COFFEE, YOUR HISTORY

One more ode on a favorite topic.

Dark redeemer
    carrying legends of Sumatra, Arabia, Columbia

Creator of cultures
     fuel for a Sufi’s whirling dance
     drink of protests by patriots
     in the days of revolution
     drunk in heroic proportions
     by Balzac and Beats
     made mad by your power

Drunk black
     by my father
     on the troop ship
     far side of the Pacific
     World War Two
     because green skin of slime congealed
     on tins of curdled cream

The history
    of why I drink you as a I do.

Reviews

[Kelly A. Brown]

As a coffee lover (especially of black coffee), I really enjoyed reading this poem! :)

[Michael G. Smith]

Interesting piece. My wife's father grows coffee on his farm in Dominican Republic and also cocoa which I find more enjoyable of the two.

[Aethereal]

Ah, another coffee poem on Writer’s Café. Where else, but here! I wrote one of my own coffee poems a few weeks ago. I enjoyed how you showed the social commonality of coffee which is somewhat like that of tea and cigarettes. I wonder who wrote the first coffee poem on this site?

[rutherford]

Aethereal and all,
Will take a look. Maybe we band our works together to publish a coffee anthology?

Meanwhile, one last simple minded coffee elegy that could be set to a fast moving pop beat

Coffee at the table.
Coffee if you're able
Coffee in the pot
you know it's nice and hot

Coffee in your cup
Coffee for you pup!

Chorus: Coffee, coffee, coffee

Coffee over ice
Coffee if you're nice
Don't be shy, you know you want to try!

Repeat chorus

[Aethereal]

I enjoyed the rhyme in this song: I'l add a short one of my own:

Fly

Coffee hot or iced
either plain of spiced;
If ya wanna fly,
give 'em all a try.

[rutherford]

Thumbs up, thumbs up

[jacob erin-cilberto]

hate coffee, but this poem is beautiful....i have a taste for it, for sure.

wonderfully clever in its metaphor.

[Rita L. Sev]

I like the universal beginning, moved on to the personal relationship to the coffee bean. So much to be said about this robust nectar... :)

[Pryde Foltz]

Is it weird that I like to read coffee poems the same way other people like love poems? You don't have to tell me; I know it is. Kidding a side, this was well-constructed piece with a lovely little window into your past and your heart. I really liked this one.

[Rita L. Sev]

Hey Pryde, guess what? I prefer coffee poems to love poems, too. Surprise! :)

[Pryde Foltz]

Not at all. Not at all.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i like a little love in my coffee. well i would if i drank coffee.

[rutherford]

Dear all,
Maybe we band our works together to publish a coffee anthology?

Meanwhile, one last simple minded coffee elegy that could be set to a fast moving pop beat

Coffee at the table.
Coffee if you're able
Coffee in the pot
you know it's nice and hot

Coffee in your cup
Coffee for you pup!

Chorus: Coffee, coffee, coffee

Coffee over ice
Coffee if you're nice
Don't be shy, you know you want to try!

Repeat chorus

[Pryde Foltz]

Awesome!!!!!!!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

that is an idea that percolates.

[Rita L. Sev]

:) Love it!

[Tam Warink]

A meaningful memoir, related by one that pens a considerate inheritance. What is the shelf life of such legacies?