I Like to Brew Tea

I Like to Brew Tea

I have clay pots

no irons currently

I buy buds to sip

sipping deeply

green puer tea

Silver Needle (White)

Mo Gan Huang Ya (Yellow)

Li Li Xiang (Anxi Ooling)

Yin Hao Jasmine (Scented)

Premium Qimen (Black)

Home Store Loose Puer

I have clay pots

no irons currently

I like to brew tea

sipping deeply 

Submitted to Poets United Poetry Pantry.

What if

What If

I dream about all 

things I would do

differently

I accept

my choices

the things

I didn't do

differently

Sadness

Sadness

Sometimes dense

cutting into asiago

Sometimes webs

to claw through

Sometimes escape

curl up in sheets 

Sometimes tears flow

unstoppable 

Sometimes screams

shriek terrifyingly 

Sometimes there seems

no end to sadness

Clean Slate

Clean Slate

Hard to do

wipe the screen clean

screen’s are porous

things are always

getting stuck

hard to do

Have to get out hose

brush the screen

while wetting it

Slate is much easier 

Born

Tangent we arc

point against one

flame the another

nothing is logical

everything surprises

ice stars strewn

across the sky reflect

against black creek 

the heads did pop

fighting they knead

through the shells

the mother did 

deliver the eggs

Christmas Past

Christmas Past

I sight nesting

great blue bird

lifts me up from

Christmas past

takes me soaring

over land and sea

thrilled nesting

Christmas

Christmas

Art project

I select the signs

that ring true for me

what I want

to put on my tree

I received many gifts

over the years from

those who know me

ornaments

to put on my tree

My tree will come 

down soon packed

unless I let it grow

dust glazing ornaments

I must let Christmas go

The music packed away

only began to listen to

Handel’s Messiah to take

me to a perfect ending

the music squelched

Now I’m off to sleep

hear music in my dreams

music that will take me deep

I hope for Handel’s Messiah

perfect Christmas circle