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Coffee House

She pours the beans in the most graceful way

Makes one think she has a way with the coffee beans.

There is triumph in the way she stirs.

The clinking of her spoon to the glass is music

Therapeutic  to my feeble core.

No one does it better, I know.

The aroma, lacking her, is unappealing.

The sugar is unsweet if her hands not serving it.

That coffee in a bucks claiming to be a star

Is nothing to my world.

The warmth of mother's coffee is like her hands touching my soul

Yearning for a sip or a brew or a talk.

And the taste she knows not what my tongue desires

But by my heart in its brimming gratitude.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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Muzzey Avatar
June 26, 2012 at 8:14 AM
A lovely, warm write Glenn, you make want another cup, so enticing. Best wishes for the contest. I enjoyed the read~ Caryl
Andresen Avatar
June 26, 2012 at 4:10 AM
Lovely and well done for the contest Glenn, wish you luck and hope for a win for you....good!!! - oxox love Anne-Lise
Dietrich Avatar
June 25, 2012 at 9:24 PM
This is so sweet and nostalgic, loving your own mother's coffee so much. A very lovely entry for the contest.
Onclaud Avatar
June 25, 2012 at 9:59 AM
brewed to perfection, glen....a wonder of a poem.. win it !..:) huggs!
Sentes Avatar
June 25, 2012 at 7:33 PM
Thanks, Nette! Appreciated. ;)
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