One cluster of Mountain Azalea
Stands out like royal regalia,
Adorning a near naked vagrant --
But much more pleasingly fragrant.
Mountain Azalea [Lyric Poem]
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Tag Archives: Smell
Nostalgia [Free Verse]
Eight thousand miles
from my childhood home,
I'm pulled into a nostalgic
reverie
by the scent of straw
and cow shit.
This place,
on the other side of the world,
looks nothing like where I
grew up,
but that smell...
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Flower Sellers [Haiku]
amidst bright colors
and fragrant aromas:
sense overload.
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Spring Rain [Haiku]
sweet rain scent, &
sound of spatter on leaves, &
one drop on the face.
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Green Fields [Haiku]
the rice fields
are at their most verdant;
scent of rain.
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Miasma [Haiku]
the scent of death assaults my nostrils: carcass or fungi?
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Gunsmoke [Free Verse]
the acrid smell of burnt gun-smoke dulls in the mind, but not in the air the brain tires of smelling it, and so it fades, but it has nowhere to go -- not in this violent place of dead & heavy air
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