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Colors In A Coffee House

Double time hits for the ceiling — 
The clouds of white smoke, the healing

Childhood in my skin finally relaxes
Everyone around me in lapses

Coffee forms the swollen cheeks
With history's pick of bean

Water remembers
Water pushed under embers

The percolator 
Like some wound drips her.

Eyes on the preppy barista — 
Maybe we both see in similar vistas

She writes down my choice of expresso's dark
God, if ~her youth~ could start my heart.

A cup with fingers locked for style,
The young woman plays in the mud awhile.

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Daniel Henry Rodgers

Date: 8/1/2025 1:47:00 PM

Dear Paige, There’s this steady, lived through rhythm to your lines, like we’re watching memories swirl with the steam from every cup. You make the ordinary, coffee, water, old wounds, those quick barista glances just feel rich with longing and observation. I like dark roast with oat milk. Blessings, Dear Paige, Daniel

Sara Etgen-Baker

Date: 7/30/2025 5:28:00 PM

flowing rhyme scheme and I love how you captured the feel of a coffee shop...nicely done...hugs, Sara

Sotto Poet

Date: 7/30/2025 1:35:00 PM

There are so many tales to be told at coffee shops, Paige. Reading your poem was a pleasure.

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 7/30/2025 1:24:00 PM

Love this! Very nice! Those first two lines go together nicely! Love that last line too!

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 7/30/2025 8:05:00 AM

- There are many stories to be found in the coffee beans, Paige ... an entertaining poem to read today :) - hugs

Tom Woody

Date: 7/30/2025 5:33:00 AM

Drinking caramel macchiato as I read this. Relaxing with the right cuppa can be cathartic, as you hint at Paige

Paige Hind
Date: 7/30/2025 1:31:00 PM

Interesting, you two. :)

Kim Rodrigues
Date: 7/30/2025 1:28:00 PM

Today I heard of a new place (only in Arizona) called Stemistry, a flower bar & coffee lab. If I make my way to Arizona, I will have to find. I had a caramel macchiato the other day ~ cheers!