Case of Whine

Case of Whine

Properly aged

and allowed to breathe

you will produce

a fine bouquet – sweet,

slightly fruity,

silky, spicy,

a fine balance

of heady and hearty;  

but, failing that,

the results may be

more volatile:

tart, tired, acidic, bitter,

even harsh, perhaps,

 with a hollow hint of

(dare I say it?)

sour grapes.

In the end,

what you ferment

is what you decant.

PSC / 2018

Telegraphic

Telegraphic

 ARRIVING SOON STOP 

WAIT FOR ME STOP 

LOVE YOU STOP 

LOVE 

ME 

DON’T 

STOP

PSC / 2018

 

Building Cairns

PSC / 2012

Building Cairns

No one’s left

who knows the whole.

What remains are but bits & pieces –

stories retold, old Polaroids,

 mementos, and family photos 

arranged, assembled like a jigsaw

including only those morsels

we’ve chosen to recall –

a recollection of smiling souvenirs,

a portrait purged of all the painful parts

an entire lifetime condensed

into a scrapbook

of keepsakes.

PSC / 2018

I'm Not Saying

PSC / 2018

Don’t ask

who dropped these jelly beans

and scattered grassy fluff;

nor who bestrew those wrappers

from some chocolate eggs,

and peeps & stuff.

The one who frittered bunny bits

will do some piper-payin’.

And I know

just who

did these deeds,

but let’s say,

I’m not sayin’.

PSC / 2018

Let the April 2018 PAD begin!  And thanks to Robert Lee Brewer, as always, 

for providing the daily prompts (link below) to keep all his poetic peeps poeming.   

Poetic-Asides web site

March is Lion Again

photo by PSC

#seventeenineighteen

a mile in another's shoes

#seventeenineighteen

Public Domain photo:

Link to PD photo: commons.wikimedia.org - Sand Mountain Recreation Area

Nov PAD - Week #5 (remaining poems)

Robert Lee Brewer's November PAD (Poem-A-Day)

Week #5 (Days 29, 30 and also days 25 & 26)

 

NOTE: All are #seventeensyllablesfortwentyseventeen

 

 

  

And That's THAT!  I have officially made it to the end of the month. I'm DONE (and done in.)