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August 4, 2014

making tea by kilkegard invites you to sip on a metaphor made more powerful by ambiguity: is the voice describing tea or its own lost love?

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kilkegard

Published: May 4, 2014

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in a warmed pot
hot water and tea leaves
meet in an intimate embrace
pleased by the tea leaves' attentions
the water becomes a sweet golden nectar
but the water is a cruel lover
and she turns bitter if held too long
so the tea leaves are left behind
tired and used, forgotten
the water has taken what she wants

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This really did start as a nice pleasant couple of words about how soothing and relaxing it is to make tea (its preparation a ritual, its consumption a sacrament)... two verses each structured like a haiku. Then this happened.