<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=453824" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Cup Of Tea</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">That fusion of spices<br>Lemon grass, what I know as mchaichai<br>And ginger.<br>Makes me travel, <br>To a land far away<br>Across mountains and seas.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To a land<br>Where the soil is brown, <br>Like milk chocolate, <br>And the beaches white.<br>Where the people smile not frown.<br>Stretched out savannah<br>With animals of all colour, <br>And a mountain that peaks over Africa<br>Topped with glittering glaciers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But as those spices<br>Bubble in my teacup, <br>I don't see tourist attractions</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Instead I sit <br>At a crooked wooden table<br>With my knees to the side, <br>Glancing at a grassy roundabout<br>That you made oval, <br>In a kitchen<br>Still undone, <br>With eyes barely open<br>After being, shocked awake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I hear the birds<br>Whistling wisdom.<br>I hear voices, <br>As one looks for their schoolbag, <br>Another runs to brush their teeth, <br>Papa starts his motorcycle<br>A woman enters to sell bananas<br>Mama walks through the garden<br>Plating this, <br>Pulling that, <br>As I sit sipping tea<br>With lemongrass and ginger</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Until the tea is gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then it all fades.<br>The voices and the chaos.<br>The roundabout which's oval.<br>The kitchen undone.<br>I return to my longing<br>To be back<br>In a land, <br>That I call home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mariam+de+Haan">Mariam de Haan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=453824" data-title="A Cup Of Tea de Mariam de Haan" data-description="That fusion of spices Lemon grass, what I know as mchaichai And ginger. Makes me travel, To a land far away Across mountains and seas. To a land Where the soil is brown, Like milk chocolate, And the beaches white. Where the people smile not fr..."></div> </div> </div>

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