Roberta Writes – D’Verse, Matamorphosis of Sorts and Tanka Tuesday #poetry

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Melissa’s prompt is “Without further ado, today we write about cycles of transformation. Anything will do, but your poem needs to have a beginning, middle, and end.” You can join in here: https://dversepoets.com/2025/03/04/metamorphosis-of-sorts/

And Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday challenge is to write a syllabic poem using synonyms for bright and create. You can join in Tanka Tuesday here: https://tankatuesday.com/2025/03/04/tankatuesday-poetry-challenge-no-2-synonyms-only-3-4-2025/. My poem is a rensaku.

Picture caption: Glass of red wine from Unsplash

Red Wine

Juicy purple grapes

Still warm from the sun soaked vines

Skins dark and shiny

Filled with anthocyanin

Perfect for making red wine

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In the winery

The stems are removed, or not

An important choice

Leaving adds astringency

But helps minimize sourness

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Sulfur dioxide

Stops bacterial spoilage

Fermentation starts

Sugar-eating yeasts consume

Fructose and make alcohol

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Stir fermenting juice

To submerge the skins – they float

Punch down floating caps

Or pump wine over the top

Do you want subtle or strong?

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After completion

Of fermentation process

Drain free running wine

And press the remaining skins

Before settling in a tank

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A little microbe

Converts malic acid to

Rich lactic acid

Tastes milky like chocolate

Or delicious Greek yogurt

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Age in wooden tank

Producing vanilla smell

Or unlined concrete

For a softening effect

Time most important factor

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Lastly comes blending

Biggest challenge of them all

Palette texture rules

Do not rely on your nose

Then, bravo, a perfect wine

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I am a writer of young adult fiction and poetry

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68 thoughts on “Roberta Writes – D’Verse, Matamorphosis of Sorts and Tanka Tuesday #poetry”

  8. Robbie, I know many friends int he wine business, and this is a perfect way to describe the making of wine: combing science, nature, instinct and passion…and to quote Virginia Madsen in “Sideways”: “and it tastes so f*@&@ing good!”

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  27. a wonderful ode to wine making, Robbie: I love a good red a few times a week; on Friday nights over shared dishes we share a carefully chosen bottle of red ; we do not skimp on price 🙂

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  32. Ah, a fellow wine appreciator! Although the photo you sourced made me flinch, spilled wine – o no! (there’s also a little humour about that photo – it’s going to splash but it’s from Unsplash – tickled my humour) Loved the descriptive poem.

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