Cloud Mist Tea

Lauren Zorn
Cloud Mist Tea by Lauren Zorn

Cloud Mist Tea

Snow Water
by Michael Longley

A fastidious brewer of tea, a tea
Connoisseur as well as a poet,
I modestly request on my sixtieth
Birthday a gift of snow water.

Tea steam and ink stains. Single-
Mindedly I scald my tea pot and
Measure out some Silver Needles Tea,
Enough for a second seeping.

Other favourites include Clear
Distance and Eyebrows of Longevity
Or, from precarious mountain peaks
Cloud Mist Tea (quite delectable)

Which competent monkeys harvest
Filling their baskets with choice leaves
And bringing them down to where I wait
With my crock of snow water.

Cloud Mist Tea belongs to the following groups:

Abstract Art, Art in Math, Digital Abstracts & Patterns, Fractal Frenzy and Globes, Spheres and Curves

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