Salute To Wine Poem by Fay Slimm

Clean sipped, clear and lovely yellow,
Amber-bright with nurtured glow.
Warming aid to winter's sorrow.
Come from many-petalled flow.
To liquid love in ferment locked,
And closeted in close embrace
With fervent act in passion rocked.
Made merry love at snail-slow pace.


Fun-filled glass with wicked bubbles
Glinting power with saintly smile.
Foretelling death to many troubles,
With wink they beckon to beguile.
Down-drunk the potion lingers long
In heady heights with careless jest,
As revellers sing their rousel song
Receiving full the wine's bequest.........