Cafe` Blue Poem by tawanda omphile plaatjie

My friend Gabriel Mogomotsi Rasenyai and I were playing around with words and came up with this...

Quaint: Café blue, jazz sounds, coffee and laughter
A magnetic chemistry that is yet sweet in its lack of innocence
You are a love story waiting to happen

Tawa: A love story that will be told for years to the generations of the sweet chemistry
In more cafes than imaginable
With jazz sounds in the background
Children of the soil will make the places their playground
Words bouncing and sliding from their coffee stained tongues
Telling the love story that waited to happen

Quaint: There is nothing here to be done except appreciate your beauty in trembling salute
Fate has smiled on us and shone bright the light of tomorrow in our hopeful eyes
That now interlock as we trade thoughts and spirit
And sure as anything tangible we both can feel it
So meet me on the moon young love and bring your laughter along
Our eternity just begun
And if you will care for it may I ever have this dance
With you?



Tawa: The dance you may have sir
If you will only promise we will keep dancing long after the music has stopped
And many moons have given way to a million and more sunrises
Like the captivating African sunsets that leave the land stained red
So will be our meeting
Captivating, staining the mood red, the color of love
As thoughts and spirit are not only traded but become one
Oh fate what a wonder you are
The beginning of a love story that waited to happen.