Best Afternoon Tea Poems

Afternoon tea at three, oh what a delight
The table was set  - it was an incredible sight
Laden with sandwiches, cakes and tea
What a fantastic treat this was going to be

We tucked in with relish, each mouthful a treat
Deciding which delicious food we should eat
Sandwiches...

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Have a cup of tea
Invite who you may in
Provide some cake as well
Stored in that Christmas tin

An afternoon well spent
Some friends around for tea
Sharing the worries and joys
Not even costing a fee

How the time’s gone
Where the company’s so sweet
The last thing to remember
A time again...

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Whatever happened
To afternoon tea
Served around four o-clock
It used to be a daily ceremony

Out came a pretty cloth
From an old sideboard drawer
To put on a small table
Used many times before

On to this table
Doylies and napkins placed
Precisely and carefully
There was no need to race

Then came the china
A...

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My 
Two
Dearest
Friends 
and me 
Shared a scrumptious
Afternoon Tea
of 
Sandwiches
Scones
Cakes
and Cream
a more delicious tea
we had ne’er seen
So much there to eat
at this afternoon treat
Washed down 
with a nice cup of tea
An English tradition you see
           ...

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Sitting here stirring my afternoon tea. Earl Grey is my favourite, so that it must be. 
With the fragrance of Bergamot filling the air, recollections at Grandma's house take me right there. 
She'd brew up a pot, serve cookies and cake, or sometimes a Cadbury's...

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Assuaging our thirst drives us in from the street,
shoppping fatigued; a welcome retreat
as a menu of delights rewards us with tea,
Black Yunnan for you and Silver Tips for me. 

Smooth liquid sunshine kisses Ruby Woo lips,
puckered to perfection; taking delicate sips,
savouring the euphotic zone where...

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Milly and Jilly played afternoon tea
With delicious cakes and fine pottery
Both looked pretty with flowers in their hair
And faces aglow, such a happy pair.

They drank all the tea and ate all the cakes
Not a crumb was left, they had cleared their plates
Happily they sang their...

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Strains of chamber music fill the air
                  Invited guests have come to share,

               ...

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Balloons can be rolled like balls in halls. But only halls that measure over sixty feet in diameter would ever please a pamplemoose. Pample mooses are appetisers in buffets so they must all run and hide in the cave now. And they can take that...

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It was a day of jubilation when
The alligators came to tea
Though I didn’t quite like
The way they looked at me
A Jungle Jazz Combo played
Do Wap free and loose
As we all celebrated the day
Of the  inter species truce.

The chimps played the brass
A gorilla sang deep...

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Ms. Ogre Moose was happy to come to afternoon tea
She enjoyed Victorian Vicky who was lovely to see.
They did not speak the same language but got along fine
Laughing at their men who were silly on cranberry wine.

It’s a great day for a walk, Ms. Ogre...

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I do desire we may be better strangers.
— As You Like It, Act 3 Scene 2, Line 254; Orlando to Jacques

She called it venting; 
I called it theater. 
On a loop, it was non-stop tragedy 
with no intermission. 

When I spoke of my dreams, 
she'd...

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