{"id":93,"date":"2019-10-17T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/17\/a-poem-for-thursday-53\/"},"modified":"2020-10-26T21:05:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T21:05:56","slug":"a-poem-for-thursday-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/17\/a-poem-for-thursday-53\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for a Thursday #53"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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I do love tea. It is comforting, refreshing, soothing, stress-relieving, and just plain delicious. In this poem, the love for tea and the love for a person are combined.<\/p>\n

I like pouring your tea, lifting<\/i>
\nthe heavy pot, and tipping it up,<\/i>
\nso the fragrant liquid streams in your china cup.<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\nOr when you’re away, or at work,<\/i>
\nI like to think of your cupped hands as you sip,<\/i>
\nas you sip, of the faint half-smile of your lips.<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\nI like the questions – sugar? – milk? –<\/i>
\nand the answers I don’t know by heart, yet<\/i>
\nfor I see your soul in your eyes and I forget.<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\nJasmine, Gunpowder, Assam, Earl Grey, Ceylon,<\/i>
\nI love tea’s names. Which tea would you like? I say<\/i>
\nbut it’s any tea for you, please, any time of day,<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\nas the women harvest the slopes<\/i>
\nfor the sweetest leaves, on Mount Wu-Yi,<\/i>
\nand I am your lover, smitten, straining your tea.\u00a0<\/i>
\n
\n<\/i>
\nTea<\/i>
\nCarol AnnDuffy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo by\u00a0Nashad Abdu\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash I do love tea. It is comforting, refreshing, soothing, stress-relieving, and just plain delicious. In this poem, the love for tea and the love for a person are combined. I like pouring your tea, lifting the heavy pot, and tipping it up, so the fragrant liquid streams in your china cup. Or when you’re away, or at work, I like to think of your cupped hands as you sip, as you sip, of the faint half-smile of your lips. I like the questions – sugar? – milk? – and the answers I don’t know by heart, yet for I see your soul in your eyes and I forget. Jasmine, Gunpowder, Assam, Earl Grey, Ceylon, I love tea’s names. Which tea would you like? I say but it’s any tea for you, please, any time of day, as the women harvest the slopes for the sweetest leaves, on Mount Wu-Yi, and I am your lover, smitten, straining your tea.\u00a0 Tea Carol AnnDuffy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem-for-a-thursday"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/2552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}