Dew-laden Deck (from Faces of Love)

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jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2015-04-24 11:49 PM

Dew-laden Deck (from Faces of Love)

Coffee? You ask.

Only if you hold it
to my lips,
my insides cry,

Only if you share
my chair
in this mornings' air
while the Mockingbird sings
of mates
and other things.

Only if you kiss me
after every sip,
only until
we drop our cups,
our clothes,

Only until we're oblivious
to everything
but lips and tongues
and other things,

Only
until the Mockingbirds' song
crescendos

And breathlessly
we listen
to the beauty of his song.

Only . . .
Only then,
your coffee I'll share.

© wesley james beard, jr.
april 2015

(Please don't assume everything I write is based on my personal life...)

[This message has been edited by jwesley (04-25-2015 07:52 AM).]

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

1 posted 2015-04-25 05:12 AM

!

Not sure if an exclamation point is a proper reply or not, but that's what you're getting from me. Didn't believe anything in this world could possibly make coffee better. You proved me wrong.

Michael

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

2 posted 2015-04-25 07:33 AM

Michael - Ha! Life's blood! Coffee that is . . . world would be a much sadder place without it - especially first thing in the morning!

Thanks for looking in, my friend.

j.

EmmaRose
Senior Member

since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

3 posted 2015-04-25 07:59 AM

Gee, almost wish I'd switch over from green tea first thing, after reading this delicious thoughtful poem

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

4 posted 2015-04-25 08:30 AM

You tell 'em Jimmy
A deck, a cup of coffee and thou...
Young lovers have nothing on us (except flexibility and stamina) ~L

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

5 posted 2015-04-25 09:32 AM

And here I sit, cup of coffee to my left. I look at it. Pick it up. Sip from the solid white cup. Set it back down. Drat! You have gone and made my coffee this morning bland . . . Bland I tell you. Thanks! Thanks a lot buddy. Heh.Heh

~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

6 posted 2015-04-25 09:50 AM

Sipping my coffee - and wishing for the rest. LOL

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

7 posted 2015-04-26 01:55 AM

extraordinary inspiration, a simple question has so many answers, and you give priorities which make the poem awesome and enlight my reading, superb write
yann

devina
Member Elite

since 1999-10-28

Posts 3539
Cali

8 posted 2015-04-26 05:55 AM

This passion AND coffee? I absolutely love this J!

G-forum or I'd ask if ya'll take cream or sugar?

take care you!
~d

Open arms can be the most fragile in the world...

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

9 posted 2015-04-27 08:31 PM

enjoyed...james

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