FIRST CUP OF TEA

Much like meeting an old friend after an absence, no words need to be exchanged, just the knowledge that you're back in safe and reliable company. ☕

FIRST CUP OF TEA

Liquidating my assets. ☕

FIRST CUP OF TEA

I dunk the teabag tentatively in the mug as if I'm a painter looking for that perfect colour on their palette. We're all searching for that perfect shade of tea. You know it when you see it. ☕😊

FIRST CUP OF TEA

The tour guide of the soul. ☕

HOPE IN HIBERNATION

Applaud the curtain call of summer 

As winter waits in silence in the wings

Autumn speaks the lines of fallen colour

In hibernation, hope eternal springs.

FIRST CUP OF TEA

Coffee may be the brash usurper

but tea is the drink for the consummate slurper. ☕

THE LOST SONG

living between

the tick

and 

the tock

we never get time

to stop and take stock

before we arrive

and after we've gone

Time's the great orchestra

Now's the lost song.

FIRST CUP OF TEA

One cup fits all. ☕

COMMON PARLANCE

Innit, though, I can't keep pace,

Is 'wicked' now so out of place? 

I hear the kids all now say 'bless'

This parlance lark, such a mess

But stop to think what all this means

Our language and its fading genes

Fashions rising-fashions sinking

'Right-on, man'-'blue-sky thinking'.

FIRST CUP OF TEA

Every day this simple cuppa makes it feel like I've discovered a new secret. ☕