Tea Poems have been written since we have been drinking tea. In classical Chinese literature, a vast body of work includes many poems dedicated to tea. You will be surprised to know that there are more than forty eight thousand surviving poems written by twenty thousand poets from the Tang dynasty alone. Tea and poetry have an inextricable link. In Japan, the poet Issa, an 18th-19th century Japanese poet from the village of Kashiwabara in the mountains of Japan’s Shinano Province wrote many tea haiku. Similarly, you can find many modern poets across the world whose subject is tea.
Here are two dozens randomly selected Tea Poems for you, written by well-known classical and modern poets.
Creme Earl Grey By L.L. Barkat
Seven Bowls of Tea By Lu Tung
Refreshment By Prince Junna
Tea Ode By Koreuji in A.D. 827
Tea Mountain By Yuan Gao
Ballad of the tea pickers By S. Wells Williams (1812-84), Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Yale.
On Tea By Edmund Waller
Tea for Two By Irving Caesar
Tea Elegy By Archbishop of Avranches Pierre Daniel Huet
Afternoon Teas By Patricia Winchester
Waking Without Alarm By Karen Paul Holmes, from Untying the Knot
Tea By Sandra Marchetti, from Confluence
Tea Haiku By Basho
The Proposal By L.L. Barkat, first appeared at Best American Poetry
Tea, No Sympathy By Maureen Doallas, author of Neruda’s Memoirs
Yunnan Red By Mark Tulin
Sprouted Oolong By Mark Tulin
Snow Jasmine By Mark Tulin
Tea Meditation By Mark Tulin
A cup of tea By American Poet Scott Michael Pinto
A Timely Cup of Tea By Shofi Ahmed
A cup of Tea By Jazlle D.H
Two girls partake of afternoon tea By Earl Schumacker
Darjeeling Green Tea By Mohsin Maqbool Elahi
Tea Poem By
Snow Water By Michael Longley
