Thanks Frank. Again I understand but as I said to Sue who picked up on
something similar, I felt I needed to stop before the actual ceremony,
partly the description wouldn't add anything and the ceremony is, if you
know what I mean. Sorry it sounds a little high faluting.



bw
James





>From: Frank Faust <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: New sub: Entry To The Tea-Room
>Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 11:40:17 +1000
>
>Hi James,
>
>I like this, but feels it needs another line or two for a proper ending -
>soemthing about taking the first sip of tea - to complete the story of the
>ritual?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Frank
>
>
> > No, I don't go as far back as Lyons tes shops. This is on one of the
> > Japanese Ways that go back three hundred years or so.
> >
> > ENTRY TO THE TEA-ROOM
> >
> > Bent low
> > I slide into the tea-room,
> > move carefully towards the alcove
> > in a corner;
> > lower to my knees, bow fully before it on the floor
> > and meditate on the ikebana there.
> >
> > In the slender ceramic vase
> > sprouts a branch abundant with red berries
> > against a copper foliage
> > sprinkled with pearls of dew.
> >
> > After another, slighter bow,
> > I take my place beside
> > the guest who entered before me.
> >
> > We all sit on four and a half
> > tatami mats,
> > backs to the shoji
> > that close the tea-room off
> > from the garden.
> >
> >
> >
> > bw
> > James
> >
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