Rex Tyler's Poetry Blog

Britain a nation of tea drinking, seemingly
Buying from super stores
Mostly these days
Whole leaf apparently
Has gone out the window
It’s fannings and tea dust
That most people see
It’s all about profit
And making the margin
It’s all about tea bags
And colour and taste
Remembering how tea was
First drunk, it’s awful
Hot water and tea leaves
A Flavoursome brew
Now supermarkets are
Pushing out garbage
It’s all about price
Alas that is true

All the main brands
Are increasing the fannings
Only the specialist brewing
We see
Whole leaf and plastic free tea bags
It’s sad
But this is whatsvhappening
Apparently

Tea gardens use some really
Bad chemicals pesticide residues
They can be high
PFA’s in tea bags plastics alas
It’s all about margins
I ask myself why

People allow themselves
To be mistreated
Yes down to price
And each cuppa alas
Is serving up crap in a cup
If you ask me
And truthfully now
This happens en masse

Biodynamics is out there
Darjeeling teas
Silver tips and the rest
Beautiful safe growing
Surrounded by jungle
Steiner’s true principles
Nature intact
Herbals and whole leaves
Neem trees and wild flowers
And organic pasture
An honourable fact

Pay a bit more
For a true tea a specialist
Who care for their soil
And the workers who be
Alive to the fact
That it’s a wonderful world
Where natures abounds
And organically
Grown to really the highest sod standards
Worth every penny
Worth every cent
Honestly folks

From Hampstead and Makaibari

Having visited and stayed there I saw with my own eyes
That so many of the plantations are very poorly
Looked after rubbish is dumped on them
The jungle has gone and chemicals are the mainstay
Of production
Neem trees grow wild but have been chopped down wild flowers grow in abundance but have been pulled up

Biodynamics is a paradise of true nature butterflies and birds in abundance

The workforce are taken advantage of they follow the biodynamic principles to a tee