For Mona Liza....

hello sweet lemon,
did you call me a sour grape?

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

quote by Marcus Aurelius
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The sweetest grapes hang highest.

German proverbs
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The fox said the grapes were sour.

Italian proverbs
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I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.

quote by Mike Ditka
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Grapes do not grow in a willow tree.

Bulgarian proverbs
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Like grape, like bud. Like father, like son.

Corsican proverbs
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Beautiful grapes often make poor wine.

French proverbs
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Sour grapes will ne'er make sweet wine.

Latin proverbs
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From Grape To Wine

If you were to say I don’t exist
This grape would not argue

Longing to be wine
Makes me disreputable
Lowers self respect

A grape begins to become wine when it says
“Pressure is necessary to burst open”

Sweet wine flows from surrender

ROTMS

poem by Ray Lucero
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I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.

quote by David O. Selznick
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The Mother Exultant

Joy! Joy! Joy!
The hills are glad,
The valleys re-echo with merriment,
In my heart is the sound of laughter,
And my feet dance to the time of it;
Oh, little son, carried light on my shoulder,
Let us go laughing and dancing through the live days,
For this is the hour of the vintage,
When man gathereth for himself the fruits of the vineyard.

Look, little son, look:
The grapes are translucent and ripe,
They are heavy and fragrant with juice
They wait for the hands of the vintagers;

For a long time the grapes were not,

And were in the womb of the earth,

Then out of the heavens came the rain,

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poem by Adelaide Crapsey
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The grape is not ripened by the rays of the moon.

Latin proverbs
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The fox did not reach the grape, said it's unripe.

Kurdish proverbs
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He's hardly a sour grape, yet behaves like a raisin.

Arabian proverbs
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One basket of grapes does not make a vintage.

Italian proverbs
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Grapes will darken by looking a??t each other.

Turkish proverbs
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Foxes in My Vineyard

One fair even, at the eve of last summer,
In the green and fertile country fields
Where grew luscious ears of 'eschol' grapes
I lingered by the Ploughman's hedge
Held in glee as plush tendrils cloaked tall stakes
And far afield, an endless pleach of virid vines.

I sought to see the blest, plush plums
Sired by those lustful ears of vine
''Those too, ought be plummy plush'', thought i
For to strum of the grapes there borne i craved
But lo, the vines though lush, the grapes...? All gone!

I scarce could take it true
For harvest yet looms a distant far!
But who had wrought this spiteful deed,
And where had all the green grapes gone?
But soon lunged forth a fox for the brushes green
Twas meet to set my curious soul yet agrief.

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poem by Nwaga Philip
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He that grapes in the dark may fyle his fingers.

Scottish proverbs
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What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

quote by Cyril Connolly
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