I can’t go to tea parties, because all the other cups are afraid of the dragon that trails around my saucer. I can’t leave the saucer at home because we’re a pair.
We’ve been in the dining room cabinet for years, looking through the glass at the family, which is now down to two old people.
Today, though, she has all the acceptable cups packed for the next tea party.
She needs a small one for her green tea, so she chooses me.
When she drinks the last drop she sees, inside my golden-rod colored bowl, tiny runnels of paint.
“This cup and saucer is a second!” she cries.
I whisper…no, there’s no such thing as a second, only unique treasures that want to be used.
DiVoran Lites is the author of the Florida Springs Trilogy, which includes Sacred Spring, Book one, Living Spring, Book two, and Clear Spring, book three. Her stand alone novel, Go West,is a sweet western romance set in the post WWI era in Colorado. DiVoran loves to read poetry and delights in writing it too. Born in Nevada, she grew up in Colorado and New Mexico. She and her husband, Bill, along with their young children moved to Florida in 1965 to participate in the Space program. Their house backs on a nature sanctuary, and DiVoran enjoys daily walks through the beautiful Florida woods on a trail.
DIVoran is also part of a group blog, Old Things R New, where she shares poetry, paintings and memories.
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2 thoughts on “The Dragon Cup and Saucer”
I can’t believe you haven’t shown me this cup. It’s lovely.
I can’t believe you haven’t shown me this cup. It’s lovely.
What a wonderful poem, DiVoran! More! More!