I am fine wine and cheese,
you cannot erase age
age erases you.
Wrinkles eventually
fold you up
and box you
in white satin
and polished mahogany.
Breathe in
each moment
without timing it.
Life is too short
to measure the size
of it's equipment.
Suffice to say
it corkscrews you
in the end
and it can be long
or rather quick.
I am a fine wine
growing better
not bitter.
A bit of an Infidel
on Zinfandel,
with a rather loud
"pardon my way"
on Chardonnay,
I am an ice wine,
a rice wine,
A much higher priced wine.
Still popping my cork
and inebriating others
with the flow
from my bottled up
essence released.
I am a matured cheese
full of the gaping holes,
of what once was
but is no more,
yet still surrounded by
the tang and sharpness
of a bite
from this moments
very best offerings.
Drink my heady
concoctions,
nibble the edges
of my sharp
softness but
let each page,
of freshly pressed thought,
and not my age
be your next taste.
Join me on the wine rack
to become vintage
and collectible,
not on the whine rack
to become crippled
and fodder for obits.
You cannot erase age
age erases you,
but a glass of wine
and some good cheese
can soften the process
into a warm blur.
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A contest entry
- Wine Connoisuers by alexandrathegreat.
1200 points, ended February 15, 2008, 14 entries
Gold trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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Lovely poem and an intelligent and imaginatice concept of time metaphors.
congrts on the gold - well deserved!
rachel
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Haha I'm corkscrewed in this contest because there are so many good entries! I love how you incorporated cheese into the wine talk. The ending is the punch line, sums it all up. Thank you so much for the play on words.
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well dear...I have a nice chilled bottle of white port that I've been dying to pop the cork off and some fruit to go with the cheese. How about you come over, kick off your shoes and sit a spell and we can discuss the future of fine wines and watch those lines melt into a wonderful blurr. You do have a way with words!
~Michelle~
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