It must be my Irish DNA that makes me love tea over coffee and dark beer over wine.
A pub and a tea shop have a lot in common for those who enjoy a good brew.
I’m drawn by the intoxicating flavors, the alluring aromas, the warm and cold, the clear amber tones.
Whether assam, ceylon, pekoke, [...]
Cherry blossom branches
spill from China vases
Assam passion flirts
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Porcelain pots simmer
Victorian tea parlor
Readers see the future
in lingering loose leaves
Beatniks play saucers
Ring teaspoon clappers
Jam with jazz rappers
Sing praises to Lao Tzu
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Haiku with high tea
Best to sip slowly
Don’t brew the oolong
too long
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Sparkling night ignited
Stars boil over
from the big dipper
a milky way of tea
~ From Teapoet, my chapbook of tea haiku and other sips of poetic brew. More teapoems can be read HERE.
Contemplation steeped
in a pool of lavish tea
Share a cup of gold
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My empty white tea bowl on a white paper saucer held so much potential that I found myself smiling. It seemed to smile back like a happy full moon with a secret.
After the swirling tea was poured and my bowl was filled, I gazed into the steamy pool like a clairvoyant. With a [...]
Hint of citrus
mixes with hibiscus
mingles with rose hips
in a tea garden bouquet
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Poets rhyme sugar
with teacup and saucer
They alliterate morning
with mug
A scented cloud lifts
from a lake of Darjeeling
Bamboo flute notes rise
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Camellia Sinensis and the Celtic Goddess Brigit. Seven women and a daughter. Scones and apple cobbler.
Crème de fresh and marmalade, red rooibos and Pu-erh carmel tea. Steeped in poetry, painting, and candlelight. Haiku oracles and stated intentions.
From the Gaelic Goddess Brigit and Imbolc to Christian Candlemas and Saint Brigit, patron [...]
Tea Blossom Blooms
Rusty Rose Mandala
A Sunrise Flower
in an Earl Grey Day
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Dark brewed oracle
Three cups full
A holy trinity
from St. Brigit’s well
Post notes: Coming Soon to a Teaspoon Near You HERE. Christmas pots by Josh.
Tea-ball anchor
settling mantra
stills the tortured tempest
of an undecided mind
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Serving up savory haiku and sips of poetic brew, wave after wave of words to lull and awaken, to soothe or inspire. TEAPOET is a new 28 page chapbook by Colleen Redman, available around town in Floyd or by mail. Send $6 plus $1 shipping and handling to 151 Ridge Haven Road, Floyd, [...]
Stream of clarity flows
from an orange pekoe sea
a leafy twig floats
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Folding little tea poems
Origami notes
Petals of the Orient
Light enough to float
