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Isadora's Cafe

July 8, 2013
By Lilia PLATINUM, El Cajon, California
Lilia PLATINUM, El Cajon, California
22 articles 14 photos 17 comments

Favorite Quote:
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. ~ Rumi


Winter’s there every morning
Sipping her unsweetened tea
Reading
Sometimes the newspaper
Sometimes a textbook
Sometimes a novel
Or a magazine

She may have a camera hanging around her neck
Her sunglasses resting on her strawberry blonde curls
Her hands might be stained with ink
As she hurries to write a slippery idea
Before her tea goes cold

Winter sits in the window
Looking out at the street
She wears scarves
Red, blue, yellow, gold, black, gray
Striped, dotted, floral
They snake around her slender neck
Keeping the cold air out

Sometimes, on days where rain kisses the ground
Winter listens to music
Anyone can tell
Because when she listens to music, she closes her eyes
And the toe of her boot taps
To some invisible rhythm
As she stirs her tea

Winter waits
In Isadora’s Café
For what, I’ve never nor will ever know
Her sad brown eyes skirt mine every once in a while
And I can see the impatience
She waits
Every morning
Sipping unsweetened tea


The author's comments:
Winter waits for her life to begin.

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Mckay ELITE said...
on Aug. 1 2013 at 7:10 pm
Mckay ELITE, Somewhere, Virginia
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Favorite Quote:
"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
—Apple’s “Think Different” commercial, 1997
“Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.”
― Weihui Zhou

Impeccable personification of winter! I love the title too. 

sarah98 BRONZE said...
on Aug. 1 2013 at 6:56 pm
sarah98 BRONZE, Holyoke, Massachusetts
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Favorite Quote:
It is better to write for yourself and have no audience than write for your audience and have no self.

i really like this! its almost fairytale-ish