FIRST CUP OF TEA

Scientists have x-rayed a handwritten original copy of Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare and found this remarkable edit by the Bard. ☕

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

 ̶O̶r̶ ̶s̶h̶a̶l̶l̶ ̶I̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶d̶r̶i̶n̶k̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶e̶ ̶d̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶a̶ ̶t̶h̶r̶i̶c̶e̶?̶

Thou art more lovely and more temperate

HAIKU

Sunday's precious gift

Is crumpled duvet lie-ins

Shared with crumbs of toast.

HAIKU

A single wren sings

With its tiny machine gun

Spraying the morning.

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The Great Escape - and no Steve McQueen or motorbike needed. ☕

HAIKU

Haiku's are fleeting

A ripe, hidden blackberry 

Picked to perfection.

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I wait for the stirred cuppa's tiny whirlpool fade to a mill pond - now it's fully ready to sup. ☕

HAIKU

Beginners Haiku:

Take seventeen syllables,

Mould them from word clay.

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The hug

From the

Very first glug.

HAIKU

The haiku drift mines

Where we rummage for meaning

From discarded words.

HAIKU

The blinds are still drawn

Monday may not be out there:

Schrödinger's Monday.

HAIKU

Sunday is comfort

An oasis of silence

To rest a short while

HAIKU

We are now between

The tick and tock of summer's

Universal clock.

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Ritual and ceremony amid the slurping. ☕

HAIKU

Haikus? Tiny homes.

Compact and bijou. Offers

Around seventeen.

HAIKU

Language lays buried

In everyday shallow graves:

Words left unspoken.

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Another love letter to the soul. ☕

HAIKU

A solar eclipse 

Is where the sun's having fun

Playing Peek-a-boo.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

HAIKU

In search of lost time

I stumble upon a scent

Of freshly mown grass.

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Water, an essential part of the cuppa, was formed via hydrogen, produced at the time of the Big Bang, and oxygen, from the heart of an exploding supernova - that concludes today's lesson from the Open Universitea. ☕

HAIKU

Yesterday's footprints, 

Lost rhymes to the tide, we stride

Towards tomorrow.

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To slightly misquote Brian Clough - "I wouldn't say this is the best cup of tea of the day. But it's in the top one." ☕

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The garden fence over which we gossip with imagination. ☕

HAIKU

Sunday knows the rules

It whispers its arrival 

And leaves me alone.

HAIKU

Crows call me awake

The Harbour Masters of dawn

Docking nascent light.

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I 

carefully 

          pour

               it out

                 but 

invariably 

some of

of it 

                           gets spilled. ☕