Poems from the Coffee Shop Prompt: The Red Wheelbarrow
so much depends upon...
Over at Every Day Poems, there’s a thoughtful reflection about The Red Wheel Barrow.
Here’s a quote from the reflection:
When life feels fragile, it is good to have
a sense of connection beyond your immediate circumstances.
Your Prompt
Pen a poem about…
• the fragility of life, or
• an object glazed with rain, or
• an impromptu coffee shop you set up in an unexpected place, or
• something upon which “so much depends”
Share your poem with the community. We can’t wait to read!
Note: sometimes, with your permission, we feature your poems in Every Day Poems if they’re a fit.
Featured photo by Gilberto Olimpio, Unsplash license.
Breakfast with William Carlos Williams by David Lee Garrison
raspberry jam
knifed
into the heart
of a white
scone
glazed with
sugar
beside a mug
of black
coffee
LONDON COFFEE CORNERS, 1700’s
London Libraries were Coffee Centres Learning Augmented, Prepared Inventors Locals Intermingled, Laymen and Banters Commercial Dealings, Pacts, Indentures
Coffeehouses Welcomed Tradesmen, Poets and Whigs Affordable Charges for the Custom-made Swigs Opulent, Underprivileged, Middle-Class Population Diverse Ideas Entertained with Respectful Adulation
Comedians, Authors, Versifiers, and Jokers Most of the Attendees, Compulsive Smokers Obviously, Conducted Dogmatic Conversations Nazir Disregards Controversial Narrations
London Coffeehouses Faced Temporary Ban Perturbed Momentously, Coffee-loving Fan Public Demand, Pressure, Intensive Campaign With Self-Devised Regulations, Revived Again
Intellectually Invigorating Coffee-cup Effect An Alternative to Alcohol as a Matter of Fact Liquor, Expensive Whisky, Coffee was Cheap Circumvent Intoxication, Introspection You Keep
Plaques Depict a Corner-house Coffee Space D. Edwards Promoted Pasque Rosee London Base Photograph Captures Demonstrative Cultural View
Outside the Caffe, Well-dressed Englishmen Few
Man’s at Charing Cross and Button’s in Bow Street
Delicious Turkish Produce, One Could not Beat
But Wills’ Coffee House in Russell Street
Where Samuel Pope and John Dryden Meet
Their Conversation Generated Intellectual Heat
London Learning Sources, One Loves to Tweet
It was an Ultimate Makeover of the Public Sphere Jurgen Habermas Has Made it Abundantly Clear
Coffeehouses with Bookshelves Again Public Librar
Public Library Money Halted, Tea Libraries Remain
{Written by Professor Dr Nazir Ahmad, Chartered
CILIP Member on 23 April 2025 at the UCL Library}