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Best Sweet Smelling Poems

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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: sweet smelling, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Feast of the Beast: Jan Allison and Lin Lane
The mean old housecat has bulgy eyes
when she looks at us in our fish bowl
Oh, how much we've come to despise
that big mouth of hers,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sweet smelling, cat, fish,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sijo -Virgin-
#3~"Lost not forgotten" 
"A solitary star had gone astray, yawning before the dark, 
hiding; straight ward, waver the wink of light, slowly fading. 
By my...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sweet smelling, fantasy, winter,
Form: Sijo
I Dreamed a Dream of You
Yesterday I dreamed a dream,
that had no end.
You in your white gown, and long, black hair flowing.
You were calling my name.
I heard you, but I...

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Categories: sweet smelling, august, beautiful, beauty, care,
Form: Romanticism
Together At Last
They are laughing like naughty children calling out
As they run through the sweet smelling heather
Watching for a gnarled tree trunk to sit and rest about

Looking...

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Categories: sweet smelling, happiness, hope, love, sweet,
Form: Terza Rima



Triumph of the Soul
As I wandered alone without a task
All around me wild flowers sprang forth
My face a sad contorted mask

Of emotionless strife since birth
My eyelids closed against...

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Categories: sweet smelling, inspirationallife, heart, heart, life,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member She Taught My Heart To Sing
Spring holds a special place within my heart;
She's in full bloom there,
dispelling despair.
I'm anxiously waiting for Spring to start;
I miss Her so much;
I crave her...

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Categories: sweet smelling, beautiful, feelings, green, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Memorial Day
Most of us play, our lives like a game
Both ends of our candle, consumed by the flame
Choosing a curtain, buying a vowel
Planning tomorrow, forsaking the...

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Categories: sweet smelling, america, appreciation, blessing, memorial
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Butterflies Are Free
Is there any creature prettier
Than a butterfly fluttering by
A creature of the utmost beauty
Like a rainbow high in the sky

Varied paths on wings of colour
A...

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Categories: sweet smelling, inspirational, nature, butterfly,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Red Light On the Tree
Christmas tree lights make a kaleidoscope of colors on this wall of mine
In the quiet room I sit and watch, oblivious to the passage of...

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Categories: sweet smelling, jesus,
Form: Epic
Colour Favourites
RED-
Pillar boxes that stand open-mouthed
Waiting to be fed.
And plump ripe strawberries,
Dipped in sugar,
Smothered in cream.
Or just popped in your mouth
And squashed between your teeth

YELLOW-
Buttercups that...

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Categories: sweet smelling, children
Form: Free verse
In the Wind--Collaboration With Casarah Nance
I heard my name in the wind where the willows do weep,
Such a moment of bliss I will evermore keep.

For I sat in the silence,...

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Categories: sweet smelling, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Odyssey of We Are Centre
"The Odyssey of We are Centre"



Where does he come through 
with his fishing lines?
Casting off metaphors
worms of vitriol
hooked and dipped,
he’s so green backed  
rolling...

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Categories: sweet smelling, abuse, anti bullying, bullying,
Form: Free verse
The Old Camphor Tree In My Memory
Author: Runping Chen

The desk sends forth its particular fragrance
That gladden people’s hearts.
That is the sweet-smelling of the old camphor bodies
And into the impression of my...

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Categories: sweet smelling, growing up, joy, kid,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A World of Love
In the wine-colored dark of the night, as we stroll 
in the dim-lit gardens of our honeymoon hotel,
we listen to the orchestra, as violins vibrate,
highlighting...

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Categories: sweet smelling, love,
Form: Free verse

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