Quiet Contemplation

As you drink steaming hot coffee
In a proper white china mug, you can
Relax within a perfumed ambience
Of quiet contemplation.

If you grab a silly plastic coffee bottle
From a convenience store
You’ll miss the subtle aroma,
The quiet contemplation.

March 2006, Tokyo

Excerpt from Chuo Line and Other Poems by Mukesh Williams

A Coffee Shop

An old style French coffee shop
Wafting warm coffee smell
In a light drizzle,
A soft piano music
Quiet between an occasional
Clutter of cups,
Chopping of salad,
A brief conversation
A pretty waitress
In white and crimson dress
A drizzle of piano music
And nothing else to do,
No hurry,
Just a quiet reflection
Unwinding itself