Best Sweet Smelling Poems


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 remember the one date
we had a long, ......

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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, the black hole

Poised to pounce with sharpened claws
She's......

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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 window I shed a tear; I farm the fields of m......

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sweet smelling, fantasy, winter,
Form: Sijo

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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 couldn't reach you!

And when I say your soul was tain......

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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 up into the sky they're wondering w......

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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 the day
Enjoying the fall of......

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Categories: sweet smelling, inspirationallife, heart, heart, life,
Form: Terza Rima


Premium Member She Taught My Heart To Sing
...Spring has earned a special place in my heart:
a season so fair,
She dispels despair.
And I anxiously await Spring to start;
for craving her touch,
I miss Her so much.
I long for the se......

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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 now
In days gone by, not so long ago
We ......

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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 conspicuous fluttering flight
Darting f......

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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 time

Alone, I sit and gaze at that one small blinking red l......

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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

Y......

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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, just a moment or two,
With paper and pen, thinking only of you.

Then I ......

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Categories: sweet smelling, love,
Form: Couplet
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,
......

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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 childhood imm......

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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 our love with tender music of olden......

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Categories: sweet smelling, love,
Form: Free verse
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