To The Coffee House
Monday, December 31, 2007 by Abhinav
I realized long ago that what I had to say could barely keep one blog going, let alone two blogs at a time. There wasn't a great difference in their themes either, for them to exist separately. So I thought I must have a single blog and try to make it as good as possible. And finally, just before the new year, I've managed to merge my two blogs - which had been growing apart yet together like Siamese twins - into a single coherent whole.
And to bid good bye to The-Year-That-Was, here's a splendid coffeehouse poem by the bohemian Viennese poet Peter Altenberg, whom I discovered today following the trail laid out by Medhini (Now I've newfound respect for coffee):
And to bid good bye to The-Year-That-Was, here's a splendid coffeehouse poem by the bohemian Viennese poet Peter Altenberg, whom I discovered today following the trail laid out by Medhini (Now I've newfound respect for coffee):
When you are worried, have trouble of one sort or another - to the coffee house!
When she did not keep her appointment, for one reason or another - to the coffee house!
When your shoes are torn and dilapidated - coffee house!
When your income is four hundred crowns and you spend five hundred - coffee house!
You are a chair warmer in the office, while your ambition led you to to seek professional honors - coffee house!
You could not not find a mate to suit you - coffee house!
You feel like committing suicide - coffee house!
You hate and despise human beings, and at the same time you cannot be happy without them - coffee house!
You compose a poem which you can not inflict upon friends that you meet in the street - coffee house!
When your coal scuttle is empty, and your gas ration exhausted - coffee house!
When you are locked out and haven't the money to pay for unlocking the house door - coffee house!
When you acquire a new flame, and intend provoking the old one, you take the new one to the old one's - coffee house!
When you feel like hiding, you dive into a - coffee house!
When you want to be seen in a new suit - coffee house!
When you can not get anything on trust anywhere else - coffee house!
Happy New Year to all my fellow bloggers! Meet you on the other side of the midnight!! Ciao!!!
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Happy New Year to you also!!
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Happy New Year CL! I feel glad for the year past because I discovered blogging which soon grew into a formidable hobby. Thank heavens!
Happy New Year, Abhinav! Love your new blog format here--you made a good choice, and just in time to welcome the new year.
I liked the poem, too. Lately, I have felt like our blog world is my virtual coffee shop.
Cheers, my friend!
:)
Happy New year Abhinav. Glad you like Peter Altenberg! And thank you for introducing me to your blog world!
@Sarah: That's absolutely true. The blogosphere is all the things that Altenberg mentions in the poem minus the coffee. Well, we can always sit down with a large mug of steaming coffee while blogging and bloffee. ;-)
May the New Year make all your wishes come true.
@Medhini: Thanks to you for the same reason. ;-)
I had a lot of fun and some sheer nostalgia visiting your blog and came away refreshed.
Happy New Year to you too. :-)
I love that photo. I would really like to find a coffee house like that one.
Even I love the pic. Absolutely dark, cuddly and comforting. ThoughI think finding the cafe may take you to China. ;-)
Happy New Year!
Looking forward to what you explore here in the coming year.
Happy New Year Jason. I hope that this blog continues to flourish under the guidance and encouragement of experienced bloggers like you. :-)
Love the picture, love the poem! And I like the new look of your blog!
Happy new year to you!
Thanks thrice Ello for loving the look, the pic and the poem ;-) Happy New Year. God bless you.
u have a lovely blog...saw ur comment on 'klash'...we seem to share a similar taste for books,judging from ur reading list...ive had to stop reading for a year as im studyin...n its like torture...at least i dont have to make a catch up list...i can just folow urs!love ur blog...everything abt it!and the writing...wow.
do checkout my blog...gimme ur comments...wud love to hear from u,tc.
Too bad you stopped reading for such a long time. Else we could have exchanged notes and books. ;-)
Thanks for liking my blog so much. I just discovered Klash. I missed out on such an important word there Love. But I'll there from next time on. :-)
it's too late for this comment, i don't think u'll come across this one now! but anyway, "wen im replying n no one reads the comment.... COFFEE HOUSE!!" lol..... reading this one was really nice, it made me smile at every line. And yeah.... nice to know that u r a writer.... ppl who know how to live with words can live life to the fullest! all the best n happy new year even if thats too late!!
take care,
tata!
It's never too late to comment on my blog, dear witty_smile. And I come across all comments through a notification in my Inbox. So worry not. ;-)
Each line of the poem made me smile when I read it for the first time. That is why I put it up. Glad that you liked it and it brought a smile to your face. :-)
And what you say about words, well how wise art thou!