Short Cafe Poems

Short Cafe Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Cafe by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Cafe by length and keyword.


Premium Member All Night Cafe

The comfort of lights
Streaked across cafe Windows.
Noise like a blanket.
Cocooned by cacophony,
Refugee from loneliness.
Form: Tanka


Cafe

There was a young thing from Peking
Who opened a cafe on a whim
She cooked up a stew
Hadn't a clue
Didn't know where to begin
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Cafe Tanka POTW

under the teal night
at shared table we sit close
passersby unseen
your fingertips on my tea
a new masterpiece unfurls
© JC Brul  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Giraffes in the Cafe

We recently went to the zoo,
sadly there were animals few.
Until we all saw,
which caused an uproar,
giraffes in the café shop queue.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Tomcat's invitation

Meet me I'll be waiting
Rendezvous at Black Cat Cafe in Paris
~ I'll wear my red beret



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention  2025
Form: Other


Premium Member Midnight Cafe

Thick as deep summer night, lush and moon dripped
Wine sipped with dark delight
Banter rouses whimsey’s kite 
Amorous thoughts taking flight
© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Englyn

Cafe De La Paix

My fate to be a watcher…
“Regarder Les Autres”
and write from alleys dark but real,
salons for words ill-bred 

(Le Grande Hotel Paris: May, 1978)

Premium Member Cafe Ole

Café olé, did I hear someone say Sounds latin to me, like olé José As a baseball fan It's part of the plan Back in the 50's it was Mickey's big day
Form: Limerick

Cafe Racers

slow it down
pull it up
boldly rival
wind whipped 
leather wrapped
beetle bright
coiled spring
chromed out 
in your face
visors down
rev it up
Go!
Go!
Go!
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Premium Member Cafe Footle

gold light
warm night

teal sky
stars shy

soft chair
you there

warm glow
love slow

eyes meet
time sweet

hands near
stay there

coffee
or me?
© JC Brul  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Footle

Premium Member Cafe au lait

In awe of this winter morning sunrise ~
Thoughts of french alps cross my mind.
I reach for my café au lait.
Breathe in and enjoy serenity.



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Premium Member Cafe' Dream

Vanilla, hazelnut cream
Perfect hot or icy cold
Sugary sweet bitterness
Or maybe just expresso
Floating in a river swirl
A smile glistens on your lips
The perfect cure for ‘sleepy’

Premium Member Thththe Oughts Cafe'

sitting...contemplating...
ththth...(uh!)...oughts...
oh-pen...nothings!?...

thth...uh...ink...

clause marks...
thuh-oughts on...
a pay-per...cofcofcof-fee...cup...


stan sand
© Sand Blown  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Summertime Cafe

uptown jersey cow
sitting up at dairy bar
sips skinny latte



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Submitted on Mach 13, 2025 to contest YOUR CHOICE A POETRY sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - RANKED 5TH

El Taza De Cafe

El premier es en Espanol



Mi cafe es restrictado.
al tazo que bebiendo
es caliente

Although I love my coffee,
mi medico llamare que yo se muerto,
si yo  no terninar,

Entonces, 
Mi cate es muy importante!

Cafe'

The road inside the house,
Ready to spell the book,
Leaning against the brick,
Humble as he took.
Praises the people made,
Of the prince of the ward,
Hatred formed inside his heart,
Plowing the craze from the pen to the sword.

Cafe Retrospective

simultaneous                                                                                                         contrasts earthy perspective                                                                                  accents past pale mists
© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

The Cafe

THE    CAFÉ  



Another cup of tea  -
The corner offers some protection 
Rainclouds rush the parting day to a close
And two lovers stroll in whispering, 
Giggling and throwing off drops
After hectic sunlit trips to nowhere
  - Evening is my only friend

Premium Member Vincent Van Gogh: Cafe Terrace At Night

from beyond his
vibrant palette
that bore all his 
lifelong scars

is what I see
beneath his sky
and myriad
of stars

a scene of shades
and silhouettes
formed by the
yellow light

that hints at
The Last Supper
at that café 
in the night?
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium Member Cafe' Stationary

Down beat
Delete

Mistrust
All bust

Mesquite
Mincemeat

Charge sheet
Complete

Red heat
Concrete

Timesheet
to-beat 

Upbeat
Un sweet

puffed wheat 
dutch treat

off beat
spreadsheet ?

8/13/18
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018
Form: Footle

Premium Member At Dandee Donuts Cafe

Dandee Donuts was Dan's small café.
I served donuts and meals for small pay,
wore a stupid hair net
and what small tips I'd get
growing fat on free donuts each day!


For Carolyn Devonshire's
Single Limerick Contest: Horrible Bosses (and more) Poetry Contest
Form: Limerick

Cafe Creatures

from her handbag
she took some
prescription pills
while some frustrated
sexual fantasy
crawled up the ladder
in her silk stockings
and began sucking
at her ********
as she sipped
on her coffee
and speared the final
remains of the stale
chocolate cream cake
© Harry Rout  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Paris Cafe

lavender umbrellas
floral teacups
fancy china plates 
muffled conversations
dainty berry scones
crisp white doilies
shy looks 
wedge of brie
cucumber sandwiches
tiny titters 
chocolate truffles
crisp linen tablecloths 
caramel lattes
fragrance of the gods
Paris Cafe
Form: List

Premium Member My private haven

i found the perfect little table
in the perfect cozy corner
in the perfect quirky bistro
in the perfect part of town

as i head out on my merry way
they may as well cordon off the area
'cause when i get there ~ god help
anyone who may be sitting in that spot



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

La Cafe De Les Miserables

I see my reflection staring back
From an empty cup of coffee, black.
And new lines that I have never seen
Have made an older man of me.
Typists and calligraphers alike, like me
Come here to decipher the human psyche
And through and through all of us fail
And eat plain biscotti with coffee, stale.
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