Spilled Wine
Laughter and love
Light hearted yet serious
A touch and a smile
Oops a little wine spilled
A rush and an experience
Here, take a bite
The music all around us
And yet we're alone
Laughter and love
Lighthearted yet serious
We walk hand in hand
A story untold
I'll love you forever
And ever and ever
Time stands still for us and
Oops a little wine spilled
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Categories:
wine, best friend, first love,
Form: Free verse
painting wordsPainting with words
The ash in the wood burner is still warm white and esoteric
an unborn dream a sin to shovel into a sink bucket when
it looks holy and ought to be strewn upon the tranquil sea
with the first drop of rain the ash in the bucket a dust cloud
disperse like souls in the forest but,...
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Categories:
wine, adventure, age, allegory, america,
Form: ABC
Purple luxuryThe true dawn of dreams
that lingers like twilight’s kiss.
Luxury’s revels
draped in a regal cloak’s hush.
Crowned with velvet robes
of night’s elegant embrace,
with a mind and soul
brushed in amethyst’s true grace.
A whispered silence
that softens nature’s mystique—
the sweet wine of life
savored at twilight’s last glow.
A solitude hymn
composed for an empress’s smile,
like a meadow’s grin
filling an ocean’s wide sigh....
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Categories:
wine, extended metaphor, identity, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
grapegrape juice from the vine
nectar of the gods so fine . . .
make chardonnay wine
...
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Categories:
fruit, wine,
Form: Haiku
kiwikiwi taste so fine
sweet and juicy off the vine . . .
to make superb wine
...
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Categories:
fruit, growth, wine,
Form: Haiku
Size Matters
When I think of food and drink,
it's no surprise
the question does arise,
with booze some choose to let it breathe
and defer their bottle of wine,
I prefer to savour the flavour
and give mouth to mouth to mine.
(Que Syrah, Syrah!)
Some say, “The glass is half full,”
with accent on the positive,
some see the glass half empty,
and focus on the...
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Categories:
drink, humor, humorous, wine,
Form: Rhyme
choose a line poetry contestWith an unfamiliar phrase, she reassured me.
the fact that clouds are always passing,
Additionally, the burden we are currently bearing
No difference will be made as the night becomes glassy.
We sat there with our legs crossed on the old grass,
Using silence as a form of communication.
The world slowed down, the atmosphere was pleasant,
A little cool and a...
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Categories:
wine, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
ALWAYS MEANT TO BEALWAYS MEANT TO BE
PANDA MAZEE
STO GRAFIO MOU THOULEVA,
I was busy working
TO TELEFONO HITPISE,
When the telephone began ringing
KAPOS EEXERA ESOONA ESEE,
The presence of you was strong,
KE AKOUSA TI THEE KYASOU FONEE,
I wasn’t wrong,
HRONIA THEN MEELEESAME,
For years we have been apart
TIN AGAPI MAS KRYPSAME,
Hiding our love which was
There from the start
EE KARTHYA MOU HTIPOUSE,
My...
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Categories:
wine, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Superior Tastedo I offend you with my truth
sorry no apologies will be giving
this is my truth that I'm living
spoken this way since my youth
the cork was slightly wedged
speaking with my proud voice
selective words of my choice
no circle have I ever pledged
they say wine needs to age
my truth have a bitter taste
reformulated without haste
process caused a bit...
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Categories:
wine, humor, poems, voice,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
On LandingsI shan’t think a landing is sound
That leaves both a ditch and a mound.
A plane should align,
Like steak with good wine,
To kiss, not to crush, with the ground.
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Categories:
wine, crush, drink, flying, food,
Form: Limerick
Callimachus English Translations IICallimachus English translations
For Gail White
To the Cup-Bearer
by Callimachus
translation by Michael R. Burch
Decant the wine then toast "To Diokles!" Nor does the beautiful boy Achelous touch his hallowed ladlefuls. So beautiful the boy, Achelous, passing beautiful, and if any disagree, let me alone comprehend real beauty.
Pitiless ship, having borne away my life’s sole light,
I beseech you...
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Categories:
wine, beautiful, boy, death, flower,
Form: Free verse
Chinese Poets: English Translations IVThe Song of Magpies
by Lady Ho
translation by Michael R. Burch
The magpies nest on the Southern hill.
You set your nets on the Northern hill.
The magpies escape, soar free.
What good are your nets?
When magpies fly free, in pairs,
why should they envy phoenixes?
Although I’m a lowly woman,
why should I envy the Duke of Sung?
A Song of White Hair
by...
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Categories:
heart, love, wife, wine,
Form: Free verse
Dionysus, Demeter and ZeusMy friends, it is a dismal thing
At such an hour to pound and ring!
Let others shiver if they must,
I shall not greet a sky of rust!
Let first the air be half so warm
As in this covered nest I form.
And then, perhaps, if need of it,
I’ll lift an eye, and half-way sit.
Forever slept, thou fiendish, foul-formed...
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Categories:
wine, conflict, dark, earth, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Wine WeatherCataclysm, disaster!
Calamity, come!
Fate of mankind, I, master!
Doom and Death, thy drum...
Gore upon the altar?
Somebody needs to go.
Nerves within, do not falter!
Cease, heartbeat, post slow.
Tunnel subterranean?
What in there was planned?
Hell and Heaven, sane again?
Orders countermand!
Yellow skies in harpsichord?
Fall not on thy sword!
Every matador not gored!
That's who holds the fjord!
Volcano, thy lava red;
What feeds on the dead?
Questions...
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Categories:
wine, computer,
Form: Rhyme
Wine Tastes Better AgedFlourished and nourished,
hair locks resembling branches,
I gaze as it dances —
when blowing, he looks glowing.
Twenty years had passed,
but still, I last.
I may have ripened,
but I'm still the same berry, same fruit,
slightly fragmented, a little indented,
not demented.
You got a sample of me when I was at my prime,
taught a few tricks — oh, to replay our...
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Categories:
wine, age, confidence, desire, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Wine Poems
Definition | What is Wine in Poetry?
Poems Related to Wine
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