Sorry for the late post!\u00a0 My father’s very ill, and I’ve been traveling between New York and North Carolina.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s limerick and haiku themes are wine and spirits<\/em> or the New Year\u00a0<\/em>or, if you prefer,\u00a0both. Here\u2019s my wine and spirits<\/em> limerick:\u00a0<\/p>\n The bartender offered cheap brandy. Here’s a wine snob haiku,\u00a0the first of today’s two haiku:<\/p>\n Decant, sniff, sip, spit— And here’s a haiku that combines both themes:<\/p>\n Champagne bubbles dance. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write a limerick or haiku (or both) about today’s theme(s). When you\u2019ve posted your verse, please return\u00a0here and add a direct link to your themed poetry.<\/p>\n (If you need some tips on limerick or haiku writing, I link to some helpful sites here.<\/font><\/a> And you can find my New Year’s Resolutions humor here.<\/a>)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sorry for the late post!\u00a0 My father’s very ill, and I’ve been traveling between New York and North Carolina.\u00a0 Today\u2019s limerick and haiku themes are wine and spirits or the New Year\u00a0or, if you prefer,\u00a0both. Here\u2019s my wine and spirits limerick:\u00a0 The bartender offered cheap brandy. “No fine cognac?” I whined\u2014wasn’t handy. So I had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,41,99,33,104,42,103],"tags":[2168,919,915,2092,924,918,910],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations-poetry","category-food-drink-humor","category-haiku","category-holiday-humor","category-limerick-haiku-seeds","category-limericks","category-poetry-prompts","tag-brandy-humor","tag-champagne","tag-cognac","tag-december-holidays","tag-new-years-humor","tag-wine-and-spirits","tag-wine-snobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13362,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/13362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n“No fine cognac?” I whined\u2014wasn’t handy.
\nSo I had to decline,
\nMulled and ordered dry wine—
\nTold the barkeep, “Your cab tastes like candy!”<\/p>\n
\nWine connoisseur\u2019s ritual.
\nI’d rather just drink.<\/p>\n
\nSpirited revelers toast.
\nA new year’s welcomed.<\/p>\n