“Tea Poems have been written since we have been drinking tea. In classical Chinese literature, a vast body of work includes many poems dedicated to tea. You will be surprised to know that there are more than forty-eight thousand surviving poems written by twenty thousand poets from the Tang dynasty alone. Tea and poetry have an inextricable link. In Japan, the poet Issa, an 18th-19th-century Japanese poet from the village of Kashiwabara in the mountains of Japan’s Shinano Province wrote many tea haiku. Similarly, you can find many modern poets across the world whose subject is tea.”
—Tea World -an initiative of KKHSOU
Read my poem, Sprouted Oolong: teaworld.kkhsou.in/poems_details.php
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I had no idea there is a whole body of poems dedicated to tea! I enjoyed yours. It captured perfectly the first few moments of taking in its fragrance, anticipating that first sip.
Thank you, Liz. Fascinating, isn’t it, how food and drink become sources of our creative writing.
Yes, particularly their ritualistic aspects.
Yes. 🙂