Tea in Wales

Because of gratitude—

Its calmness and the way it spread

soft smoothing over edges of my day

I’ve just remembered tea in Wales

In autumn marked by bright and dark

of thundershowers and rainbows

Expansive hills and warm close rooms

to shelter us from cold

And tea with milk that must be cream

because its butter kissed my lips

while its soft steam

enhanced the coziness

of that sweet scene

So now

Like shared discovery of magic places

A buttery warmth spreads over me

and leaves its traces

Here where I need this peace

and these bright graces

to meet the challenges
the day occasions

How bountiful this gratitude

That now avails me

of the memory

of tea in Wales.

©Wendy Mulhern

March 8, 2012