Coffee Acrostic

Good to the last drop

Caffeine induced

Obsession brings

Fuel to thought and

Fervor’s wings

Ecstasy starts in the first sip

Extending to morning its much-needed zip

Author's Note

Sometimes the need to rhyme is overwhelming!

Reviews

[Aethereal]

It seems that I'm not the only one who writes about coffee on here. Your poem inspired me to write this gift poem for you to keep as your own: Here my lines are interlaced using /0/0/0/ meter and then /0/0/ meter: It can be sung as a song:

Bad Mix

Caffeine mixed with nicotine
guides us on our way
as it tends to intervene
when we wish to stay
wakefully both calm and keen
so our thoughts don't stray
off to places so serene
that our dreams hold sway.

[Rita L. Sev]

Very nice - though I stay far away from nicotine. I am a single-addiction kind of gal. Thanks, Aethereal!

[Jack V.]

This is too damn cute! I need to remember this so that when people see me walking around the lab with my 32 oz cup of coffee, I can add in a bit of crazy and sing the words. Lol, thanks.

[Rita L. Sev]

Haha! Thanks, Jack - my colleagues and students know well my coffee obsession - this poem would not surprise them a bit!

[Samuel Dickens]

Rhymes are good--coffee is, too. I grind my own city roast Columbian beans and brew it with twice-filtered water. Obsession is right.

[Rita L. Sev]

Now THAT'S a cup of coffee! :)

[redflutterby]

Bravo.... you are the bomb!!! Ha... whoohoo!

[Rita L. Sev]

Ha! Why, thank you, Red! :)

[Frieda P]

I just did a back flip over your Coffee Acrostic ;-) Great one Rita.

[Rita L. Sev]

Ha! Thanks, Frieda! I'd say that I was exhausted now, but you are the one doing back flips!

[Frieda P]

That's cause you're the morning person ;-)

[Rita L. Sev]

;)

[David Scott]

I enjoy coffee, but I have never developed a love affair with this beverage so many others seem to know... I wonder why? I shall smile and enjoy the dicotomy of coffee's blissful taste.

[Rita L. Sev]

Ha! Well, it's probably a good thing that you do not have this addiction - more for us! :) Thanks for reading!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i am not much for form poems, feel forced usually...but you are pretty good at this particular style of poem...

i find your acrostics fun.

[Rita L. Sev]

Thank you so much, Jacob! I think of the form poems as a mental exercise - like weight lifting for the poetic grey matter. Probably why I have my students write sonnets...

[jacob erin-cilberto]

how do they do with the sonnets?

[Rita L. Sev]

Oh, it is quite a week, I can tell you! The topics can be anything (no romance for 7th graders!) but the form/rhyme/syllables must be followed. They walk around counting the syllables of everything they say - call out "does this rhyme?" And produce some good (and a few outstanding) sonnets. One girl this year wrote hers on the importance of laughter - it was impressive! At the end of the week, they get a badge for their notebook declaring "I am a sonneteer". :)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

the importance of laughter...i like that.

you sound like a great teacher who really inspires your students.

jacob

[Rita L. Sev]

Thank you for that, Jacob. I want them to think in new ways, and give each other room to do the same.