The Teahouse of Experience

POETRY

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This poetry book contains a four-year collection of poetry and prose, memories, rituals, life, death, rebirth, and women’s wisdom. Dedicated to every woman who managed to find a room of their own to practise creative art, experience their own writing journey, and find a voice and a path to the ‘middle way’ and freedom, which, once tasted and known, can never be unknown.

Aspects of Tibetan Buddhism, Japanese haiku, Sanskrit and other words in foreign text are strung together somatically like threads of art, entwined and embodied as body, as ritual, as landscape, as sanctuary with pieces of Self, and excerpts of experimental poetry submitted for classes on this journey.

The experience was sometimes intense, at times challenging, but mostly filled with awe, creativity, and joy at what transformed from pen to page. I journeyed ‘all-in’, saying yes to what this immersion experience presented, then further coaxed myself into depths that I can only call echoes and whispers received from the unseen ancestors, embedded within divine guidance from those that had walked the path before me.

Celeste da Silva Cunha, a lifelong learner, and embodied experimental poet, born in Swaziland, of Portuguese, South African, and English descent. She discovered her passion for writing poetry and children’s literature while studying psychology and creative writing and literature at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Her first poem was published in the summer of 2024 in Bombay Gin Literary Journal, My Body a Sanctuary, and her first children’s yoga and mindfulness book, A Children’s Guide to Story Yoga, published in 2025. This poetry manuscript includes poetry and prose written over several years.