Café Notes

By Chukwuebuka Akaolisa

"Café Notes is a carefully curated collection in which tone and theme, two key elements and foundations of any focused and solid work of art, synchronize to offer readers an elixir from the first to the last page. 

The poems are characterized, enhanced and woven together by strings of symbols and metaphors around tea, coffee, cups, he

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
• Release date: Jan 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9789360491154

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I Said Bread, I Lied

We were asked, amidst this shrinking and expanding world,

of our staple; it is bread.

A noun leavened with metaphors that it chokes imagination

thus becoming a phenomenon. Paris calls it Pain.

It has followed the harvest of civilization as the yeasty dough that it is

it is what it is if you just say the name

like man to the floor, it answers to all flour

Until I piped into the many stories of tea

then I saw the staple is us

chased by the sun

found at the waters

subduing greenland

We who are most complex

are yet simply the one

A History Of Tea

There was a time when man with his bare soul mediated with nature, creature and man. He could chop trees to bridge unions, from the bush, across big streams and unto the streets. Watching seasons come and go, bearing whatever gift and levy that comes with