Intimacy in the Night Cafe
In these moments, when our legs are aligned,
each eye will spy coffee bean delights.
Minds focussed for many seconds, as if selecting
from a roster of rotating smells; of dough here dealt -
Sometimes not, if a jangling till keeps slamming
clanging this ordered something into nothing.
This - cherished something - in the designated light,
a tiny blip of vibration; a play from the mortal day -
Curtain calls replayed by base or soprano murmurs;
warming a social winter into steaming life.
But when chaos shadows sweep precipices
there appear mountains that we all must climb -
So I took my walk opposite of where the hikers ordered -
this detour, a metre into randomness;
And found her heart surprised that I felt not denied
to any access of where her soul resides; this strangeness
- A naked tremble - nothing that the beaming moon
or stars in the sky would ever hide behind.
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Submitted on March 30, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 859 |
Words | 156 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
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