Oh look, the kettle is on the boil

He could read the seasons
especially in the fall
without drinking tea.

Reviews

[Green]

Haha, well with some of our weather the tea leaves might be as much help as anything. Don’t know about you but my weather has been having some wild swings. We were having tornados one Saturday night and 2 inches of snow by Wednesday.

[andrew mitchell]

Now that’s incredible! Thank you for stopping by.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

But I LIKE tea. (ha) I've never trusted in superstition though. Quite a few things are obvious to those who pay attention but some go through life with blinders on.

[andrew mitchell]

I’m no tea leaf reader either Fabian. Yes blinders and tunnel vision. Thank you Fabian.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

I teach this to my children at an early age. I hold up an object that is different on each side and ask the child to tell me everything about the object. Then I'll ask a question pertaining to the unseen side i.e. Is there any blue on the object? The child will answer no because it can't see any. Then I turn the object around and ask again. The child will immediately make the point that when they made their former judgement they couldn't see the other side and I explain that is how perspective and objective observation work. We have to look at all sides to come to a determination that is most like the truth but if we focus only on one side of things it makes it impossible to know the truth. It's an exercise in critical thinking I like to teach my kids.

[andrew mitchell]

Fascinating concept and I agree.

[andrew mitchell]

Yep....................

[Fabian G. Franklin]

My apologies, Andrew. Some people...

[andrew mitchell]

No worries

[Jenny Lee]

Hello, what a clever poem!
So your discernment did not require reading the tea leaves?
Am I close?
Thank you for posting such a provoking work!
I have night classes and will be thinking of this poem all night! ;)

[andrew mitchell]

Yes you got it tea leaves.Thank you very much Jenny

[Jenny Lee]

Yay! I don't usually talk that much but guess what I'd been drinking