I bought two excellent anthologies of haiku today and now I have a new challenge for the teabag thread: Write a haiku on the subject of tea.

A haiku is a three line verse. The words in the first line should total five syllables, the second line should have seven syllables and the third and last, five. So that's five/seven/five.

The writer Jack Kerouac suggested that a haiku could be any image or simple sentiment expressed in a few short lines.

If anyone attempts a limerick I will personally hunt them down and torture them.