Knocking boots,
it was fun until the boots got old.
The best scrumpy
was not a girl at all, but a pint of raw cider.
Midway through a hike, she cooked up
hot Irish stew in a chill mountain mist.
Never gave much thought to
stimulating aromatics
until wood smoke got in my eyes.
The butchers dog
always had the biggest balls in town,
marrow bones for its libido.
I recall these snippets in a teacup
while slurping a Darjeeling Brew,
it washes over my tongue
like an Indian waitress I once knew.
Funny how the mind surfs up recollections
likes grains of rice, those best moments
of long forgotten flavors.
I put my tongue in my cheek
and try to remember more.
Crab soup made in a straw hut
on a Seychelle's beach,
the woman who cooked it
tasted of ginger, cinnamon and honey,
though on reflection,
I can’t quite recreate that dish anymore.
I think I might have to write
a longer poem about food
with less sex.
Categories:
aromatics, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Afar off as Luna disturbs the briny sea air, its pallid
lips farewell kiss of former throne fairs to absence.
Heir apparent solace a crown restored as its Hymn
privilege rejuvenates Sol's nurtured Hawaiian Isles.
As guests, while a tad, in Hawaii's wild, there they'll
see groundbreakers of Plumeria painted plumes don
guest guessing tree colors that rival Picasso's rarity,
Rose Period of benevolent hues missing silent blues.
On yonder rise further untamed, yielding in strength,
the Bird of Paradise, queues surround a mound. Find
true value in their weight of numbers enabled on top
of the tabled bouquet than solo left alone--so lonely.
Siding with soloists that orchestrate scents, like that
of the Gardenia, Puakenikeni, Kahili Yellow Ginger or
Pikake/Jasmine and Tuberose many more aromatics
redolent a symphonic scores, an orchid won, adored.
Categories:
aromatics, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Cinnamon and smoke;
The cologne I taste
all over your neck
it swims in my mind;
Intoxicating;
Phantom smells
just out of reach,
Aromatics;
I’m relapsing;
Ravenous
withdrawal
consumes me
I drown
inside
you.
Categories:
aromatics, emotions, feelings, love,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
grand maestro performs
summer's overture in full…
mauve aromatics
AP: Honorable Mention 2020, Front Page Pick 2020
Submitted on July 9, 2019 for contest HAIKU-HUE sponsored by KIM RODRIGUES - RANKED 1ST
Categories:
aromatics, flower, music, nature, summer,
Form: Haiku
perfumed aromatics of roses and magnolia
drift along midsummer evening breezes
enchanted moonlight behind the garden gate
when together there you and I sit complicit
AP: Honorable Mention 2021
Submitted on May 25, 2019 for contest MAY PREMIER 8 ANY 4 OR 5 LINE FORM sponsored by BRIAN STRAND
and on May 5, 2019 for contest SUMMER QUATRAIN sponsored by CAREN KRUTSINGER
Categories:
aromatics, flower, garden, love, night,
Form: Quatrain
That first non-rhythmical matter,
Floated on the new dust of light,
To whet the eleventh spark clatter,
Such that its dividend split tight;
A web, a sea of ringed atmosphere,
Then a cob of meteoric compression,
Hurling towards a black collapse here,
To dent the shock supernovas intervention;
With planets duetting their sweeps in silence,
The night is not black and suffers a blow,
Identified deductively but with great nuance,
The waves glinting the bounce and the flow.
God became a man, human to the core,
Not an apple, lamp, priest or Ferrari,
Even though Genesis incepts with lore,
Given god as a construct, apple’s Atari;
Christianity grabs god indeed as a man,
Possibly to concede that a human coasts,
Crucially opening herbs and aromatics fan,
To the differential and to the weaker posts.
Life without a momentum blackadders,
Would not summate to conviviality,
Rejuvenation oscillations sprite the adders,
Ionotrophic energy comes up from banality.
Rhoda Monihan
Categories:
aromatics, atheist, i am, space,
Form: Tail-rhyme
ESTIMATING NINE MONTHS FROM ESKIMO KISSES
TUNDRA tunics
tendered,
holding hot
homeothermic
sentient swaddling,
stirred with
warm waves of
cocoa cresting charm,
bathed in barometric
swoon.
sweetheart neckline
netted nefariously
close -
charm capitulated.
frowns forever forlorn,
as aromatics allure —
cologne colonization,
fever-pitch
of friendship,
not so subtly
sensuous —
harbored hashtag,
blue breath
below freezing —
frenetic, freeing
OF ovulating applause.
12/4/2017
Categories:
aromatics, relationship, winter,
Form: Alliteration
HAIKU PASSAGE 4
Adjust your gaze:
Soul flame now lights
Discern the flow
~~~~~~~~~
True being springs
Watch vain stuff fall;
Address focus
~~~~~~~~~
Frangipani tale --
Beauty blossoms;
Flowers chatter
~~~~~~~~~
On the verge
Haiku passage;
Nature nurtures poise
~~~~~~~~~
Sacred word
Aromatics --
Bottled cheer
~~~~~~~~~
Leon Enriquez
16 June2017
Singapore
Categories:
aromatics, change,
Form: Haiku
Cognac & Brandy recollections,
sublime warmth 'tween
smoky exhaled vapors,
wisps of Madagascar aromatics
& blazes of Autumn firesides
amidst a French Château fantasy,
dipped in honeysuckle reminisces
of cardamom spice and the pungent
zest of once upon twilit legends
Categories:
aromatics, autumn, desire, dream, fire,
Form: Imagism
One mean footed man said to another "where are the swan cakes?". To which the right angled man replied "I ate them. I ate them. I own them all. I ate them." Passing from behind came rustling then this was ceased with a bang. Fifteen feathers came hurtling through at the men. And two beaks hit them. As sharp as arrows. They fell in the stream. Swept away. Far away. For the tides of existence are exact. And the honour of nature more honourable. So speak the leaf on a sunny day. Question not an irate toad driving a black land rover. Sailing sweeping swept singing salty spitting slitting spliced spicy spews speedily. Aromatics x
Categories:
aromatics, allah, art, basketball, beach,
Form: I do not know?
Dawn flings
Sparkling light;
Dreamy daze ends
~~~~~~~~~
Birdsong serenade
By balcony rails;
Solo performance
~~~~~~~~~
Joy words
Inner music rhymes;
Passion ignites
~~~~~~~~~
A lover's touch
Kindness blooms;
Ecstasy confronts
~~~~~~~~~
Hush of morning
Soft footfalls;
Early rising
~~~~~~~~~
Musical notes
Neighbour's house warming;
Happy escapades
~~~~~~~~~
New eatery
Upmarket permutations;
Expensively nice!
~~~~~~~~~
Lunch discourse
Three voices shared;
Birthday meal here
~~~~~~~~~
Fragrant moments
Wind through bamboo pines;
Airy aromatics
~~~~~~~~~
Leon Enriquez
29 August 2015
Singapore
Categories:
aromatics, allegory,
Form: Haiku