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Heavenly Tea

Neil McLeod

Heavenly Tea
My mother, God bless her, who has now passed on, would unconsciously sip tea from which ever cup was closest to her.

We thought about Mama this morning.
My dear wife had drained her first cup,
And wondered allowed if she actually had.
I said, "Yes! Unless Mama turned up."

Ah yes, she remembered my mother,
Who would sip from the first cup to hand,
Diminishing each of all cupfuls
Not realizing - you understand.

She wondered, "If tea's served in Heaven?"
The answer - well none here have known,
But if they do I can sure tell you,
My Mama will be right at home.
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Submitted by NeilMcLeod on October 10, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XA XBXB ACXC XXXX
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 562
Words 110
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 4, 4, 4
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Neil McLeod

 · 1947 · Oxford

Born in Oxford, raised in Kenya, past winner of Los Slamgeles Poetry Slam and author of abitingchance.blogspot.comand "The First Thanksgiving".Doctor McLeod is a performing poet who has recited at Highland Games, dinners and Burns Nights for the last 44 years. He is happily married, lives and works in Los Angeles,has three children, and practices as a dentist on Wilshire Boulevard:http://www.drneilmcleod.com/He can be contacted by e-mail at drneilmcleod@yahoo.com and will willingly entertain requests to share his work with permission. more…

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