In Praise of Coffee

Gate to Seoul

A gift from the Gods

Seeds not pods

Red Ethiopian berry

Stone fruit like a cherry

Maybe Yemen grown

Mountainside or Mocha port as home

Washed and dried then fire roasted

Tumbled round and perfectly toasted

Ground and boiled and placed in urn

Or percolated so it doesn’t burn

Maybe Keurig, or maybe drip

Doesn’t matter, I’ll have a sip

Might be black or soft brown with cream

Almost better than a dream

Slightly sweetened to me is the best

But I don’t turn up my nose at the rest

In a porcelain cup warming my hand

It warms my soul as well, Oh Man!

A baser admission (I don’t mean to stoop)

Coffee also helps me poop

Brings new life to every day

A few moments of calm to sip and pray

Energizing, Antioxidizing,

A little too much and my blood pressure is rising

A warm cup of Java is hard to beat

Now my praise of coffee is complete

Aurora

Endless Road

The morning process

Of making the coffee.

Sitting in darkness

Waiting for the moments

Of calm.

Dark black moments

Where I sip

On calmness.

Then listen again

To cat crys

And see again

The new dawn.

 

Contemplation

Gate to Seoul

Thinking about thinking
I ponder the imponderable
What capacity has mankind for acts of inhumanity
What capacity has mankind for acts of human kindness
What capacity has mankind for evolving into greatness
And perhaps in the process changing the universe
If we can get past the Great Filter without destroying ourselves in the process
If we can get past tribalism and be who we are called by the universe to be
Thinking about thinking
I revel in the philosophy of Dunning and Kruger
And I worry about the Mount from which I sit and ponder