Tea Leaf Readings

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“Unfolding in the wet warmth, spreading out, becoming a shade deeper red as they open up, growing larger, releasing their individual aromas, spreading it around, love wafting in the air ~ as the tea steams up,  the leaves uncurl, unfurl.”
Pic & Prose ~ Purvi Petal 18Oct©2015 
Do not repost either pic or prose. Copyright protected @puplumage

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WARMTH: Excerpt* – ‘Burnt Scraps Of Paper’

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On a day far removed from warmth, any body heat shared per chance is more than welcome. From one’s shirt to another’s wearing, from a given up seat to another butt’s grabbing, from one’s removed glove to another’s needy hand and from a loving hand that irons to emanate warmth to a shivering shoulder, from one hug to another, warmth is all we seek greedily and pass on unknowingly.
What if there was a charge to it like the electric wires that coil in our houses and offices? Both literally and figuratively? Of course we would shy away from it, even when in dire need.

And that is what is happening these days. A negative current runs through our relations, shocking us by running surplus, charging us exorbitantly. We have to yank our hands away, pulling ourselves off any warmth, staying cold, trying to warm our hands from common hearths, standing at a distance. All we get is an illusory impression of heat received and sent, but in reality and effectuality depleting us of our emotional and mental energies, our thermal heat turning to latent and evaporating away.

~ Purvi Petal © , 7 Jan 2015

*An update excerpt from unpublished (in the process of being written) but copyrighted ‘Burnt Scraps Of Paper’.

The Sun still dials my number ! ;):)

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The sun dialled my number

and called up at night

Told me in a  confessional code

’twas tired of shining so bright

   

Needed a break He desperately

wanted to hide in hay

sinking and rising was part of life

now he just wanted to stay away

 

seeking covers of clouds for shelter

often led him scattered helter-skelter

He wanted now a permanent recluse

Too tired, exhausted, he felt abused.

He too was a star he said

he wanted to twinkle at night

lost amongst a crowd of sparkles

he would share his light

Forgotten has He

That night turns to day only

When a star smiles wide

replenishing, rejuvenating life.

Today a flower called Hope

is asking the sun for his warmth

The flower needs to smile

It is only the sun that can

make it bloom for a while

Is the Sun wllling to dry

the mist that envelpos him

And share his awesome rays

Shedding his inhibitions some ?