Friday, December 11, 2015

Saturday, December 5, 2015

Poem: Fine Wine


Published in the 12/2015 issue of Chronogram Arts. Culture. Spirit.

 

Fine Wine

Wine 

should be

savored like 

a grand epic 

filtered throughout with 

barely audible hints 

of blackberry and currant, 

joined among swirls of licorice.

A dressed-up ballroom duo, noshing

creamy avocado wedges a-

top crispy crackers heaped with slices of

sharp orange cheddar from Wisconsin.

Accompanied by a sweet, good

looking Filipino man 

that croons steamy songs

to  pale, earthy girls

beneath  moon’s blush 

nightly, on

a cruise

ship. 

 

A poem that starts with one syllable per line, increases to ten syllables, and then decreases back down to one is called a  Double Etheree (or sometimes a stacked or diamond Etheree). 

The Etheree form was created by Arkansas poet Taylor Armstrong in the late 1970s. 

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