The #tankatuesday challenge has baffled me for a while this week. Love poems not my thing! But, using the offered image as inspiration over at Wordcraft I began to see wine …… not a beautiful red rose! So, a rose inspired haiku about a very famous wine:

Have you ever wondered why roses are planted at the end of rows of vines in a vineyard? They act as an early warning system for signs of mildew, a nasty blight ruining the grape harvest. Maybe you’d like my book, It’s Not About The Wine.

Categories: Haiku

Tags: Chateauneuf du Pape, Haiku, poem, Poetry, red rose, Senryu, syllabic, tankatuesday, Wine, wine blogging, wine lovers