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Best Tea Leaf Poems

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Tea Leaf Readings
I have a cup full of tea leaves
that my story, it is suppose to
hold.

I don't know if I believe this
but the cup is lovely enough
I...

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Categories: tea leaf, adventure, fun, scary,
Form: Rhyme



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: tea leaf, longing, memory, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Cockney Geezer
I was born within the sound of Bow bells in the east end of London, this makes me a true cockney, I own a cock...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tea leaf, england, humor, identity, london,
Form: Narrative
The Great Bell of Bow
The Great Bell of Bow

I feel such a Steam Tug and no Porkies
Some Tea Leaf Half Inched me Jam jar

In me local Nuclear Sub you...

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© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tea leaf, funnyme, eve, me,
Form: I do not know?
The Great Bell of Bow
The Great Bell of Bow

I feel such a Steam Tug and no Porkies
Some Tea Leaf Half Inched me Jam jar

In me local Nuclear Sub you...

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© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tea leaf, funny, me, eve, me,
Form: Classicism



Japanese Tea Ceremony
Tea leaf powder brewed
Token stream of tea devolves
Cyclye of life flows
Reincarnated grains bind
Nouveau palates sift huskings...

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Categories: tea leaf, allegory
Form: Tanka
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: tea leaf, drink, food, fun, garden,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Searching
zen swirled, tea leaf clouds
wisps of chi on autumn’s breath… 
         scent of sunflower

   ...

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© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tea leaf, journey, nature,
Form: Haiku
The Things We Do
She told me she stopped drinking to avoid a hangover
This, I laughed at 
She does a lot of things almost like idiocy but I wouldn’t...

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Categories: tea leaf, confusion, social, time, me,
Form: Free verse
Too Good For Me
Too Good For Me

You want me to be a dancer
But my rhythm is in my speech
Always asking me for answers
When the words are out of...

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Categories: tea leaf, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member She Is Making Eyeball Tea
What is she making? Someone asks, wondering aloud.
She is a pretty girl, friendly, but not overly loud.
It looks like something red, someone replies. Maybe berries?
There...

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Categories: tea leaf, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Wagtails
Mid morning in the now leafy white poplar, tall and symmetrical,

four flashing light and dark magnificent magpies tea leaf, steal the 

mannerisms of tinier wagtails...

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© Peter Dorr  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tea leaf, bird,
Form: Free verse
The Home
Echoes of the woman's tea-leaf warnings 
bounce in my head...
I stare at the spilled apple sauce 
all over my bed...
I watch the flickering TV in...

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Categories: tea leaf, imagery, lost, old,
Form: Free verse
Cool Moe B
Cool Moe B

Back in the day we used to pray
 Others say it ought not be that way
 Snake pit, lion's den you need someone...

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Categories: tea leaf, addiction, africa, black african
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fortune Teller
She spent her life doing just the one thing, 
One thing that people payed for,
The one thing nobody else could do…
They’d pay to watch her...

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Categories: tea leaf, freedom, future, hope,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Reflection on the Important Things