WHAT’S BREWING THERE.?

A CUP OF TEA OR A VIGOR OF THEE...

[A tribute to TEA commemorating world TEA day] 

  The second most consumed drink everywhere in entire universe, 

  After water, it thus prompts thought process to write this verse, 

  Oh! A sudden awakening, on this day, the poet getting bemused, 

  Favorite drink of the masses, now getting a recognition dignified.

  Apart from the fixed energy booster, tea serves us much more,

  Has Caffeine, amino acids that boost mental faculties for sure,

  Digging into my reserves, probed the nomenclature and more,

  Indeed it was stunning, the tiny leaves revealing much more.

  Dates back to lengthy thousand years, with a mostly Asian fable,

  The only drink expressed as a letter, ever, than a monosyllable,

  The name has many fathers, Chinese, Cantonese or the Persian, 

  Tee, cha, the chai too unfamiliar, tea or chai, the common Indian. 

  Grown in the hills with acidic soils from the seeds and cutting,

  Dozen years or less to mature, flush is ready for the picking;

  Less oxidized, partially or the fully oxidized, all three differ,

  Wilted, without oxygen forms, in white or yellow, they do appear. 

 

  Green, oxidized partially and stiff, they all occur after the pluck, 

  Flush differs, is the top few centimeters of leaves that we pick,

  Their enzymes all set up the oxidation, turning green to black, 

  Flavors on the rise, so too the antioxidants, favoring a health drink.

 Black dragon Oolong, the fully oxidized form is the pick of the lot,

 From the immortal times, it rejuvenated, mesmerized every spot, 

 Cometh the hour, cometh the man, so too comes the magic pot,

 It comes with pleasure before you, to share its day on the trot.