Life-A cup of coffee- NaPoWriMo Day 1

NaPoWriMo is finally here! Some light amidst darkness , I must say. So, we are sharpening our pencils, cleaning our notepads and of course oiling our minds 🙂

Here’s the prompt for Day 1 and we were also provided with a metaphor generator tool. I really had fun playing with the tool. I came up with a lot of interesting metaphors and have used about eight of them in my poem (I hope the overuse hasn’t spoiled the piece!)

Write a self-portrait poem in which you make a specific action a metaphor for your life – one that typically isn’t done all that often, or only in specific circumstances. For example, bowling, or shopping for socks, or shoveling snow, or teaching a child to tie its shoes.

Life- A cup of coffee

A cup of coffee

That’s what my life is

A cup of hot and strong mocha

That’s what it felt like the other day

It’s biting hot incense

Revealing the lava inside

When someone stated,

“You are malty, steely, undisturbed, spicy, and flat”

“I don’t mind,” I replied,

sipping the annoyance behind annoyed grasping

A glass of chilled frothy coffee

I prefer on hot humid days

When my senses, and my emotions,

carouse in recreation

like volcanic sea caves that have frosty fetors

I am the epitome of calmness and generosity (only those days),

A balm of words to the wounded, like the cold coffee on a hot day,

“You are the relaxation toward the gratification,” they cited that day

I adjust the milk sometimes,

To clear the whiffs of vaguenesses

Add a tinge of caramel or hazelnut

To suppress corrosivenesses and perplexities

“You are the sanities outside the hopelessness,” they say

As I appease the life’s gustation

A new flavor- a new fervor; a fresh aroma- a distinct vanity, each day

Yes, a cup of coffee, that’s what my life is!

©Vandana Bhasin

01.04.2020