In partnership with Girls Write Now, Channel Kindness held a poetry contest entitled “Art of Kindness.” Below is a sneak peak of one of the contest’s honorable mentions, a poem written by Asma Al-Masyabi. You can read the entire poem on the Girls Write Now website.

Simple Recipe for Ten Minute Ginger Tea

I.

guess six mugs of water into a pot

and set to boil as six cups–clay-baked

and glazed–wait for you to retrieve

honey, the jar beside the

knife block, glued to the marine-tiled wall

 

II.

dance your fingers around the plastic, search

for an unsticky spot, and then invite

gravity–

until amber heaves downwards, thins into a rill

plummets into the hollow of each mug

 

III.

reach for the bulbous warp of ginger, flake

the gold autumn skin,

grate the bite of sunset,

spice

should sharpen your nostrils

Read the full poem on the Girls Write Now site.