Three Coffee Shop Poems

COFFEE AND ZEN

I like Coffee Shops

Where I can be alone but not alone,

Where the music is right

So I can listen or not listen;

Places where I can sit and be there

Or drift far away,

Drink and look around,

Spoon the froth from my Cappuccino

Until the worry lifts from my mind,

And in the Coffee Shop

I find a still point

………….. 

Cappuccino froth

Sugar sinks slowly away

Noise in coffee shop

……………….

Reflections of ivory and pale silk

Among the books, warm black wool

Embracing a pale ghost of Scandinavia

Ripples of mercury on the glass

Sipping coffee reflections flow together

Lost; the moment you were real again.

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