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Before the After
...a fragment of before
prehistory rhetorical relic
some long ago thought
where imagination blooms
as reality withers
not quite dead
our dreams
become fermentations
something to sip
when it ...
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Categories:
fermentations, dream, future, nostalgia, time,
Form: Free verse
Vineyard's Lifecycle
...We've grown from the same root
We stick together
like a grape bunch.
Until a final decision is made
Stay in our bunch and enjoy our company.
Grow older, you can become finer
A Chard...
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Categories:
fermentations, life,
Form: Hybronnet
Bacchus
...Bacchus
God of wine twice born
Bacchus son of thunderbolt...
two fermentations
God of wine twice born
Bacchus son of thunderbolt...
from grape to happy
God of wine twice born
Bacchus son of thunder...
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Categories:
fermentations, wine,
Form: Haiku