Best Tea Leaf Poems
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......
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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 and sparrow down by the shake and shiver, I sell april showers, I duke of kent my pope ......
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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 wouldn’t Christmas Eve it
Almost totally Boracic on the way to me......
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Categories:
tea leaf, funnyme, eve, me,
Form:
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 wouldn’t Christmas Eve it
Almost totally Boracic on the way to the Pope......
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Categories:
tea leaf, funny, me, eve, me,
Form:
Classicism
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 & Tray
I Like The 'Rose Tea and Herbal Teas
& The Honey-V......
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Categories:
tea leaf, drink, food, fun, garden,
Form:
Light Verse
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
Searching...zen swirled, tea leaf clouds
wisps of chi on autumn’s breath…
scent of sunflower
**31 Jan 2016**......
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Categories:
tea leaf, journey, nature,
Form:
Haiku
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 should at least listen as it is
told.
Gripped tightly th......
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Categories:
tea leaf, adventure, fun, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
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 dare call it that
Not doing things to evade the consequence soun......
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Categories:
tea leaf, confusion, social, time, me,
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 the convalescent home...
My pharmacy number is i......
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Categories:
tea leaf, imagery, lost, old,
Form:
Free verse
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 is a little bit of titter......
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Categories:
tea leaf, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Trashv...denied creation once sighted beard man
that seperate then his girlfriend danced
strength from far away for me to find a fi......
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Categories:
tea leaf, allegory, music, me,
Form:
Blank verse
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 by moving their tails up and dow......
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Categories:
tea leaf, bird,
Form:
Free verse
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 perform,
She’d tell them their future with a little te......
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Categories:
tea leaf, freedom, future, hope,
Form:
Quatrain
Augury...
there are very blurred lines between
what is coincidence and what is augury
omen, or fore-token
for in my dreams and meditation
I have been confronted with regret and shame
sorrow, and gri......
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Categories:
tea leaf, introspection,
Form:
Free verse