Tea leaves, tea bags which is the way to go,
Square, round or triangular, stirring them to and fro.
Milky, sugary or a builders brew,
Have you thought which best suits you.
Whichever you choose it has to be hot,
I prefer tea to coffee but I will have whatever you've got.
A biscuit would be really nice,
But not the chocolate ones they are such a shocking price.
There are lots of English things to see,
But nothing is better than a nice cup of tea.
Floating Market on the River
A Thailand tradition
Large sun umbrellas
And boat roofs or hoods
And Asian conical hats
A bucket of cracked brown egg shells
A grandma quickly whips up
Egg, oyster and fresh, crisp bean sprout
In rice flour batter
Raw and cooked food
Vendors sell garden produce
And cooked food
Prepared right before one’s eyes
Plantain, banana, bean sprouts
Breadfruit
Coconut sugar, syrup and fresh coconut
Poof- a cloud of smoke surround the cook
Another vendor grills meat on skewers
She makes chicken, liver and sticky rice
Tart and sweet star fruit
Steamed sticky rice, coconut milk , sugar and banana inside its leaf
A sweet Thailand tamale
A live band: saxophonist, keyboardist and vocalist plays for donations
Fried quell egg
Fresh and dried spices
Fresh and dried sea food: shrimp, fish
Grilled scallop
Cooked noodles
Cooked squid, prawn, crab and fish
Green papaya salad
Boat brewed coffee
Soda pop
Distilled water
Tea
Beer
Blood cake
Pork
Rice noodles
Marckincia Jean
Free verse
09/30/19
Busy in TEA: Crazy in COFFEE
Darjeeling tea follows breakfast daily,
adding pinch of salt, squeezing lemon.
Tea leaves are soaked for three minutes strictly.
Refreshed ready for the day onward morn.
After lunch, green tea without milk, sugar
I relish to sip for extra energy.
To taste I feel restless, always eager,
my favorite digestive nice green tea.
On evening, a compulsive urge pushes
to close-by Café, that blends coffee bean.
Smell mesmerizes olfactory cells.
Hot cappuccino with sweet heart of mine.
Any time taken tea time as suited.
Tea is the best drink so far invented.
12/04/16
Second Place
'Completely Your Choice (46) by Brian Strand
Plago the plagiarist made a potion
Milk sugar salt and abomination
He put it in a box
A Devil's paradox
It could be the best he had that notion
Plago the plagiarist: Limerick Copyright© Rajat Kanti Chakrabarty 16 November 2014
Jill’s Better Batter Apple Pie
(Children Story)
Jack loved apple pie
Jill said, Oh my
It is your birthday, I’ll
Bake you a big apple pie.
For a starter Jill used
Eggs, milk, sugar and flour.
It took her one hour
She tried to mixed a
Better batter ,
And in the oven it went.
Jill told Jack to invite
Some friends.
Jack invited Humpty Dumpty.
Willie Winkie, and Diddle Diddle
Who brought his fiddle.
Jill invited Sally and little
Miss Muffet. She was dancing
With Jack and Willie Winkie
Who was sweating and
Smelled stinky.
Rub a dub the whole apple pie
They gabbled up.
Jack did wash all the dishes
And Jill gave him three
Birthday kisses.
Erich J. Goller
Copyright 8.10.2011
Grind the beans and start the pot.
Listen to it percolating - Smell
Drifting into the kitchen, ahhhh.
Patiently waiting to wake up, hot
Steaming brew. Milk, sugar in cup.
Two morning drinks. Afternoon, a
Little libation, eases into the head.
Bingo - Coffee, Kahula, Brandy,
Whipped cream. Yummy, just right.
When I was working, I would drink
My coffee from morning until night.
Amidst the clove of reality and elation,
Lust, of incandescent sensation
Breathing taste into stomach and mind,
Odor, desire, all refined
Steam ascending like a creeping mist,
The smoldering heat shall not desist
Dissolving white, Mmm! flavor endowed,
Slithering upon the brownish origin’s cloud
Then the sweetness, a tap of infallibility,
Adding more flavor, hence tranquility
“Herbally” speaking, the odorous touch,
Finally convenes to create One and no such
Tea of Hayle, art to sculpt,
Tea, milk, sugar, and Hayle in cup…
Hayle: Arabic word for Cardamon
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