Temple Gates

A piece from a sequence based on Helen Ivory's How to make a pot of tea. A number of poems that uses a single phrase from the original to create...

Hubble Bubble
You climb from the bowl
And say thank you
_____To the teapot

Bubbling along…

In his palace
All pink and purple
A maharajah’s working hard

His fire alive
He blows smoke
Up the chimney

It trails away…

You breathe it in
Exquisitely comfortable
On silk divans

And clouds of Darjeeling
Carry you on elephants
______Across the room.