Days for sipping [Day 50]

in poem •  7 years ago  (edited)

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Days for sipping


     Some days
                            are languid tisanes,
                              fine-ground;
                         brewed in a mason jar.
Since I do not have a sieve,
                       I wait in between
                             agitations
for the sediment to settle.

                            Frothless,
careful, pouring with a cloth barrier.
  Some days
                       patience must be conjured,
                              to avoid a scalded tongue.
I sit and wait
                          for the cup to cool.
Some days
                      mustn't be gulped,
                                but only sipped.


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Written by
@d-pend
4/25/18
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Photography by

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1 — "Chrysanthemum Tea 1" by Triskdaemon
2 — "Tisane" by WandererinWonderland
3 — "Still Life with Tea II" by Kashuarashi

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I tend to gulp most of mine like high-caffeine energy drinks ;) It's always nice to have ones that are not only slow, but feel meaningfully slow - as in not wasted despite their pace.

This piece expresses it in just the right way. The lines sliding over each other they are so languid, each carefully savoured before moving on to the next. Form and subject in perfect harmony!

A common question asked by Taoists is do you have the patience to wait for your tea to boil or in your case to cool. Patience is over-rated, however, it means you are not in the present moment. The tea is beautiful; admire it for its color and its smell. for its heat if it is a cold day, or simply clear the mind and think of nothing.

Your poem is zen-ful. Thank you:)

Love love love I've missed your poems!!! I love this one I can always count on you to give me inspiration to write , happy day!❤️

It's quite narrative, I love the sifting process how it was thoroughly explained in a poetic manner, it's a free verse, sweetly irregular in the stanzaic arrangements, it's beautiful buddy. It's been a while

And here I thought your metaphor was coffee until the pictures told me it was tea ;)

Yes @d-pend. I'm not going to gulp that contraption. Right now I would like a sip. Did you get a sore throat?

Good peom

blowfish and manatees

Hello @d-pend, how are you?
Your poem never changes, it always produces beautiful works. Your soul is already integrated with the words of poetry, so that every word you write, can always penetrate into the souls of those who read it. Hope you have a wonderful day... :)

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Don't overuse that word you might end up inside a painting.

^_^

It is a good thing I actually found some self related metaphors even if your idea maybe was not to be metaphoric here, but all in all I appreciate the design and words next to each other.

Short and beautiful!

@d-pend
reading poetry is my daily life

your point ?

Thanks you @tygertyger

you are thanking me for asking you a question about what your point was? does that make sense to you?

So nice poem
All sentence are meaningful
Thanks for sharing

what a nice moustache

It always a wonderful work when it comes to @d-pend's work.
Nice poetry beautiful and stylist and fed with enough images, it cool.

#Patience must be conjured,#
That a good thought to hold!

please define enough images?

image: is a literary device consisting of descriptive language that can function as a way for the reader to better imagine the world of the piece of literature.

enough images; is a phrase describing the sufficiency of the images in the work.

So again some indepth work of word....fantasitically drafted👍

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