My husband's poetry

Category: coffee/tea

  • rainy day coffee

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    cfblack
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    Wet tires hiss in street Light rain drums window Coffee shop voyeur – notebook in hand Couples talk in low voices Groups laugh, cajole, share stories While devotees pray at laptop altars They read posts about exhibits in museums Curated, static moments Locked in fabric, stone and paint Posed and moved from room to room…

  • The quietude of wet

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    3 am, dishes washed clothes in dryer butter in coffee come sit and watch night from my porch smell the wet of moldy leaves damp soil and warm coffee the frost of autumn comes late in the South and that’s okay light rain drips – sparkles in trees asphalt can’t suppress crushed stone’s glisten only…

  • Waiting

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    in the dusk before dawn fog halos street lights water drips from trees two students wait on corner for the school bus to come I wait for a friend to stop by for coffee rain waits for no one 10-29-19

  • FaceBook Columbia

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    Stop by sit and watch the leaves turn golden before they fall to ground Call ahead I will make fresh coffee we’ll discuss life and the issues of the day No one will troll us grinding their ax with regurgitated conspiracies no one can hack us we’ll talk quietly and try to understand Just you…

  • Burning soul

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    Chilly Saturday morning stale coffee warms in microwave Last night you watched a poet self-immolate on stage Heard words crackling in the fire smelled flesh sizzling like bacon You sat transfixed until nothing but ash remained on stage And still you wanted more part of you want to hug her Part you wanted to flee…

  • Coffee

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    Coffee drips slow in pot Coffee rich and brown Coffee fragrant on tongue Coffee from yesterday beeps in microwave Coffee on cold morning’s in Mom’s kitchen Coffee at Grandpa’s table with sorghum on crackers Coffee spills on your shirt rushing to work Coffee stains on book covers Coffee late night study buzz Coffee the rattle…

  • Coffee

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    cfblack
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    Coffee drips slow in pot Coffee rich and brown Coffee fragrant on tongue Coffee from yesterday beeps in microwave Coffee on cold mornings in Mom’s kitchen Coffee at Grandpa’s table with sorghum on crackers Coffee spills on your shirt rushing to work Coffee stains on book covers Coffee late night study buzz Coffee the rattle…