Tea Break

Hello Poetry Lovers

Welcome to our Poetry Tea Break. We all deserve one of these as hard-working poets!

The prolific and talented Trisha Broomfield has summed up this vital backbone-of-the-nation drink very well, and how we would do anything sometimes for a cup. And it’s a ghazal – a form in which I fall at the fence. So that makes it even more special.

Read on, it’s marvellous ….

Ghazal TEA

It’s been eight hours since my last cup of tea

I’m close to going out and buying a cup of tea

Cappuccinos, lattes, espressos will not do for me

fobbing me off with Ovaltine? I’m spying a cup of tea

my poor old body’s starved of tannin not to mention

caffeine of a certain strength, there’s no denying a cup of tea

I know you have some, I’ve heard the kettle, seen the tea cosy

hot chocolate will not do, you’re lying, you have a cup of tea

I sneak a peek in your kitchen cupboard, wrong I know

I can see the box and the caddy, I’m prying, there’ll be a cup of tea!

I see a real pot and strainer, I just need boiling water, leaves

that’s all a girl like me needs for scrying, a real cup of tea

I’m desperate, any tea, provided it’s hot and wet will do

almost, though I draw the line at herbal. I’m trying a Rooibos cup of tea.

Well that was ghastly, Rooibos doesn’t do it for me

compromising doesn’t suit, I’m still dying for a real cup of TEA!

27/07/2024Trisha Broomfield

Wasn’t that a wonderful piece, PL’s?! It really summed up how we feel most days! Thank you so much, Trisha. More please.

Oh yes, Dobby likes a cup of char too, and I know there’s a cup of tea inside all of you, Poetry Lovers, so answers on a postcard please…..

Thanks for tuning in, PL’s. We’ll be back with more poetry action real soon….