Official word came down yesterday: I’ll be your hostess with the mostest while the rest of The Girls are doing their Thang at conference. Mayhem will be the rule of the day. mark your calendars, folks. I’ve got plans
On to today’s post:

I can’t do haikus, but I can write “pomes” (misspelt intentionally…these don’t count as ‘poems’!) about those things I’m most enamored with. In this case, the jet fuel of most writers: Coffee. (Some of us also drink tea, and some of us prefer it. Maybe next week I’ll do an ode to Tea.)

My favorite mug with the chip in the handle,
The glaze worn through on one side.
A cupboard full of others that can’t hold a candle
To the one in my still-shaking hands.

Steam curls upward from the cream and sugar treasure
comforting as a velvet-covered bed.
The first sip is heaven, unadulterated pleasure
Clearing the sleep-induced cobwebs from my head.

Prepared now for the tongue-burning temperature
The second ’sip’ is more of a gulp
My body tingles with some low-level amperature
A system-wide shock called ‘awake’.

Alert and prepared for anything,
My hands have stopped their shaking,
Hold me back, I’m prepared for the day.

Sitting at the desktop, the cursor sits there blinking
Taunting me to find something to say.
It has no way of knowing my third cup I am drinking
So fashioning sentences is quite easy.

Halfway through the cup I start getting dismal
the coffee is lukewarm
My rhyme and meter turns abysmal,
I chug the last few gulps down.

Hands no longer shaking
my brain is now awaking
I’ll be a genius by the time I’m done the pot.

Ok, so maybe Hallmark missed out on something when I decided to write fantasy.

5 Responses to “Ode to Coffee”

1. Jennifer McKenzie Says:
   June 8th, 2007 at 9:48 am

   LMAO!!!! Ah coffee. The elixir of this writer. According to WW, I can’t write Haikus sooooo

   There once was a poor lonely writer
   Who woke to a cursor to fight her
   She gulped down some brew
   The brilliance ensued
   But the cursor kept blinking to spite her.

   LOL.

2. R.G. Alexander Says:
   June 8th, 2007 at 5:09 pm

   I love coffee. That was beautiful I cant wait to see what your plans are!
   I can see I’ll be peering over Lori’s laptop a lot! lol

3. Loribelle Hunt Says:
   June 9th, 2007 at 3:41 pm

   Hostess with the mostest?? Omg, what have we done!?

   Very cute. Now can we have an ode to sweet tea?

4. dayna Says:
   June 9th, 2007 at 3:58 pm

   Hey, you gave me power. You can’t take it back there. I have fairy tales to back me up on this one. Once given, neither power, curses or wishes, can be taken back. You’re now, officially, screwed Might as well smile and take it
   And as for Sweet Tea…I could maybe write a lament…

5. Lyric James Says:
   June 9th, 2007 at 4:23 pm

   I’ll be waiting for your Ode to Tea next week. That was too funny.