I have a little teapot
it's nothing very grand
just an old brown teapot
on a wooden stand
but this old brown teapot
is very dear to me
given by my mother
when I was twenty three
She told me that this teapot
once belonged to her own mother
was given to her like a shot
when she had no other
It's not a pretty teapot
very cracked and never used
but I could never part with it
it's too highly valued
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Nonsense poems are fun, but this is not nonsense. Seemingly worthless things can have great nostalgic value.