Conversation Hearts and Granny: A Sweet, Sweet Contest
By April on Feb 9 Filed In Blog Love, Sweet Contests 66 Comments
It’s the time of year when the pink and red decorations come out and love feels like it’s bursting from the seams. Doesn’t it just make you thirsty?
Well, we know how much all of you love Sweet Leaf Tea and contests, so we’re offering you a chance to show it by writing a little haiku about your feelings for some Homemade Goodness in a Bottle.
Background: Haiku is a traditional form of Japanese poetry. Haiku poems consist of 3 lines. The first and last lines of a Haiku have 5 syllables and the middle line has 7. The lines rarely rhyme. Example by yours truly:
Valentines day tea
Minty fresh or lemon yo
it’s sweet and good.
(I’m willing to bet that your haiku will be much better than mine and personally, I endorse this challenge.)
Rules: Post your tea-infused haiku in the comments section of this blog post between February 9th and February 14th and we’ll announce the lovely winner on Tuesday February 15th. We decided to give you a little longer than originally planned because there is always a chance that you’ll get hit by Cupid’s arrow and start feeling all lovey-dovey and inspired to write sweet, sweet poetry about your favorite beverage.
Great, but what do I win? I’m glad you asked! Besides a delicious 6-pack of uber-romantic, Raspberry Tea (OR your favorite flavor), Our friends at @WholeFoodsATX have offered to sweeten the deal by sharing some Whole Foods Market Organic Chocolate Truffles, massage stones from HimalaRose, and massage oil and body lotion from HUGO Naturals. Does it get much better than sweet tea, chocolate, and massage goodies? I think not and I’m slightly jealous of the winner!
So crack open a bottle of your favorite tea and the let the love feel your belly and your soul. Surely that will inspire a gem of a haiku.
Raspberry Iced Tea,
best way to end cool day,
or start steamy night.
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5 7 5
driven thirst for tea
Brewed by grannies own hand
snap sip refreshment
I open my fridge –
Mint and Honey Sweet Leaf Tea
smiles and beckons me.
YUM!!
Sweet Valentines Day
Your As Sweet As My Sweet Tea
Perfect My SweetTEA.
Sweet Leaf Rasberry
It is wholesome and yummy
I want to have more!
All I need is love
And my Diet Sweet Leaf Tea
on Valentines Day
Take my thirst away
sweetness of citrus green tea
drinking with passion
One arm holds my love,
My hand grasps Granny’s Sweet Leaf.
I am spilling bliss.
Organic citrus…
You make my heart a-flutter.
And my taste buds, too.
To be the best mom,
Loved beyond Valentine’s Day,
I bring Lemonade.
I’m Loving the Bike
Love the sweet taste of your tea
Each day of the year
Sweet tea infusion.
My burning thirst, peach quenched wave.
Smacks me across cheek.
Pure, Raspberry Tea
Correct from Sweet-Leaf that is
Nothing is alike
February 14th
Profess your love for someone
I love Sweet Leaf Tea
Infatuation
Found my Valentine at last
Be mine, Sweet Lea Tea
Infatuation
Found my Valentine at last
Be mine, Sweet Leaf Tea
Cupid’s cup is full
Tea for two on the menu
Sweet love at first sip
(this is really a senryu because it doesn’t have anything to do with nature, but follows the same structure as a haiku)
the hot heat seduced
love and i to lucious bliss
tea bottle and fiddle
Tickle my tummy
Oh you sweet mint and honey
Green tea for the win
Tweet go the love birds
As I sip tasty tea
On my balcony
Valentines are sweet
And I do believe they are
Sweet Leaf’s won my heart!
Steeping tea leaves wait-
As impatiently as I-
For my lover’s kiss
Between us, it brews,
as the steeping tea leaves do:
caffeinated love.
Oh Mint & Honey:
I found you this morning at Whole Foods…
What a sweet delight!
crackling tea leaves
submerged in a warm embrace
flavor, scents released
Titos and Sweet Leaf.
Oh, what a relief it is
To slowly sip you.
Oh glorious tea
You are my lovely delight
Drunk with the sweetest flavors
Don’t count your chickens
The best things in life are free
All you need is love
Work lamp above it
steam rising from sweet leafed tea
beauty in moments.
What a stupid day
But oh how i love sweet leaf
so i write haikus
Raspberry is love
I am full of raspberry
for little bubbles
Sweet Mint and Honey
Teasing and Tickling My Tongue
Sweet Leaf Tea and Me
Twist, pop Mint and Hon
Grannyism Orgasm
For the ‘buds and brains
…that was too inappropriate, wasn’t it?
Ahh! My -ism and -asm syllable misunderstanding threw me off (only 5 in there)! Please allow a redo:
Twist, pop, Mint and Hon
Tis a Grannyism orgasm
For the ‘buds and brains
iced honey and mint
condensation runs down glass
ahh! hot day’s delight.
T is for tasty
E is for ever my fav
A is…at the end.
If you could put love in a bottle…
Oh wait – Granny done did that!
Better get you some!
EEP – hit send too fast.Please delete my unedited haiku
Loving the sweet tea!
Oh, the tea-like leaves calm me.
Bring red raspberry.
Searching everywhere
For a brew that’s homemade bliss
With Sweet Leaf I’m home.
Heat at ACL
Beckons me to drink cool tea
Ahh, sweet refreshment!
A hot Austin day
and the only remedy
can be sweet leaf tea
Dance with me Granny,
Swing me around the planet,
Quench my thirst again.
Loved U Sugar Sweet
Little Much My Scale Said
Love U Diet Peach
cool touch on your heart
like swallowing sunshine beams
the lungs fill with light
Homemade Sweet Leaf Tea
On my lips like a long kiss
Surely this is love
Love me more than words
hold me closer to your soul
keep my spirit afire
He Came With Sweet Leaf
I Had Found My Valentine
How I Was In Love!
please disregard previous Haiku…misunderstood the directions and did not mention tea! LOL here is the tea one:
Half tea Half lemon
all sweet and sour pleasure
like love but bottled
oh mint you “tea”se so
with your honeyed libations
just a tad naughty
Green Tea and some mint
Tito’s vodka, ice, and straw
Your husband’s kiss. Bliss
Oh dear Sweet Leaf Tea
How my stomach yearns for thee
You sweeten my life
smiling granny
makes all the sweetest of teas
must go get some now!
or…..
sweet leaf day of love
many refreshing flavors
share with your sweetie
all you need is love
said the tea-brewing granny
she is wise, indeed
Sweet Leaf Tea is great.
Tasty and lip smacking good.
I gotta have some.
Haikus Are Easy
And How Sweet Leaf Is Pleasing!
Yum, Valentine’s Day!
So refreshing tea
Is Raspberry Sweet Leaf
It satisfies me.
mint and honey tea
on single awareness day
spiked it with tito’s
Mint and honey tea
Quench my thirst like no other
How I love Granny!
Once thought all green tea
shared self-same genetic code:
no! sweet leaf: peerless.
Sweet tea is for me.
It quickly quenches my thirst
With a yummy taste.
Ice cold Sweet Leaf Tea
Shared between two valentines
What a perfect day!
Passion infused life
A drink of granny’s goodness
My lovely thirst quenched
Half & Half Sweet Leaf Tea
plus You and Me
equils a perfict couple!
Half & Half Sweet Leaf Tea
plus You and Me
equals a perfect couple!
Naturally Sweet Tea
Ingredients. I Pronounce
You My Favorite.
So Long Aspartame,
Saccharin and ChemStuff. Now
Sugar is My Sweet.