It’s excessive summer time. Which means there may be nothing fairly like a very heat day and a chilly glass of white wine. In honor of the summer time, I put collectively an inventory of ten poems about consuming. In spite of everything, John Keats as soon as mentioned, “Give me books, French wine, fruit, advantageous climate and a bit music performed outside by anyone I have no idea.”
The next are ten poems about consuming. Some poems are about wine, others deal with totally different liquors in addition to poems about non-proof drinks like Coke and Kool Assist.
Backside’s up!
Poems About Wine
As a result of nothing goes collectively fairly like poetry and wine. In spite of everything, Robert Louis Stevenson as soon as mentioned, “Wine is bottled poetry.”
The Soul of Wine by Charles Baudelaire
“One night time, from bottles, sang the soul of wine:
‘zero misfit man, I ship you in your good
Out of the glass and wax the place I’m confined,
A melody of sunshine and brotherhood!”
Learn extra right here.
Ode to Wine by Pablo Neruda
“Day-colored wine,
night-colored wine,
wine with purple ft
or wine with topaz blood…”
Learn extra right here.
Poems About Different Liquors
Consuming With a Gentleman of Leisure within the Mountains by Li Bai Translated by Arthur Cooper
We each have drunk their delivery,
the mountain flowers,
A toast, a toast, a toast,
once more one other:
I’m drunk, lengthy to sleep;
Sir, go a bit—
Deliver your lute (if you happen to like)
early tomorrow!
Learn extra right here.
A Recipe for Whiskey by Ron Butlin
Wring the Scottish rain clouds dry;
Take sleet, the driving snow, the hail;
Winter twilight; the summer time’s solar slowed down
to pearl-sheen nightfall on hillsides, city-roofs,
on lochs at midnight.
And, most of all, take the years which have already run
to mud, the mud we spill behind us…
Learn extra right here.
Strains on Ale by Edgar Allen Poe
“Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I’ll drain that cup once more.
Such hilarious visions clamber
By way of the chamber of my mind —
Quaintest ideas — queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
What care I how time advances?
I’m consuming ale as we speak.”
Selecting Up by Evelyn Duncan
“In the course of the melancholy
my mom, teetotaler,
however thrifty to a fault,
stunned my father and me
when she cobbled up a nonetheless,
stored it on a shelf behind the kitchen range,
and salvaged a crate of too-ripe pears
by making brandy, pouring it into Mason jars,
and storing them on the cellar stairs.”
Learn extra right here.
Poems About Non-Proof Drinks
As a result of you possibly can have enjoyable consuming with out alcohol.
Having a Coke With You Frank O’Hara
“is much more enjoyable than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne
or being sick to my abdomen on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona
partly as a result of in your orange shirt you appear to be a greater happier St. Sebastian”
Learn extra right here.
Right here’s a video of Frank O’Hara studying “Having a Coke With You”
Ode to Kool Assist by Marcus Jackson
“You flip the kitchen
faucet’s metallic stream
into tropical drink,
additional sugar whirlpooling
to the pitcher-bottom
like gypsum sand.”
Learn extra right here.
I style a liquor by no means brewed by Emily Dickinson
I style a liquor by no means brewed –
From Tankards scooped in Pearl –
Not all of the Frankfort Berries
Yield such an Alcohol!
Inebriate of air – am I –
And Debauchee of Dew –
Reeling – thro’ countless summer time days –
From inns of molten Blue –
When “Landlords” flip the drunken Bee
Out of the Foxglove’s door –
When Butterflies – surrender their “drams” –
I shall however drink the extra!
Until Seraphs swing their snowy Hats –
And Saints – to home windows run –
To see the little Tippler
Leaning in opposition to the – Solar!
Classic by Amy Lowell
“I’ll combine me a drink of stars,—
Giant stars with polychrome needles,
Small stars jetting maroon and crimson,
Cool, quiet, inexperienced stars.
I’ll tear them out of the sky,
And squeeze them over an previous silver cup,
And I’ll pour the chilly scorn of my Beloved into it,
In order that my drink shall be bubbled with ice.”
Learn extra right here.
Nonetheless thirsty? Right here’s an inventory of winter drinks and ebook pairings in addition to 10 nice books for booze-loving ebook nerds.
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