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
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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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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Categories:
citronella, for teens, imagery, light,
Form:
Free verse
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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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,
Form:
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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Categories:
citronella, life,
Form:
Free verse
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,
Form: