1. With morning's bitter coffee I awoke
Its glow instead of lantern's light invoked

2. Ruby red where its drinker poured the water
Blooming open like a slit pomegranate

3. Beads of dew collect on the cup's rim
As drops on flower petals, clinging, glimmering

4. Breathing laughter on the faces of the people
Like musk breathed on the cleft of apples ripe