Six Short Poems About Wine

These poems were written by Jack Keller, author and webmaster of The Winemaking Home Page, and
published in Short Stuff, Volume I, Issue 5, September 2002, an on-line journal of short-form poetry.

These six poems are each four lines long and reflect the author's love of wine and winemaking.
They are closer to Haiku than traditional Western poetry in that they do not rhyme, but are not
of the 17-syllable Haiku style. Hopefully, they will sing to you anyway.

Six Short Poems
About Wine
by Jack Keller, Jr.

I
Yeast in honey
brings the mead
to life beyond
the clovered fields

II
Dandelion petals
orange peel and yeast
trap sunshine in water
as golden wine

III
Juicy grapes
with sugars laden
ripe for wine
a feast for birds

IV
In shadows now
the vineyard sleeps
on morrow comes
the harvest

V
I crush the grapes
with purple feet
and wine flows
from their sorrow

VI
I raise my glass
to ideas lost
on foggy nights
when no one listened

This page was created September 12th, 2002.