Off the Vine
...Boredom,
the greatest vintner of pain
Aged in confusion
served with disdain
Moments gone fallow
dreams unfulfilled
Fatal perfusion
—doldrums distilled
(The New Room: May, 2022)...
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Categories:
vintner, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
The Last, Best Sips From Life's Glass
...A vintage wine’s a precious gift! We see how much remains,
can tease the tongue and ration it (and plumb life’s glass’s curves),
fermented taste that knows no bounds (like one who’s drunk on life)
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Categories:
vintner, faith, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Vineyard Is Planted
...The vineyard is planted
The grapes are growing
The Master Vintner
Is tending the vine
The grapes are growing
It won’t be too long now
With Christ in the Kingdom
We’ll taste the new wine
It wo...
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Categories:
vintner, addiction, courage, drink, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Rapscallion Raps Raptly
...Rapturousness wrought Unitarian
transformational spiritual rapport
traversing thru space/time
continuum appending increasing
chronological orbitz as an Earthling,
frivolously did cavort,
who ...
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Categories:
vintner, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
The Fog
...fog
logs
widely
slowly
on the air
on the bier
touches cat feet
hugs ram soft fleece
the ship lively move
harbor greets as grove
whistle comes in dozy
fog smoke covers noisy
a ...
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Categories:
vintner, how i feel,
Form: I do not know?
And Nothing At All
...Like wine in storage,
The cellar of my perception ages
Buried deep in its recesses
The past and future abandoned
—time no longer the vintner
Fermenting in the immediacy
Of the chosen insta...
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Categories:
vintner, age, time,
Form: Free verse
True Jihad
...'True Jihad's a holy war, a hope for 'Better World,'
And not just 'tour de force' that aims to see 'your' flag unfurled,
Not party’s bribe, or prison camp where you incarcerate
Those peaceful soul...
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Categories:
vintner, war,
Form: Rhyme
Admirable People
...alone inside with me, less than inspirational
so look out for the more interesting folk
momentary excitement, the fiery motivational
beyond the familiar, to stoke and provoke
dayd...
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Categories:
vintner, character, inspirational, life, motivation,
Form: 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:
vintner, life,
Form: Hybronnet
The Vintner
...His stock is rosy red, his nose
Blood-hound sensitive;
Cabernets, Chardonnay,
Muscadet; Bacchus of the industry!
Rolling the names around his tongue,
leaving no Chateau or wine unsung:
Cha...
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Categories:
vintner, humorous,
Form: Verse
Praxsis
...The fabric to the maker’s touch The wine flowing to the vintner ...
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Categories:
vintner, allusion, art, creation, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Of Mad Dogs
...The walker prevails without his brimmed hat,
skirting whirling dervish of hungry gnats
which seek to explore each orifice bare -
to sample the blood from here and from there,
as discerning vi...
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Categories:
vintner, analogy, anti bullying, nature,
Form: Rondeau
The Vintner
...Nebulous night dreams
Become modish grapes of wrath
Reap an austere wine...
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Categories:
vintner, fear,
Form: Haiku
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...
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Categories:
vintner, love, natural disasters, passionlonging,
Form: Free verse
The Vintners Soul.
...Strolling of my time in the old orchards rows
Amidst the falling satin whiteness of blossoms
A thousand eyes open…if only for a moment
Longing for a life on Tuscany’s vineyard steppes
Here the v...
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Categories:
vintner, happiness, nature, passion, people,
Form: Free verse
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