Saturday 1 September 2012

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Venice Dreaming

San Marco
ready to emerge
from the morning mist

Scents of Coffee
the hissing of a steamed-up espresso maker,
the comforting noise
of a spoon laid on a saucer,
stimulating olfactory senses

and then the collective sigh
of Java addicts around San Marco,
savouring that first sip of black gold

Images and Text
© by Merisi

Repost - first published 18 March 2011
Photographed 2010

12 comments:

  1. Nice photographs, interesting post. I am greeting

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  2. How neat...the oldest paper, made from ancient blocks of wood, I sure would love a selection from that...how wonderful~

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  3. What a wonderful place to have one's morning coffee!! Wish I were there right now! Great shots as always, Merisi! Enjoy your weekend!

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  4. Are there any absinthe bars in Vienna?

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  5. Such soft Venetian colors. Lovely.

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  6. Black gold is the pleasure the world around. You seem to visit the greatest places with the greatest decor.

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  7. If I lived in Venice, I would be breathless all the time (just from the beauty of the San Marco dome alone, not to mention the rest of the city) and I would need strong coffee to revive my senses.

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  8. Thank you all for your kind comments!

    A wonderful weekend to you,
    Merisi

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  9. That roof line of San Marco is one of my favorite sights. And the masses of tourists can't obscure it, thank goodness!

    Catching up on your beautiful posts -- loved the slightly tipsy picnic!

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    1. San Marco is beautiful, no matter how many ants are busy on the piazza!

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  10. Your angles make photography into art.
    The first one, St. Marco -- all that upper right emptiness is necessary.
    And the coffee... see, I am spiralling down into it, like a gull.
    You devil.

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    1. Thank you, Cipriano!
      I hope you found what you were hoping for, down in that rabbit hole, er, java bowl. ;-)

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