Citronella Poems

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...

Blue Shotgun Lantana

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"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...

Prelude

...Come into my chamber
I shall color the music low
chill the wine perfect to taste 
and for our light 
catch stray moonbeams 
flirting through the window 
place a candle or two 
scented with cit...

Citronella

...Hola mia bella
My darling Citronella
You’re running off like Cinderella
Leaving behind your red umbrella
Heard you might be lookin’ for a fella
I’m handy and do things by the law
Stay a while s...

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...

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...

Starlight

...sabadilla and citronella
frees the starlight for serene lips

8/21/2018...

Haiku

...fireworks of July...
lawn chairs line...the twilight sky
...citronella oil

5/12/2018...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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,...

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...

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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