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Bastet
Member

since 2010-05-07

Posts 246

0 posted 2011-02-20 04:27 AM

VANILLA LATTE

Opaque and creamy sweet
that spirit world I long for,
a rare treat not close at hand
but never bitter with the taste
of disappointment.

I listen to the babble around me,
snatches of thought, stray grains
of sugar-dreams, conversations
half-finished, dissolved in a rush
of pressured steam.

Often the spirits are silent,
their presence concentrated
on a book or a screen.
I sip and imagine what they see,
a world distant and delicious,
conflict’s acid flavor smoothed
by a milky peace.

Once I met a musician there,
cello balanced on her chair,
a poet of notes and measures,
rhythmic idioms the punctuation
of her speech.

Melodies and metaphors
are life’s vanilla lattes,
all the mellower
for being so rare.

katahdin
Senior Member

since 2010-07-01

Posts 1196
ME. In the Shadow of the Mt.

1 posted 2011-02-20 04:35 AM

Just beautiful!
Kat >^..^<

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

2 posted 2011-02-20 04:36 AM

Oh, my goodness! How did you get SO much beauty of every kind into one tiny poem? I have already read this twice and sank deep down into it. This is a keeper of keepers.

Owl

easy1
Senior Member

since 2010-05-22

Posts 1209
Southeastern USA

3 posted 2011-02-20 09:55 AM

Like a favorite café brulé, well-balanced and welcome. However, there are premonitory rumblings here...

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

4 posted 2011-02-20 11:53 AM

Wow! I can taste this one, Bastet. Soooo
good.
Ida

faithmairee
Senior Member

since 2011-01-05

Posts 1441
Poe Haven, USA

5 posted 2011-02-20 11:56 AM

beautiful...your ending was excellent...great poem

There must be a poem in here somewhere.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

6 posted 2011-02-20 12:58 PM

That musician's name wouldn't have been Christine, would it have?

~ Life is sexually transmitted ~

Nareena
Member

since 2011-02-17

Posts 51
BC, Canada

7 posted 2011-02-20 11:10 PM

This took me to my favourite coffee shop

I think maybe I need to go there this week... thanks for the read

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

8 posted 2011-02-21 01:15 AM

Yum - you poem whets my appetite to write. See, you inspired me.

A

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

9 posted 2011-02-21 02:58 AM

Deliciously written Bastet
Some wonderful images for the reader to ponder.

Eric

in a relationship the me becomes we.

Bastet
Member

since 2010-05-07

Posts 246

10 posted 2011-02-21 03:13 AM

Thank you so much, everyone, for your kind and encouraging comments.

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