Poems: Tea Parties

Tea Parties

Happy Un-birthday we grin and purr

For the present is always the real present

Drinking tea and eating bread and butter

For in Wonderland sense is irrelevant

Ravens and writing desks, riddles and puns

Friends gathered sharing feelings

Quite unmindful when Rabbit-time is begun

When dreams and cat smiles send us reeling

Sleeping and breathing and the other way round

In a dream where no girl ever turns gray

Where play, delight, and joy is forever found

And tell me truly: what did the Dormouse say?

There becoming part of each other’s stories

Even when twinkling silliness consumes you

It’s who is at the table that most matters, you see

For there it is friendship that is brewed