Tag Archives: scents

Beach Love

Posted on January 26, 2019 by

Written for:  Poetic Bloomings2 – InForm Poet:  Villonette “A Villonnet is a hybrid of the Villanelle and the Sonnet. It has the Iambic Pentameter of both, but holds the four-stanza/line structure of the sonnet, while utilizing the two-line rhyme nature … Continue reading →

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Reminds Me Of . . .

Posted on October 3, 2018 by

Written for:  dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics:  “Comfort Smells”  (posted by Gina) “Today I ask that you write a poem about a smell that takes you to a time when you would just collapse into a safe place especially when … Continue reading →

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Cacophony

Posted on September 7, 2018 by

Written for:  Quickly – Retail Therapy Just another consumer That’s your topic. Cacophony of contentious noise– cash register, rustling paper, plaintive complaints. Oil paintings’ vibrancy and scent mixing with cheeses of all known pungencies. Far too much to contemplate. I … Continue reading →

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City of Colors

Posted on July 12, 2018 by

Written for:  Poets United Midweek Motif~City  (posted by Sumana) “In the eyes of a poet what would a busy city look like? A dream or a nightmare?” A city stays in your heart, grabs a seat in your brain, rains … Continue reading →

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silk road spices

Posted on February 8, 2018 by

Written for:  Carpe Diem #1361 Chang’an (Northern Route) entering the city the sweet perfume of spices mouth watering © Chèvrefeuille (our host) Here is my attempt: faint scent of spices at the Wild Goose Pagoda– saffron, sandalwood http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.nl/

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My Little Pleasures

Posted on October 1, 2017 by

Written for:  Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – Midweek Challenge:  Thinking of Little Things “Today, pretend for a moment that you are at a loss for something to write. If you are me, you won’t have to pretend very hard. … Continue reading →

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Pumpkins

Posted on September 23, 2017 by

Written for:  Poems of Garden Gnomes – Form Friday – Acrostic Poetry An ACROSTIC is a poem (or other form of writing) in which the first letter of each line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells … Continue reading →

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Remembering The Fragrance

Posted on September 7, 2017 by

Written for:  Poets United Midweek Motif~Memories   (posted by Sumana Roy) “There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”— Aeschylus Memory is our active storage tank, always storing and retrieving (for the lucky ones, … Continue reading →

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Pesto

Posted on May 16, 2017 by

Written for:  dVerse Poet’s Pub:  Haibun Monday – “From The Kitchen Of Poets” (posted by Björn Rudberg (brudberg)  Today I would like you to consider cooking in your haibun and give us a recipe in your prose. But it should not … Continue reading →

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Scent Reminders

Posted on March 4, 2017 by

Written for:  Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads  (posted by Susie Clevenger) “Bits of Imagination”~Perfume ‘I am sure even reading the word perfume will take your thoughts to a favorite scent, be it from a bottle or the scented air of … Continue reading →

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