Monday, March 02, 2009

CXXVIII - Instant Gratification

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Instant Gratification

It’s brown and wet and hot,
And delivers caffeine on request,
But as far as daily coffee goes,
Instant’s far from best.

It clearly is what coffee aint,
But our life is one of haste.
What you gain in time and cost,
You lose in smell and taste.

But best is often out of reach
And we settle for a quickie.
Chasing perfection is well and good
But juggling life is tricky.

When the day is in decline,
And there is time for you to pour it,
We can take the genuine thing
And feel all the better for it.

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© J Cosmo Newbery
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19 comments:

  1. Ugh. It's already Monday there, t'ain't it.
    (Not that Monday's tainted.)

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  2. Is it just me or does the stuff in the cup resemble tomato soup more than coffee (even instant)?

    Good poem and great sentiment.

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  3. Good poem; but I'd never drink instant and I'd never drink late at night. I can still appreciate the poem though. I do. I did. Really.

    And yes it's Monday.

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  4. thank you for the gentle reminder to stop and smell the orchids.

    life can be a beautiful journey if we choose. so often i feel i'm at the mercy of time rather than making time stop and accommodate me.

    as if a willful redhead could persuade time to stop ...

    salud!

    lola
    x

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  5. Coffee? Is coffee. Ha ha. Coffee with us. Let us awake, but also let us sleepy. :)

    http://eyesinkaleidoscope.blogspot.com/
    http://fymtyh.blogspot.com/

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  6. Yeah Dan, sorry about that. I was originally going to use posterisation on the photo and had intensified the colour as it is usually subdued by the process and then decided on something else. C'est la vie. It WAS coffee. True.

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  7. my morning brew is organic instant and I love it .......great words xx

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  8. I couldn't agree more, beautifully put.

    I would like to know, was this partially inspired by my rant-comment about coffee several weeks ago?

    If so then I am delighted. If not then I'm still delighted, a kindred instant-coffee-hating spirit.

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  9. Yes, your stand against instant coffee was a prompt for this effort. I have nothing against instant personally, it's just not coffee. Perhaps we should find another name for it - one of Google's verification words, perhaps.

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  10. Well the Greeks call all instant coffee Nes as in Nescafe.. I go through phases and I am doing the warm brown stuff in an instant.

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  11. Mum drinks instant if she has no other choice, she says it's better than nothing but your idea of calling it something else is nice! We like that:)

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  12. My whole family drinks instant coffee, except for me.;))
    But I agree with your sentiments; sometimes a quickie will do.:P

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  13. I like instant coffee, don't have time to brew or plunge...save that for special times when I feel like indulging myself or at a cafe. ♥

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  14. I sit here reading your words drinking coffee my husband made. So I can't complain today.

    Never instant, though.

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  15. Oh, J Cosmo...I like this. It says much for any area of ones life, doesn't it? Well done!

    :o)

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  16. There's a lesson here that extends way beyond coffee. You are a genius J Cosmo!

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  17. My biggest addiction...

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  18. It clearly is what coffee aint,
    But our life is one of haste.
    What you gain in time and cost,
    You lose in smell and taste.


    That says it all for me. You're a genius. ... an so popular these days... ;)

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  19. LOL! I don't drink coffee, but I know enough to know that real coffee drinkers never drink instant. :)

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