Tea with Sir Walter Raleigh~by ROXI ST. CLAIR

 

 

Tea with Sir Walter Raleigh

We sat on the veranda
of his hotel room
and sipped tea
while he
lamented
about the
continent he
just crossed
leaving a land
more civilized
than this.
I asked him
how Liz was
doing and
if she
was
still
a virgin…

He said,
“She lost
her maidenhood
and I, my head.
We don’t get
around much
anymore”
he said.

He talked
while I listened
and sipped tea.

Nostalgia…
comes with the
smell of tea,
you know.

© Roxi St. Clair

Sir Walter Raleigh, English adventurer, writer, and favorite courtier of Queen Elizabeth I, was beheaded in London, under a sentence brought against him for conspiracy against King James I.