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Best Smelling Poems

Below are the all-time best Smelling poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of smelling poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Rape - trigger warning
October: I'm eighteen, shortcutting home
through an autumn-burnished churchyard -
copper-lustred leaves, moss-skinned stone -
a jaunty swing of skater skirt and arm,
college folder square-sturdy in my hand.
In...

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Categories: smelling, abuse, violence,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Near Death Experience of a Sweetheart
    "A Near-Death Experience of A Sweetheart"



Floating through a corridor between two different Worlds
among white fluffy clouds and shimmering stars awhile wind...

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Categories: smelling, death, death, god, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Want Your Seeds
**"And his name was Jack"**

No one perceives what abides above the clouds. 
A giant, a harp, maybe golden eggs. 
I demand to see and feel...

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Categories: smelling, adventure, funny, old, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mind Dance
Mind Dance

I hear you calling me
I feel you on the wind
Playing with my hair
Grazing my cheek
With kiss’s shadow

Upon your distant shores
Perched on craggy rocks
Upon sunlit...

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Categories: smelling, appreciation, beauty, bird, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Book of Her Body
I lift you up, delicately
like a bouquet of flames in pink patient fever,
romantically, I rove your surface with fingertips that tingle,
the texture of your treated...

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Categories: smelling, love,
Form: Ballad



In Lieu of the Rodeo
Oh cripes I’ve gotta tell yer of a horror ride I had,
	That beat any bronc or bull I’ve rode, and I must say I’m glad,
	I’ll...

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Categories: smelling, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Train - POTD
 POTD 25 Nov 2020

Manage your Stress … a peeling faded poster boldly declares 
I do get it about advertising campaigns. 
Enough to know that,
‘strategically...

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Categories: smelling, lost love,
Form: Narrative
The Eternal Tree
I am Alive    Forever and always         Essence       ...

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Categories: smelling, life, mother, nature, sea,
Form: Concrete
Broken Wings
As the sun arose in the eastern skies 
a fairy princess sits rubbing her eyes.
Yawning she glimpses her magical isle 
and her tiny lips, curl...

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Categories: smelling, beautiful, fairy, fantasy, freedom,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member The Rest Is Silence
I left her behind
emaciated
I left her
dying
I left her
I left her
I wanted to die there with her
there in the desert
where I left my mother
there where the...

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Categories: smelling, history, remembrance day,
Form: Free verse
Crematorium
dead
bones rise
in ashes,
furnace spews clouds
smelling putrid smoke,
tongues consume bodies all,
aeolian whispers fan
Varanasi’s fierce appetite,
prayer flags wave like a wick of hope
while the ruddy Ganges silently...

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Categories: smelling, death, fire,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member Finding Bigfoot
For BigFoot I searched everywhere.
In all the Northwest, he’s not there!
Then I thought I might know
where a BigFoot might go . . .
so I went...

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Categories: smelling, funny love,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Twas the Night Before Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas
when I and my groom
finally found a motel 
but with just one room.

My groom was in the bathroom -
leaving me alone-
so...

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Categories: smelling, funny, holiday, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In My Opinion
Everything that’s happening this year
was all planned out.
That’s what Agenda 21 (declared as false online)
 is all about.
Documents related to the plan
are out there in...

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Categories: smelling, political,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member A Short Fleeting Moment of Happiness
I saw her sitting in a wheel chair,
crippled, mute and almost hairless,
over pumped with chemotherapy,
and aged more than she really was.
 
Yet I prefer to...

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Categories: smelling, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs