Scented Leaves

Imagine..... Scrunched lazily in a bed of your chosen leaves each and every night To pacify your senses in the richness of earthy-scented legacies Our ecstasy would prompt our dreams to drift away the moonlight In nature's cupboard saturating us to delight In this splendiferous ornamental landscape potpourri Favorites...... There is of course dark green BAY, the pungent sweet shiny leaf Loved in soups, stews and sauces and decorative wreaths CILANTRO serves us tasty signals of subtle, herbal, lemony bright When cooking in our kitchens playground with recipes just right MINT is the refresher both clean and sharp - so snappy Essential to the gum we chew, it makes our toothpaste happy EUCALYPTUS is strong and bittersweet so conspicuously alive Its medicine embraces our care in illness and with health to survive PEPPERTREE stuns our tongues devilishly it tastes so hot and tangy Rudely smacking our senses sharply burning us to the third degree VERBENA lulls you to a deeper earthly perfume, lusty and titillating A citrus romance for salacious hearts and sultry languishing THYME and SAGE mixes well with much especially ROSEMARY and PARSLEY It is the herbal gift to our Thanksgiving table as we are wise to use it sparsely PINE has needles long and thin, its woodland floor fusion creates the pathway For a long journeys venture of our illusions of forest and stream far away A bed of leaves to lay ourselves each and every night A gift of dreams these scented legacies, its ecstasy to our senses delight November 13, 2019 Scented Leaves Poetry Contest Sponsor Kim Rodriguez