On New Year’s Day, six poets gathered at Issoan Tea Room to compose linked verse poetry, share incense, food, sweets, tea, and fellowship. This year’s poem below.
Gathering of friends Tea, food, incense Fellowship Fresh year Hatsu uta (first poem)
Hatsu uta breathless silence birds welcome the new day horizon faintly glows life begins anew
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Happy New Year from Issoan Tea. This morning we met for the 5th annual poetry gathering at Issoan. It is always a popular event as we visit, talk, share incense, potluck food, and sweets and tea over the course of 4 hours as we compose a poem for the year. This year we had 8 …
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Happy New Year to all my tea friends. I hope the year of the tiger brings you everything you could wish for.
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A new year dawns and the students at Issoan gathered for the 2nd annual poetry gathering. Because of social distancing, we met over zoom and composed 36 verses in a modified linked verse format. Each verse is a 5 line poem based on the link theme. The last line of the previous poem becomes the …
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Four poets gathered at Issoan on New Year’s Day 2020. It was a day filled with poetry, food, tea, sweets and incense. Each poet in turn composed a stanza of linked verse to complete a poem of 24 links.
The format of the poem was a list of 24 topics dedicated to the four seasons. …
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