HAIKU

Language lays buried

In everyday shallow graves:

Words left unspoken.

FIRST CUP OF TEA

Another love letter to the soul. ☕

HAIKU

A solar eclipse 

Is where the sun's having fun

Playing Peek-a-boo.

FIRST CUP OF TEA

It doesn't solve the riddle of Monday but it gives you enough clues to crack the case. 🕵️☕

HAIKU

Here's Red Riding Hood,

Surely the least well known of

The Yorkshire Ridings.

FIRST CUP OF TEA

I recall the first time I was 'put in charge of the pot' and my tiny hands carefully spooned the tea into the teapot, giving it an eager stir- I'm like Proust when he dunked that madeleine! ☕

HAIKU

The shrill persistence 

Of the alarm on my phone

Is, oddly, tiresome.

FIRST CUP OF TEA

Goldilocksitis (noun) -  

that brief pause right before you take your first sip - an almost inexplicable movement away from your mouth - as if the liquid may be too hot. 🤔☕

HAIKU

A poet competes

In the 800 meters

But runs out of lines.

FIRST CUP OF TEA

I wish I was an octopus - I could have eight first cups of tea. 🐙☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕