Time pours his guests a cup of tea but the party is over before we know it.
tea
Refuge
Tea time — a brief recess from dodging life’s blowdarts.
Foggy
Like steam from a cup of hot tea that fogs our glasses, false urgency of matters at hand blurs our vision to important things in the distance.
Notoolong
We are only but guests at Time’s tea party.
Tea in bed
Tea in bed? Come on.
Good heavens! ridiculous,
What the dickens?!
blackout poetry created from Charles Dickens, letter to John Forster, 1842
Calm in a cup
Tea is a magical calming elixir — like, as if coffee had a therapist.
Tea Time
Tea brings Time to a crawl, its frantic pace resuming on noticing