Best Citronella Poems


Wind Chimes

...The earth moaned 
under the heat. On the porch
wicks drowned in melted
citronella candles
under limp wind chimes.
Withered vegetation drooped.

Finally –
a grey morning mist
gently
moistene......

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Categories: citronella, rain, summer,
Form: Free verse

Evening Swim

...The night emits a citronella scent
   From tiki torches topped with living flame;
I swim in circles -- softly speak your name --
   While starlight washes over us, content.

Cicadas still sing s......

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Categories: citronella, adventure, allegory, happiness, love,
Form: Sonnet

Aroma Poetry

...Mother nature oh! Rose of roses!
Mother of all flowers' and smell,
Ylang Ylang! You don't know what it causes!
An aphrodisiac turns you on like hell!

Sandalwood with its masculine warmth poses,......

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Categories: citronella, beauty, flower, rose, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme

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Blue Shotgun Lantana

...
"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire

"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns." 
Charles Baudelaire

"Smell is......

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Categories: citronella, muse, mystery, sensual,
Form: Free verse

June Bugs

...It’s dusk in Texas in May 
Keeping the June Bugs at bay 
Citronella works in a way 
Creepy-crawlies more dense in the day 

Reading Kafka but only halfway 
Focus not with it today 
As the cand......

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© Alan Reed  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: citronella, adventure, allegory, introspection, people,
Form: Rhyme

Screened-In

...From gnats and moths and things unseen,
I am protected by a screen.
Mosquitoes land and flit away,
Defeated for another day.

Where once a citronella torch
Repelled some pests, my screened-in p......

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Categories: citronella, nature,
Form: Rhyme


Cotton Candy At the Carousel

...The moonlight beamed on our whitened teeth as we wrote our names in the methylone stars,
Raspberry pixels leaked out of our cheeks as we covered our lungs in black velvet tar.
The wind blew your ha......

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Categories: citronella, art, fantasy, imagination
Form:

Citronella

...Citronella

Her soul glows like a citronella candle flame at night
She doesn’t warm; just keeps the pests away with her toxic bite
She doesn’t need to beat those boys off with a bat
But she stil......

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© Amy Sell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: citronella, for teens, imagery, light,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Summer Scents

...The scents of summer waft through the air
Warm and tantalising 
Nothing compares

Soft perfume of coconut suncream 
Smells of the salty sea
Distance aroma of fish and chips
Summer scents drift......

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© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: citronella, summer,
Form: Rhyme

Bing Bang But No Bungee

...and its the bing bang boing but not bong ok nor beng or bung
A chicken diner stream is a recipe of combined cream but crossing a work surface is often best using traffic lights, zebra crossings and ......

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Categories: citronella, absence, adventure, allah, allegory,
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Egg At the Odd of Night

...outside
inventoried oval-stoned
cathedrals appealing
chiming crimes of passion
woke citronella
fog
hung in cement-hamocked snowdrifts
cloaked slow on slick-stained windowsides
tenement sheets......

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© Dort James  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: citronella, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member The Real Story

...Single slippered Cinderella
Yesternight’s ball bella
Angelic voices heard a cappella
Followed by lovely clarabella

The dinner served was paella 
With a side of shredded mozzarella 
While faki......

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Categories: citronella, adventure, cinderella, fantasy, fun,
Form: Monorhyme

The Citronella

...She stood by the citronella
staring at its jagged leaves
hoping they would grow and carry her away

Rooted in the ground, eyes drawn into its foliage
the caretaker peered over his cigar at her d......

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Categories: citronella, abuse, pain,
Form: Free verse

Cash-Memo

...it is circulated deep into the soil 
that you’ve wore the dress of paraffin 

in the multidimensional wind of the winter 
the cash-memo of the recently purchased 
gold-bangles 
would reside for......

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Categories: citronella, fantasy
Form: Prose Poetry

Pardon

...Oh wow a mystic meaning manifesting majestic majorities. In a purple eclipse. In a towel hung geometrically on a towel rail. Hum then. Queues upon queues of geometricians on hoops. Linguistic lingeri......

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Categories: citronella, autumn, , western,
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