21 October 2013

Harvest





Straight lines
of stripped vines
pattern the hillside.
Leaves in fall colors,
all that's left after harvest,
fields bereft. Workers
make wine to last.


For Open Link Monday at Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads. Inspired what's happening in my little corner of the world and by Kerry's excellent post of Saturday on Tanka.

20 comments:

  1. "all that's left after harvest,
    fields bereft."... beautiful!

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    1. They look that way after being laden with grapes.

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  2. Very nice, and the lines and contours in the second picture really grabbed me. :-)

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    1. It was the coolest wine cellar of an old wine family. The bottles are lined up by year and type and the grandmother puts lables on each one as they're sold. The room mirrored the contours of the bottles.

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  3. Italian wine .. nectar for the gods. I enjoyed this.

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    1. It is. Each region of Italy has its own grape variety and local wine made from them. In our region we grow Montepulciano D'Abruzzo for the wine of the same name. Delicious.

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  4. 31 syllables - a different use of lines, but I am not so sure that matters. I like "fields bereft"... that is a great image, after they have been plucked.

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    1. The vines were so heavy with grapes and now seem so bare.

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  5. It will last until I drink it. :) I like how you've showed the lines of the vines and the wine.

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    1. Something there is that doesn't like the impermenance, that wants to make it stay. And if wine is how we make grapes last, lovely.

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  6. and wine that will carry them through the long dark night until the next....
    it is a cycle they know well...smiles.

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    1. Wine with meals, family and friends is prized in our area.

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  7. Sounds lovely and in the case if the poem, literally. Thanks, Mary. This is Karin of manicddaily on Wordpress. K.

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    1. Thanks, Karin, it's a lovely time of year here.

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  8. Great link of words to pictures - love the sweeping curves of those cellar ceilings....

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  9. At least something VERY positive remains. Smiles.

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