Sonnet Wine Poems

I am now "away from the noise,"  
my fruit gum I am chewing.  
Sitting here wondering what the boys,  
could be doing.  

 
 
Now all unpacked,  
a book I...

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My many many thoughts linger, 
in the dusting of the springtime, 
I turn pages with my finger, 
I love to read each loving rhyme. 

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Spring is the time to venture out and play
the pretty flowers are wearing the bees
maybe it is bright and sunny all day
early morning may come...

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The wine of poetry's a potent brew
Best not imbibed in drafts but smaller sips
So flavors linger longer on the lips
And meanings have more time to...

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If ever there was a tale of such woe,
  a tale of music, lust, and revelry!
Of Juliet and I, her Romeo,
  when the...

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The old rusty gate                                         ...

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‘Do you think you can make demands of us?  
Chance said ‘Why continue with all this fuss?
No worries pet you can keep him for...

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Listen to my dream; we should stab some wine,
this made me think of raw nectar from bees. 
One taste of you will expand my divine,...

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Purple and red of a very rare sunset flowing up - 
Are the colours of the Cremisan wine where Christ did die, 
That the rays...

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Why I am me,                                           ...

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What hurt filled words did you convey,                              What in the world...

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O Grappa, goddess dregs of corpus grapes,
Distillate "digsetivo", whole must press,
Fond draught that spirits my carnal escape
From temperate gods, religions of less. 
Your cruel "corretto"...

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WINEPRESS OF LOVE

Winepress of love,
The grapes are glowingly grown
Stressed-out by winemakers
Deprived of springs and raindrops
But under abundance of sunshine
Paraded like in beauty pageant
And as a...

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Modern Appetite
by Michael R. Burch

"Women, wine, song ..."

It grumbled low, insisting it would feast
on blood and flesh, etcetera, at least
three times a day. With soft...

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A Glass of Wine

In a box, 
a cake is hidden. 
I opened it slowly, 
and looked inside. 
All I found…
was a bag, 
and dust. 

Add...

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