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Best Pekoe Poems

Below are the all-time best Pekoe poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of pekoe poems written by PoetrySoup members


Orange-Pekoe Tea
A teabag is snug 
in an orange rind as it floats
on the brown sewage;

the spinach leaves swirl
as the drain gobbles and sucks, 
and the brocoli...

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Categories: pekoe, allusion, anxiety, butterfly,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Making Tea
It's styles of a nameless brand pristine day
an exclusive star-sheathed shadow after 
overwhelming luminous glare fainted
a somewhat true-to-life footpath in
a back of structured quaintness

Encountering myself...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pekoe, allusion, analogy, blessing, celebration,
Form: Concrete
Tea Party For Four
Tea Party For Four

Two girls partake of afternoon tea
Under willow trees and pleasant weather 
Dolly’s join them, splendid gowns, sentry ready
Social graces with porcelain clean...

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Categories: pekoe, adventure, celebration, childhood, children,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One More Cuppa Tea
One More Cuppa Tea 

to the unknowing
the cup is empty,
slightly stained,
laced with miniscule
cracks.  It has a glossy
sheen., polished
by life’s luster,
buffed and buffeted
by its burdens,
distilling...

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Categories: pekoe, longing, memory, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Simple Pleasure
A  Simple Pleasure

A simple pleasure in simple lines

Frosty mornings, that wear fuzzy slippers,
Bundled against the dawning amber chill
To watch the early robins through misted...

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Categories: pekoe, happiness, joy, peace,
Form: Free verse



A Mixture of Tea
I Like The 'Black Tea, The White Tea
and The English Breakfast & Earl Grey'
and I Serve 'Rooibos' and 'Ginger'  Teas
In My Silver Pot, Cups...

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Categories: pekoe, drink, food, fun, garden,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Drinking a Cup of Tea
*Image of Royal Alberts by Antiques And Teacups.

Drinking a Cup of Tea

An outing drizzling visits two,
walking past a depot.
Dashing through the rain they withdrew,
in a...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pekoe, destiny, happiness, meaningful, together,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Glowing Enchantment
  "Glowing Enchantment"

footprints softly sifting on warm beach to view
golden hazy orb of sunglow beaming radiant hue.

sharing a picture oerfect moment as day dawns...

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Categories: pekoe, imagination, morning,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Sizzling Cliches
An effervescent sizzling rain
falls outside my window panes
dreary, stay home day
A day for brewing pekoe tea 
not one for walking by the sea
an early spring...

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Categories: pekoe, nature,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member Joyful Madness
Butter crumb confection is bliss;
Soft transformation oozes across my palate.
How I love my sweets and dance my taste bud dance!

Liquid silk cocoa whipped with, delicate...

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Categories: pekoe, food, humor, imagery, poetry,
Form: Prose
Strawberry Tea
I slipped a strawberry tea
under plain bags of pekoe tea
so handsome chance might choose a someone,
and I, the flavor of their confusion....

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Categories: pekoe, confusion, drink, imagery, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chickadee Chimpanzee Bumblebee and Little Me
Sweet merry happy chickadee
was terrified of the old racer chimpanzee
He is not so bad threw in the bumblebee
If you knew him well, you could easily...

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Categories: pekoe, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Soap Making Business
What kind of soap are you making? I asked the gnomes.
They had many ideas they were sharing with each other.
Their soap-making business outgrew most of...

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Categories: pekoe, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
How Can It Be
Eighteen yellow roses arrived today
The forth of September, with walnut tree
leaves Falling like snow, twirling to the ground
Nineteen years ago Rose arrived that may
The eighth of...

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© Eric Erb  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pekoe, absence,
Form: Elegy
Love Sat Alone
Outside a café of a busy boulevard,
she sat sipping her orange pekoe tea
And I looked at her intently,
trying to gauge her mood
She had a faraway,...

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Categories: pekoe, beauty, dream, imagery, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs