Il vino e l'amore

A prompt was to write a poem about wine and love. I have taken it a step further and used wine as a sustained metaphor of love that is beyond repair.

 

 

Bitter Sweet

 

Bitter sweet is our love,

Stained upon our minds,

Our lips

 

Our sour grapes,

We cannot contain

 

Our shattered hearts

Cut the hands

We once held

In desperate longing

 

We stomped on our feelings,

Releasing the anguish

Ripe within us

 

We have tasted despair,

Spit out our anger

 

No more will we drink

Of this vine

 

 

Andrea Vermaak