The Acrostic Poetry Challenge: Coffee

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The Acrostic Poem has been a long-standing challenge, mainly between B'Elana and PedanticBarSteward. However, we've decided to open up the idea to anyone who would like to take part, as a regular poetry challenge.

The word chosen each time is the Telegram Game's current word, so if you join in or subscribe to the telegram game you'll know as soon as it's announced. When you've completed your poem, submit it by posting to a new thread below, and we'll put the best of them together in the next issue.

Have fun!

Coffee

Bel
Creamy, bitter, milky, mild
Or any way that drives you wild.
Flavour is great, as is the smell
Fantastic, it's also as hot as hell.
Ecstatically you close your eyes:
Each sip makes you feel like in paradise.

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PedanticBarSteward
Can you start a single day,
Or see one other single way,
For waking up at break of dawn,
Forlorn at being overdrawn,
Ever stressed, beyond regain,
Except a coffee calms the brain

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Dmitri Gheorgheni
Caffeine jitters rule the planet,
Own it, grind it, pack and can it.
Futilely docs try to ban it1.
Frisky goats led us right to it2,
Emperors and tyrants boo it3.
Even fortune-tellers brew it4.
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Acrostic Poems Archive

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Bel, and PedanticBarSteward

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1'Caffeine is on the International Olympic Committee list of prohibited substances.'2'Legend of goat herder Kaldi of Ethiopia who notices goats are friskier after eating red berries of a local shrub.' 3'Both the American Revolution and the infamous French Revolution were born in coffee houses.'4'Turkish coffee is unique because it allows your fortune to be told by looking at the cup.'

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