Augury
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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
When the Pilot Arrives
...the pilot arrives
When the world was big, and my ship left Trinidad just
as the sun set over the blue Caribbean and women, at the dockside waved goodbye forever, or perhaps not, if the ship retu...
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Categories:
tea leaf, 11th grade, absence, betrayal,
Form: Blank 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
Tea Party a Deadly Frankenstein Gathering-
...Cheerio old chap!
O’ mighty Prometheus
Invited to this a tea party
Alas this ole social gathering
Frankenstein and his closest friends
There on the table
A vast variety of wolf cake...
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Categories:
tea leaf, abuse, adventure, analogy, betrayal,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Significance of Table 8
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Over a spooning cup of long dead coffee,
which; isn’t cutting it anymore, I look across the bay,
under the wings of a seabird, and imagine all
count-less names, over the years, written in sho...
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Categories:
tea leaf, image,
Form: Free verse
Fortune Teller Medium Tea Leaf Card Reader
...I don't exactly know the how or why
I can't even explain it
But i have or was given a gift
I am a fortune teller / medium
I can read card's
Decipher tea leaves
Predict and tell the fu...
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Categories:
tea leaf, slam,
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
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
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
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
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 to be your friend
Your a soldier in the army of God
Cool Moe B in th...
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Categories:
tea leaf, addiction, africa, black african
Form: Free verse
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
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
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
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
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