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As the season takes hold, Autumn is a wonderful time to sit on the front porch with a cuppa (name your poison) and enjoy the beauty that surrounds you.
My go-to libation is a nice cup of tea. Strongly steeped and deep with flavor, the way I like it. Salada came up with a novel idea putting inspirations on their tea bag string tags. Tag lines, they were called. If you’re privy to the blend by all means, pour yourself a cup and use your tag as the basis for your poem. Make it a line, title or just be inspired by it for our poem.
Or use one of these:.
Gourmets first taste their meals with their eyes.
The best things in life aren’t things.
Checking social media at dinner makes you anti-social.
Change your thoughts and you can change the world.
Phoenix Rising Poetry Guild 
PROGRESS?
It started out with e-mailed notes, these many years ago,
and it was fun to save a stamp and watch a message flow
from place to place in record time, from Maine to Mexico.
Now Twitter and Facebook have got the nation in a rut;
they transmit everything, it seems, but let me tell you what:
it’s all convenient, that’s for sure, and often timely, but
checking social media at dinner makes you anti-social.
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How true!
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SO true!! Something I won’t do and that I detest at the table.
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Lighten Up
Mind over matter: If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. (Salada tea tag line)
What’s offensive to one
is funny to another.
A chip on the shoulder
makes enemies of brothers.
Most people mean well
when they have something to say.
Let lighten up
be your my motto today.
So let the comments of those
without any tact,
roll like water
off a duck’s back.
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Wonderful advice, wonderfully put.
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THE INTANGIBLE GIFT
The best things in life
aren’t even things at all.
The material pleasures
are at best a flash in the pan,
a chasing after the wind.
Yet the world is teeming
with them.
With the malignant joys
of it’s persistent deception.
But the intangible gifts to
humanity reside in its nature.
Love.
Love is more powerful
than every weapon on earth.
Stronger than steel,
more resilient than metal.
A great conductor of emotion,
it travels at great speed.
Spreading like the light of day;
it produces the hidden bud,
and unfurls the shy bloom
to enrich the many.
Pleasing to the eyes,
and more precious than diamond.
Its better than a gleam of silver,
or mountain range of gold.
May it’s truth be told
and may we not withhold
the greatest gift.
Love.
Benjamin Thomas
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I love your notion of love, Benjamin.
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I agree with Sara.
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Love is more powerful
than every weapon on earth.
Powerful lines here… well done!
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Thanks Hannah Hannah
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Berry Blue
a brown nutty flour cloud rises from
the green mixing bowl
pale lemon chiffon yellow bananas
blend with bright school bus yellow eggs
all folded one upon the other becoming
bland, tan, until bits of blue (berries) are
gently added – dipped, spooned into pink
and blue fluted paper packages
kissed by brown sugar lips and
tucked into the oven where magic happens
“gourmets first taste their food with their eyes”
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We think alike!
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It’s a good thing my screen is vertical, else I’d be salivating on it.
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Ha 🙂 Maybe this should be “served” with a napkin
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Magic indeed!
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Complementary Colors
I picked, “Gourmets first taste their meals with their eyes.”
Pleasing feast–
golden fried cubes of
polenta,
dark red meat
sauce paired with verdant broccoli
rabe. Let’s have a toast!
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Mmmm ……. makes my mouth water and my tummy grumble!
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Worth a raised glass, this is. Wonderful.
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Yum!!
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TAG LINE: “The best things in life aren’t things.”
Look around you.
It may astound you to know
that we have everything we need
to live a life without greed or avarice
or malice towards one another.
Because all that matters are the sisters
and brothers whom we have touched.
Or have touched us. We waste a lot
of time and resources on materials,
when caring for each other returns much
more than we’d invested. Change you attitudes
and Direct your platitudes at the best of mankind.
You will find that the best things in life aren’t things.
(C) Walter J. Wojtanik, 2015
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Spot on!
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I agree! I think we really do have everything we need…
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[…] Rising – TEA TIME / TAG LINES – use your tag (tea bag quotes) as the basis for your poem. Make it a line, title or just be […]
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I have a whole tine of these saved for just such a challenge…I used the one that came to mind first though. Thank you, Walt!
https://wordrustling.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/the-nautical-life/
I’ll be back to read, poetic friends…it’s late and I have work tomorrow…
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What a noble piece, so full of exquisite and thoughtful imagery. A special favorite phrase, for me, is “… ride eddy-spiral for a while.”
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Thank you, William and I’m so grateful for your specificity on that line! 🙂
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