Opulent Wine Under the Orchard Sun

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Opulent Wine Under the Orchard Sun


A duo poetry collection with @Roxanne

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le vin blanc
a refined taste,
instilling confidence,
a passionate love for luxury
and finer more sweeter things in life
planning the perfect crime
leaving no details spared
no need for napkins
for le vin blanc is the prize itself




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rosé pisin
these turbulent days deserve some rosé
a parasol on a terrace with scarlet seats
reserved for three cubes of ice
& thin hydrogen in their company,
arrived this morning by prahu
with salt still clinging to their hems,
these days are gentlemen of fortune,
brought syrah to drink their memories
in golden chalices of luck
“It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice cream sandwiches.”
- Lemony Snicket




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i’m loving this thread so far!! (and i love the collab going on) turning wine into poetry? beautiful.
these turbulent days deserve some rosé
a parasol on a terrace with scarlet seats
reserved for three cubes of ice

especially love these lines here.
it is always another hand that guides me.




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chardonnay
i prefer cafe
chardonnay
shall i visit west-bay
chardonnay
you’re my sunray
chardonnay
you make me sway
chardonnay




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I ironically had just read @Leya's "champagne" poem and then took a look at this thread - what a fun idea to do a collab around different wines! Would be fun to do a poem on drink-pairings (like cheese, chocolate, etc)

Fun rhyming in the chardonnay poem and also enjoy that both of your poetic-voices integrate together seamlessly between authors.

Nice work!
you should know i am a time traveler &
there is no season as achingly temporary as now
but i have promised to return




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there needn’t be
wine under almond trees

in gloomy times with
silver streaks in the sun
I’ll get out my window cleaner
and wipe those stains away
so we can have a moment
under the almond tree waving
all the crickets back to their place
& talk till we’re drunk on our own
laughs and chatter, there needn’t be
wine to do that for us, but I
wouldn’t mind a bottle or two.
“It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice cream sandwiches.”
- Lemony Snicket




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wine in a bottle
In collaboration with @Roxanne

Inspired by Time in a bottle


if i could save wine in a bottle
the first thing that i'd do
i’d let it slide down my throat it in a second,
unless it could preserve for ages, and ages,
until the end of the world was near -
then i would have all the answers
and wine would just be a happy cheer,
while the roofs burnt of the yellow villas,
the sun fell down on the earth & i’d
watch cerulean sky turn into melancholy
for i did it my way.




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I can't believe no one has done a collab napo thread before? at least that I know of? that is an incredible idea - I love seeing how you both build off of each other's poetic "strengths" here and how your voices intersect at times while still feeling individually like yourselves when it counts.

^ I also love how wine is used here. it naturally carries layers of meaning: sensory, emotional, spiritual, dangerous, etc. and I've been enjoying seeing how each poem is dedicated to its own drink. rosé pisin is an awesome poem -> "a parasol on a terrace with scarlet seats / reserved for three cubes of ice / & thin hydrogen in their company" <3

some really gorgeous, lush poems in here! lovely work so far!
In a shadow there is the blessing of a shadow.
— Kuki Shūzō




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pinot noir

In collaboration with @NadyaStatham

sí, señor, mushrooms
in cream sauce, roasted pork,
sweet ‘n sour duck, quack!
quack, senor?

sí, sí, we are keeping the quack,
dame un pinot noir, pronto!
snapped his fingers
and everything arrived
as quick as quack.

sí claro, we’ll pay with two clean quacks
if service truly runs that fast
& time decanted that clean.
like wine with finesse

without all this duck talk.

quack!
“It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice cream sandwiches.”
- Lemony Snicket



A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
— Oscar Wilde