Poets have been writing about love and wine, wine and love, since the time of Anacreon, a Greek poet who was rather partial to that subject matter. Anacreontics might be described as a sort of high-falutin’ drinking song. So, today our prompt was to write about wine-and-love.
Strawberry Hill Forever
So take we rum and take we Coke
and sippy-straws so we don’t choke
on ice and limes within our glasses
and fall dead on our tipsy asses.
Let us to Elysian fields
take our drinks and also meals:
cheese and grapes and shepherd’s pie,
potato chips and ham on rye.
Let us frolic in the lee
without your kids—just you and me.
Spread a blanket and have some fun.
Show ourselves to the morning sun.
If perchance you’d prefer wine,
well, you take yours and I’ll take mine.
I’ve chosen well. I think I will
take some Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill
found in a box of college things:
pennants, books and old class rings.
This dinosaur, screw top intact,
we must imbibe, it is a fact,
to stir libidos and memory
so I might take thee on my knee,
cop a feel of thy lovely ass
and roll thee in the green green grass.
Afterwards, we’ll fill our lips
with sandwiches and pie and chips.
No satyr dined on lovelier fare.
No nymph tasted food more rare.
And when the sun falls in the west,
we’ll cork our wine, pack up our chest
and hurry home. We can’t be late.
Your husband’s getting home at eight.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
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Oh, that ending! I loved your tongue-in-cheek satire, but had to wonder–did you get experience in this fine art by going to the end-of-the-year teacher parties?
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Funny, I don’t remember end-of-the-year teacher parties. We just sorta partied all year long. The poem, however, is entirely fictional–even written from the male pt. of view. Funny about those endings. I never know how a poem or story is going to end until I’m writing the ending. Are you the same way?
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Of course you do not remember the end-of-the-year-teacher parties. Tony and I could never even remember how we got home. Do I know how my fiction is going to end? Well, I generally have an ending in mind, but there are changes, always, as a character yanks at me. Of course I understood that the above very funny poem is narrated by a male: the last line makes it quite clear. Your sense of rhyme/rhythm is a wonderful thing!
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I do remember the bad taste party Patti and I threw. I have a picture of you and Tony as well as Tony and Mary Cartwright. You wore plaid. Mary wore a fur stole complete with tail and head. We served Bali Hai and sardines on a table covered by oilcloth. On the upnote, Patti was serving her gringo tacos and more edible fare in the next room.
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