March 15, 2025 Online Lama Tea Offerings
From Kim:
A precious living natsume
contains a mountain of green tea.
Mist arises from this treasured gift.
Drinking in the tea space that connects all.
June 21, 2025 Online Lama Tea Offerings
From Chad:
**All moments lead here/nothing to do but make tea/ it is everything.
**Can I fold into this moment like a fukusa and open like a bowl of tea
From Tracy:
Lukewarm, I am unfolding like this fukusa. Cozy sweaty, a closet Hermit, I am abundance. Grateful for my home in times of chaos.\
From Lesley:
just being here…writing a poem…doesn’t have to rhyme… maybe something about tea…everything else moving around as it does behind the words…it’s all here..don’t have to write about it…just being here
From Kathy:
Sitting quietly, listening to the kettle come to boil, smelling the sandalwood incense, feeling the cool breeze coming through the new reed screens, I hear a green apricot plum plop on the ground. Time to make umeshu (plum wine)!
From Karen:
Not a poem – just thoughts. Just BEING (Siddiq reminds us about being with meditation); Just being HERE; Where is HERE? Thanks to Zoom, HERE is everywhere!
From Siddiq:
Desperation helps / to motivate the discipline / for repose in Tea. // That repose, sharing / with others in beauty / a healing balm.
September 20, 2025 Online Lama Tea Offerings
From Lesley:
Rowing together… with variations … Spring and Autumn … faster and slower
From Deborah:
Fast or slow, high or low, open the heart and feel the flow
From Tracy:
Oars dip quickly in
memories of my mother
water catches light
From Kathy:
“What a fine autumn day! With only a half sail she makes a smooth passage.” by Sasaki Sanmi
From Gracybelle:
Row row. Go go. Slow slow stop
See spot run. See spot row
Let’s get there then pause
Before entering the room
Or the storm
From Kay:
My boat into life, you carried me so faithfully, did I ever give you pause?
From Chad:
Row row row our boat all together down the stream, flowing between the streams
From Siddiq:
The rhythm of Tea and daily life pause for waking from somnambulance
From Sakina:
Autumn sunlight \ glitters in the water \ dripping from our oars \ I pause and my heart breaks \ with amazement