Copper and Gold

[Xctv]

Silk-wool blends and peaked lapels
Coupled with overstated Windsor knots
Fresh coffee held by gold fingertips

Cup in hand, he drinks coppers tonight
The other covered with scars, cut by the wind
 Aged leather and missing drawstrings

He reaches out
Only to be met by contempt

[UselessBlueprint]

Succinct, which I like. I fully enjoy the first stanza. At the end of line 4, I lose that enjoyment with the word "tonight." This point, and everything that follows, simply isn't clear enough for me. I expect that more experienced readers will understand those lines a bit better, but the "aged leather and missing drawstrings" create an image that seems foreign to me. The final two lines bother me, as I have absolutely no idea what the subject is reaching out to. Maybe I missed something, but it just seems like it's vague for the sake of being vague.

[Achebe]

Silk-wool blends and peaked lapels
Coupled with overstated Windsor knots
Fresh coffee held by gold fingertips

Cup in hand, he drinks coppers tonight
The other covered with scars, cut by the wind
 Aged leather and missing drawstrings

He reaches out
Only to be met by contempt

L1 is good, but by the time I reach L3 I can't follow what you're trying to say. Individual lines in a poem must still form complete sentences: a poem should make sense written out as prose (grammatical, if not logical sense). 
The absence of punctuation makes it harder to read.
 
L4-L6 sound nice to the ear, but I have no idea what is being talked about. The conclusion is therefore, even harder to make sense of.
Maybe you should provide some clues in the title.

[nikkisto]

Silk-wool blends and peaked lapels
Coupled with overstated Windsor knots
Fresh coffee held by gold fingertips  I find myself sitting with 'gold fingertips' here and unsure what it's meant to imply

Cup in hand, he drinks coppers tonight  
The other covered with scars, cut by the wind  
 Aged leather and missing drawstrings   While I like the way this line reads, some punctuation would help connect it better with the previous                                                                     line and read easier.
He reaches out
Only to be met by contempt

I enjoy your foundation here, but wonder if the last 2 lines need to either be built upon or deleted. I assume you're going for the abruptness of the ending, but the last stanza doesn't feel connected enough to the other two yet. 

[Leanne]

I like your contrasts here, and find them accurately drawn. Perhaps something slightly more clear, like "he reaches toward the gold"' would make it easier for some readers to understand (although personally I enjoy the subtlety). Also, maybe "fingers ringed in gold" or some such would be less of a stretch.

[Ehud]

Silk-wool blends and peaked lapels
Coupled with overstated Windsor knots
Fresh coffee held by gold fingertips

Cup in hand, he drinks coppers tonight
The other covered with scars, cut by the wind
 Aged leather and missing drawstrings

He reaches out
Only to be met by contempt

The first and last stanza are nice. The second one seems to break apart after its first line. Perhaps it would help if you expanded your metaphor so the "aged leather and missing drawstrings" fits in better.

[JRZH]

Silk-wool blends and peaked lapels
Coupled with overstated Windsor knots
Fresh coffee held by gold fingertips

Cup in hand, he drinks coppers tonight
The other covered with scars, cut by the wind
 Aged leather and missing drawstrings

He reaches out
Only to be met by contempt

Very mind inducing and your imagery creates a very emotive and vivid effect and impact on the reader. I like how ambiguous you have become, can I ask why there are only two lines in the last stanze, whilst the rest of your poem has three lines per stanza? It is a very intriguing poem!

[Erthona]

In need of punctuation for clarity. Starting every line with a capital letter makes the piece harder to read (see note below on typesetting).

The first stanza appears seems to be a description of a group of people, as "knots" and "lapels" are plural, indicating a group of men dressed in similar fashion. Upper crust, possibly, as the " gold fingertips" may be meant figuratively. So a men's group or club of some sort.

S2 An individual " he drinks"

" he drinks coppers tonight" idiomatic (British), I assume it means cheap as contrasted to the "gold fingertips"

What the following means, or why it is in this poem completely bypasses me.

"The other covered with scars, cut by the wind
Aged leather and missing drawstrings"

However, "Aged leather" is singular, whereas "drawstrings" is plural. One generally talks of a drawstring as there tends to be one per object, not multiple ones.

S3 One could infer that the individual who is a member of the group has fallen on hard times " he drinks coppers tonight" and so when he

"He reaches out"

for money, for morale support, et al.

he is "met by contempt."

About what one would expect from a bunch of snobs. Or maybe the man's an alcoholic and they have given him many chances and he has blown them all away, and so they are no longer will to help this former friend. Yet nothing is clear, and the end brings only confusion to this reader as well as to most of the other reviewers.

Best,

dale


*typesetting
As a service to your reader(s), please do not cap the start of every line. That was originally a necessity related to typesetting. Capping the lines in print went out in the 1950's, primarily because it was no longer a need in typesetting, and it was less confusing to the reader. Most people coming up through the school system tend to read poetry either in text books or in anthologies. The compilers of these texts prefer not to use copyrighted material, which leaves more of the older material that is typeset in the old way, giving the impression that is how it should be done which is an unfortunate misapprehension.