These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

A Cup of Tea

Some days a cup of tea is all
I can do or can write.
The world's much faster now. It's call
demands a quicker sight.

Just sipping Orange and Cinnamon Spice
can slow the pace a bit.
A restful moment, sweetly nice,
that helps me as I sit.

This rooibus, gentle, herbal tea,
a gift to longish thoughts.
My heart can slow, some peace to free,
this quietness it brought.

The twinkle lights, the shady hush,
such contemplation rare,
first finger makes the anxious shush
to drop from hands the care.

Aromas of blest Christmas time,
reprieve from summer's heat.
Now swaddled in some Joy sublime,
I hope new life to greet.

by Jay O’Toole
on June 26th, 2025