Kabinet Jeroboam

Twelfth day of this year’s National Poetry Writing Month. Today’s’ prompt (optional, as always). Poets have been writing about love and wine, wine and love, since . . . well, since the time of Anacreon, a Greek poet who was rather partial to that subject matter. Anacreon developed a particular meter for his tipsy, lovey-dovey verse, but Anacreontics in English generally do away with meter-based constraints. Anacreontics might be described as a sort of high-falutin’ drinking song. So today I challenge you to write about wine-and-love. Of course, you may have no love of wine yourself, in which case you might try an anti-Anacreontic poem.

Also

I am participating in A to Z Challenge 2014 where we write 26 posts in a month each day on one word from A to Z barring Sunday's. Today's word is "K".

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Wine,

It’s simply divine,

White, purple, red or green

In all colours it holds its sheen

Long years it survives,

With age you improvise

It proves, the older

The things it gets better

Comes packed with a cork tight

Chilled is how, white is served right

Most wine

When they dine

Never to be contained

In one goblet

Best with cheese ate

Goes with it

Like bread with butter

It’s healthy either

Traveled with men since nomad

Often held in Jeroboam

As they broke in a jig

Of a symphonic poem

They took a swig

~KARAN

herebelow are my friends and co-bloggers who are also participating in NapoWrimo:

http://andiwrite.com/ – Count

http://janakinagaraj.com/ - Janaki

http://jaibalarao.com/ - Jaibala

http://whilethecoffeebrews.blogspot.in/ - Naina

http://thoughtspop.wordpress.com/ – Nithya

http://viewsofpreethib.wordpress.com/ – Preeti

http://poojashridhar.blogspot.in/ – Pooja

http://www.rinzurajan.blogspot.in/ – Rinzu

http://ponderingtwo.blogspot.in/ – Rohan

http://juztamom.blogspot.in/ - Sfurti

http://artofleo.wordpress.com/blog/ – Vinay