Poet Profile

tea solon

tea solon enjoys drinking coconut water any given day. She posts translations of life from her lens and sense on Butung is Layp (Coconut is Life), the blog she owns. Her collaboration with family and friends produced three books: palwa (2023), her first collection of poetry; Solon Descendants - poetry and creative expressions from 3 Generations (2022); dew of my memories - collection of poetry in Cebuano and English (2022). Her pieces are in poetry book anthologies: Literary Revelations Publishing House's bestsellers Tranquility. An Anthology of Haiku (2025) and Petals of Haiku. An Anthology (2024); Dagat Ug Kinabuhi Translating Contemporary Cebuano Poetry (2022). tea's Cebuano Visayan poems have found a home on the pages of Kabisdak, and her English poems have appeared in Spillwords and Gobblers by Masticadores, among others.

Books Published:

palwa a collection of poetry – self-published (2023); Solon Descendants Poetry and Creative Expressions from 3 Generations – self-published (2022); dew of my memories collection of poetry in Cebuano and English – self-published (2022).

amid frogs skitter
in the pond's vicissitudes
the pink lotus stills

in the coffeeshop
an empty chair sits smiling
at the pouring rain

brushed by his soft breath
eight thousand sakura blushed
quiet giggles bloomed

from raw maple bough
one red leaf now pirouettes
to grand curtain call

pristine brook water
drinks heaven's heavy sorrows―
dusk thunderstorm wine

at slow yawn of light
behind onerous mountains
two shadows vanished

Credits:

“amid frogs skitter“; “in the coffeeshop” – Tranquility. An Anthology of Haiku, Literary Revelations Publishing House (2025); “brushed by his soft breath”; “from raw maple bough”; “pristine brook water” – Petals of Haiku. An Anthology, Literary Revelations Publishing House (2024); “at slow yawn of light” – The Poetry Bar, Dec. 19, 2023, 38-haiku.