Tea by Candlelight

The weather warms and beckons me outdoors.

Both tea and flowers are my delight.

The moonlight is rising into the sky.

Candles lite, it is time for tea.

A dreamer is one

who can only find her way by moonlight.

~Oscar Wilde

 So moonlight it is!

 The Way of Tea:

Follow it, and ever deeper it goes;

Like the field of Musashi

Where the moon is limpid,

With depths that draw us onwards.

~ Rikansai

So the moon creates the ambiance,

tea beckons by candlelight.

Come sit awhile and sip with me.

Poetry we read.

The night is young,

the birds quiet in the evening light,

and now we smile with satisfied delight.

Happy weekend, dear friends!

Go out and find the moon,

sit awhile for spring is here.