whitetea

Member since November 16, 2007

Member for 18 years, 6 months

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80 Poems

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Din

Posted Sep 2, 2025 · 7 lines

Delivered, submersive cerebral warmth
discordant, surging.
Divinity, sharing primordial whispers,
decryption of shadows,
dispelling rumors of self,
de-prohephsying the missing soothsayers,
Diffusing theatrical aversions from dwindling, drowning the dissonance, in daylight.

whitetea’s timeline

March 2026
27 Fri

New follower
@Lavender
September 2025
02 Tue

Critiqued
"Along the Creek" by @Lavender
"Strong botanical visuals. Thank you for sharing this landscape."
02 Tue

Critiqued
"Water Everywhere" by @Sen99
"Water keeps visiting me in my grief journey, I felt a connection to this piece."
02 Tue

Critiqued
"Heartfelt Emotion" by @Clentin
"I agree, it is curious how happiness is sparked from so many forms."
02 Tue

Critiqued
"Sugar Daddy" by @Rula
"I enjoyed the sass in this piece I enjoy it when poetry explores unexpected subjects like this."
02 Tue

Critiqued
"Time's Up" by @Clentin
"Haunting. I love to read first hand accounts of hospice workers to get an idea of the end of life and what it looks like from the outside. Well captured."
02 Tue

Critiqued
"Tears of lost dreams, to creative fire " by @Tigger Kaz
"Fellow creative, I feel you so much on this, as a fellow chronically ill person. Thank you for the insight to your journey."
02 Tue

Critiqued
"The Mayflies" by @Trail
"Mayflies have such brief life cycles and it makes sense to ponder on our own life's cycles. I enjoyed reading this."
02 Tue

Critiqued
"The Mayflies" by @Trail
"Mayflies have such brief life cycles and it makes sense to ponder on our own life's cycles. I enjoyed reading this."
02 Tue

Posted a poem
Din
"Delivered, submersive cerebral warmth"
Open thread 7 lines
July 2025
15 Tue

Received a critique
on Under from @Clentin
"Liked your poem very much. Hope to follow and see more of you."
15 Tue

New follower
@Clentin
June 2025
03 Tue

Received a critique
on Mishiranu Tenjou 見知らぬ、天井 from @kowque
"Brilliant"
03 Tue

Received a critique
on Mishiranu Tenjou 見知らぬ、天井 from @Geezer
"I think I can decipher the basics of this poem. I feel this way myself, on a great many days, in instances of recognition. I wonder where I have gone, and if I will be back; sometimes, life seems so bizarre. You have wr…"
03 Tue

Posted a poem
Mishiranu Tenjou 見知らぬ、天井
"Navigating the point at which my captive eyes land, an unfamiliar ceiling crowns my shelter,"
Open thread 31 lines
November 2022
15 Tue

Anniversary
15 years of membership
December 2020
13 Sun

Received a critique
on Archipelago from @Obadiah Grey
"I like that you have left a little room for the reader to draw upon their own interpretation. Will read more of you. Obi."
12 Sat

Received a critique
on Archipelago from @Geezer
"that I get it. As another said recently, we are alone and solitary, except for the people that we communicate with through the internet. "Writing in solitary rooms that we will never see". Have we let ourselves become t…"
12 Sat

Posted a poem
Archipelago
"We"
Open thread 13 lines
September 2020
19 Sat

Received a critique
on Desert Flowers from @Gracy
"Sad but lovely tribute to native women. The same happens in Argentina, where I live. The conquerors, then the colonists and finally all settlers were/are cruel to them. The title is fine, so is the content and I especia…"
19 Sat

Posted a poem
Desert Flowers
"Graphing out the gridlock,"
Open thread 28 lines
May 2020
09 Sat

Received a critique
on Under from @Gracy
"Good poem, whitetea. I'd only shorten up some lines, as at times it seems too wordy. I love the central idea, it's tender and makes one go into a reverie about the elements, life and love."
07 Thu

Received a critique
on Under from @lovedly
"It's too late now to thank him as somewhere he must be soaring in the wilderness of time near eternity at times I often feel we must attend to chores instantly but then time tells us silently wait and see may it not yet…"
November 2017
15 Wed

Anniversary
10 years of membership
April 2015
23 Thu

Posted a poem
Under
"Witness of your mother, who stumbled through her"
Open thread 29 lines
November 2012
15 Thu

Anniversary
5 years of membership
October 2011
01 Sat

Posted a poem
avalanche
"All his lyrics come from a bottle"
Open thread 24 lines
July 2011
02 Sat

Posted a poem
signals of a pristine gommorah
" "
Open thread 28 lines
March 2011
10 Thu

Posted a poem
sensitive
"provoke is the word we must not lust after"
Open thread 22 lines
February 2011
25 Fri

Posted a poem
her transparent embrace
"tactile"
Open thread 14 lines
December 2010
22 Wed

New follower
@Blue_Halcyon
July 2010
11 Sun

Posted a poem
The Coroner, The Obstetrician
"             They call it DMT"
Open thread 41 lines
02 Fri

Posted a poem
a dream floats up
"Dear"
Open thread 24 lines
June 2010
29 Tue

Posted a poem
Urdu
"French is the Western language of love"
Open thread 9 lines
March 2010
09 Tue

Most-discussed work
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36 critiques to date.
November 2008
15 Sat

Anniversary
One year of membership
September 2008
15 Mon

Highest posting month
September 2008 — 7 poems
November 2007
21 Wed

First publication
I gave you a seashell
16 Fri

First critique offered
on "dreaming" by @anonymitylll
15 Thu

Joined Neopoet
Membership begins

First poem published 5 days later.