(Wendy Cabell, published in Writers At Play Presents: Our Legacy, edited by Daisy Barrett-Nash, Equal Arts, 2022. From May 21, 2021, feast day of the above Tenderness Icon of the Mother of God from the Pskov Caves, and of Saints Constantine and Helen, and Saint Isberga. On the Jewish calendar it is 19 Sivan, when (in 1849) Wolf Wissotzky established Wissotzky Tea, the leading tea company in Israel. Image from here.)
Third Cup
The first time you share tea... you are a stranger.
The second time you take tea, you are an honored guest.
The third time you share a cup of tea, you become family.
--Greg Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea
Warm belly here,
purring cat. Yet
it comforts not
over and around
the flash and the loud.
Or take this cup,
swirl of tea:
its treasure of taste,
hidden in haste,
over and around
the flash and the loud.
Till softened mind,
sheds light kind
on all we simply touch--
to swoosh,
right over and around,
the flash and the loud.
*From prompt: offer life advice in the form of a bop poem, from Daisy Barrett-Nash's Legacy Poetry, May 19, 2021.
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