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Tannins Poems

Falling Down Is Easy

...I stumbled last night and today
After a year and 8 months 
It started with Chinese cooking wine
It began with the night's emptiness
Wine becomes bad days alone
Beer is weak but fills a belly
Br...

Categories: tannins, addiction, angst, betrayal, drink,
Form: Free verse

Tannins

...Extra bitter are the tannins found in this ink
My ignorance caused this heart to sink
Remembering you waving on a grassy knoll
Ice is all that covers it now just as it does my soul
To think I saw...

Categories: tannins, august, emotions, goodbye,
Form: Couplet

Wicked Game

...Late the music played in the smoky air
  in our noir Bogey and Bacall vignette,
and hands that stroked your silky chestnut hair
  held a red wine and lit a cigarette.
Your soft skin smelt of ...

Categories: tannins, love, wife,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Ecology, Humanity, Me, and Tea

...Ecology, Humanity, Me, & Tea


A fox at the altar.
Bee nests to seek before light.
A rabbit where the fox’d trot.
(Foxes have only ever trot. Perhaps fast, or nimbly, or slow - they do n...

Categories: tannins, bird, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

1985 Robert Mondavi Winery Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve

...A beautiful ride off into the sunset, and your horse 
passes through a blooming cherry orchard bordered by cedars; 
your leather saddle was rubbed with high-quality tobacco yesterday. 

It's a bi...

Categories: tannins, history, love, wine,
Form: Free verse

Reanimation

...let it breathe
reanimation for wine
too dear
to hell with tannins
drink coffee and tea...

Categories: tannins, wine,
Form: Tanka

Stranded

...A raging river tenaciously floods
Tannins and silts combine to dark blood

A hut, just fifty metres, occupying their sight
Two men, cold and wearied, stuck for the night 

An adventure all plan...

Categories: tannins, adventure, earth, nature, success,
Form: Narrative

A Glass a Day

...As the dew falls to the ground,
Sparkling bright and new as the sun rises.
The aromas of flora and life excite the senses
With the winds of early morn caressing the day.
Light and life, the livel...

Categories: tannins, day, love, nature,
Form: Free verse

Wine and Cheese

...Offended is an expensive Vintage
blended 
lacking precision 
I recommend a less sulfuric fermentation


-----------Varietals-------------

grapes of wrath
so much to offer
each glass
examine
swirl
sm...

Categories: tannins, child, giggle, girl, kid,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Brown

...Brown
June 25, 2010 at 1:11pm

This is brown…umbre,
It is shadow and that which you think you see there, 
It is a mixture of all colors, and as such, it includes and underlies everything,
It is...

Categories: tannins, color,
Form: Free verse

Cooking With Jim

...COOKING WITH JIM                      

actually, with him in spirit, in the kitchen 
of his quaint brownstone on West 12th Street
in Manhattan, decades after his death.

And quite at home with...

Categories: tannins, food,
Form: Verse

Wanting Some Nothing

...Wasn't meant to be mine...
Or yours, or his
There was none to give

Foolishly longing for what I'd never...
you'd never... we would never be
How so vibrant yet empty?
 Compassionate, heartless...

Categories: tannins, love, natural disasters, passionlonging,
Form: Free verse

Ludichka

...I love you when you're lucid
(or when your mind is going)
and even when the whiskers
of your confidence are blowing
I love it when your tannins 
filled with acid burn my mouth
and even when you...

Categories: tannins, devotion, happiness, life, loss,
Form: Quatrain