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Friday, November 28, 2008

Poetry Friday: On the Spot Haiku, Tea Flower

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Tea Flower

Pale tea leaves unfurl
and reach through warm water like
a hand in friendship.

Lorie Ann Grover, 2008
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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 28, 2008 at 10:01 AM

    I love that image. And it makes me think of the warm glow you get in your belly, both drinking a cup of tea and connecting with a friend.

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  2. tanita✿davisNovember 28, 2008 at 11:06 AM

    Oh, I LOVE those tea flower ball thingies. The tea is usually ...unfamiliar, to say the least, but the flowering is so gradual and gorgeous -- it makes an adventure out of the mundane. I love you take on it.

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  3. Andromeda JazmonNovember 28, 2008 at 5:31 PM

    You are so right - the warmth of the tea and the warmth of hands in friendship. Great connection!

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  4. Little WillowNovember 29, 2008 at 6:05 PM

    Pretty flower, pretty poem. I'd never seen a tea flower before.

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  5. Justina ChenDecember 1, 2008 at 12:51 AM

    Beautiful poem by a beautiful poet. I will take your hand in friendship any time--it is an HONOR.

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  6. Lorie Ann GroverDecember 2, 2008 at 3:34 PM

    Thanks to you each! Reading your responses was like a warm cuppa. xox

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  7. laurasalasDecember 3, 2008 at 8:49 AM

    I've never seen this before. Cool! Lovely analogy in your haiku.

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  8. Beth KephartDecember 6, 2008 at 3:42 AM

    This is so perfect, Lorie Ann. I brought one of these to the daughter of one who had lost her mother not long ago. There were five of us in her kitchen that day, and when the tea flower bloomed, it was precisely as you say.

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  9. singapore floristJanuary 25, 2011 at 7:26 PM

    nice poem and photograph.

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