Find A Good Home For My Teas

Find a good home for my teas.
Make sure they will be gladly drunk
by people who will think of me
fondly, warming their hands
around a full mug.

I’ve had love, so much love,
pouring freely through
the dark corners of the labyrinths,

and wearing smooth
the odd-shaped cracks
that made up the mad tea party
I called my life.

I’d like to think some of that
love will come through
between the sips of tea

(maybe a few moments of laughter too)

long past the time
the warmth from it fades.


Song Choice: Earth Song by Harry Bellafonte. I've told the children this is one of the songs I absolutely want played at any sort of funeral they hold for me. 

This poem was created for the prompt given at Poets and Storytellers United, Weekly Scribblings #37: Last Messages.
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45 comments:

  1. Rosemary Nissen-WadeSeptember 15, 2020 at 8:30 AM

    Oh, that's beautiful! (And great song, too.)

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  2. Debra She Who SeeksSeptember 15, 2020 at 10:14 AM

    Lovely!

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  3. Kim M. RussellSeptember 16, 2020 at 4:21 AM

    This is so you, Rommy! I love it! I adore the lines:
    ‘…wearing smooth
    the odd-shaped cracks
    that made up the mad tea party
    I called my life.’

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    1. RommySeptember 23, 2020 at 4:43 PM

      LOL, tea and I are fairly inseparable at this point

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  4. Ron.September 16, 2020 at 8:42 AM

    Nice work, Rommy. Every sip should remind us. Thanks.

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  5. Bad Mama JamaSeptember 16, 2020 at 9:47 AM

    Interesting prompt. Lovely poem

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    1. RommySeptember 23, 2020 at 4:44 PM

      The prompt certainly gave me quite a bit to think about!

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  6. Magaly GuerreroSeptember 16, 2020 at 12:03 PM

    I believe those moments of laughter will be brewed into every cup of memory having to be with you. Even while crying, there will be Rommy-myrth. It's just natural--too many souls loved, and will continue to love, the mad party that is you.

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    1. RommySeptember 23, 2020 at 4:45 PM

      I certainly hope so. LOL, and I hope my children will honor my wish to have Groucho glasses passed out as memorial favors so that a field of Grouchos will bear witness as part of my ashes get planted with a tree.

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  7. SreejaSeptember 16, 2020 at 12:16 PM

    I’d like to think some of that
    love will come through
    between the sips of tea.............precious like a tea!

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  8. Gillena CoxSeptember 16, 2020 at 12:51 PM

    A mad tea party nice image, who or which of us have gotten to today without out a bit of fantasy

    Happy Wednesday

    Much💛love

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  9. HelenSeptember 16, 2020 at 3:25 PM

    The feel, message, preciousness of your poem is simply wonderful.

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  10. indybevSeptember 16, 2020 at 7:55 PM

    You've captured your "wild tea party" life well and tenderly, and I'm sure you'll be fondly remembered and linger long in the memories of those who come after.

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    1. RommySeptember 23, 2020 at 4:46 PM

      I do hope stories of my weirdness get told fondly

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  11. JimSeptember 17, 2020 at 10:24 AM

    Save it, Rom, its a beautiful epitaph, self written by a poetry writer.
    ..

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  12. J CSeptember 18, 2020 at 5:12 PM

    I saw this awhile ago while traveling the internet highway and thought of you. Saved it for you. Perhaps you have already seen it, but that's ok. Yours is lovely poetry.

    “If you are cold, tea will warm you;
    if you are too heated, it will cool you;
    If you are depressed, it will cheer you;
    If you are excited, it will calm you.”
    ~
    William Ewart Gladstone


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  13. Khaya RonkainenSeptember 19, 2020 at 2:08 AM

    This is so beautiful Rommy. I agree with Jim, save it. I love the idea of your loved ones reminiscing about a life well lived. And laughter in between sips is just precious.

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    1. RommySeptember 23, 2020 at 4:47 PM

      It came out better than I thought it would. Yeah, I like it!

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  14. JennaSeptember 19, 2020 at 7:37 PM

    This is lovely. <3

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  15. Old EggSeptember 20, 2020 at 3:40 AM

    What a beautiful poem this is. It is not hard to recall all the wonder, the beauty and love in ones life and to understand it's sadness too.

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  16. J Cosmo NewberySeptember 20, 2020 at 4:46 AM

    This resonates. I associate many foods with people, present and past.

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  17. scotthastiepoetSeptember 20, 2020 at 5:19 AM

    Greetings Rommy, This si lovely... I really enjoyed the way you've used drinking tea and all associated with it as a metaphor for love... And you make it work so well here.. Great idea! Wish I'd thought of it!

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  18. dsnake1September 20, 2020 at 9:11 AM

    enjoyed this tea poem! in good company too. :)

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  19. Magical Mystical TeacherSeptember 20, 2020 at 11:35 AM

    There really is something soothing about tea and the memories of cups past.

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    1. RommySeptember 23, 2020 at 4:50 PM

      I have lots of fond memories of time spent with friends having a lovely cup of tea

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  20. C. SandlinSeptember 20, 2020 at 1:31 PM

    This is lovely & the warmth breathes through it.

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  21. colleenSeptember 20, 2020 at 3:17 PM

    I love this and, as a tea lover, I relate. I like the idea of thinking of my life as a Mad Tea Party and all my belongings being tea for others to use when I'm gone.

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    1. RommySeptember 23, 2020 at 4:51 PM

      I hope that a bit of that madness comes in handy for those that enjoy it

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  22. Joel (@Stranded Tree)September 20, 2020 at 11:32 PM

    "I’ve had love, so much love,
    pouring freely through
    the dark corners of the labyrinths," - those dark hidden corners
    Am I wrong to like Earl Grey (hot)?

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    1. RommySeptember 23, 2020 at 4:52 PM

      Not at all! LOL, that's my mom's favorite. Love the STtNG reference too. :D

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  23. Nithya VenkatSeptember 24, 2020 at 9:01 AM

    Lovely, those moments between the sips of tea are the most happy and wonderful moments specially when enjoyed with your companion or a friend.

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