"Coffee's paradox" [linked haiku]
the bean derives from
a so-called coffee cherry
a mountain berry
coffee is urban
the Arabs developed it
migratory brew
what's dark in the cup
becomes light in the step thus
coffee's paradox
the roasting gives it
an element of burning
all things end in ash
careful prolonging
of what is not yet ashes!
both coffee and life
if roasated too dark
(some dub this the Starbucks style)
does subtlety flee?
yet I like it dark
espresso of every kind
abstracts vividly
impressionism
it's more a wine thing than a
caffeinatedness?
nicotine is the
boon companion to a cup
of sober java
without coffee's jolt
would you be but a gleam in
this city's eye friend?
coffee borrows from
tomorrow's energy-bank
a small installment
cream renders warm brown
what else is close to blackness
culture's compromise
posted by david raphael israel at 3:30 PM
2 Comments:
I am not a coffee drinker, but I like the thought in these lines
coffee borrows from
tomorrow's energy-bank
a small installment
Perhaps you follow the "neither a borrow nor a lender be" philosophy ;-)
Like the credit card, it can be overused; but such a borrowing system has its advantages. Of course the same applies to chai! Caffeine being the agent-of-borrowing. The so-called ATP cycle (of biochemical physiology) is where the transaction occurs.
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