Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Ode on a Coffee Urn - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com 

https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

Ode on a Coffee Urn

 

If Keats Took His Morning Coffee

at Hub City Diner in Lafayette, Louisiana

 

Thou stainless steel bride of the day’s pale dawn

Thou foster-child of all our morning hopes

Patient historian who writes upon

The pages of our lives optimistic tropes:

 

What die-cut label hangs about thy shape

Of morning blends or sometimes darker roasts

From Jamaica’s Blue Mountain, or some further scape

Perhaps above Colombia’s green coasts

 

What men or gods are these who at Hub City can say

“What wonderful coffee for beginning the day!”

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