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Odiferous Poems - Poems about Odiferous

Leaves and Leafy Grassiness

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We sleep on each other,
lick on each other,
run around and nip on each other,
we are wholly 'each other,'
personalities
hid
in the ruff and fur around our necks
and the snaggle of ou...
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Categories: odiferous, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along

...Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along...

as his stronghold diminishes.

Signals, triggers, and ushers kickstarting debut
of demure "Flora" who slowly but surely attempts
to revea...
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Categories: odiferous, america, animal, birth, celebration,
Form: Free verse



The Ballad of the Plastic Freak

...I’ve been sitting here so long,
My butts getting numb,
So I jump right up
And stick out my thumb.

He comes rolling down the street,
With the only smell of mention,
The noxious fumes; olfactor...
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Categories: odiferous, crazy, culture, destiny, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Terrible Start

...I was off to a terrible start
A first date with odiferous fart
    'til she made it quite clear
     as her curfew drew near
That a fart's not the way to 'er heart!

Inspired by Jan Allison......
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Categories: odiferous, funny,
Form: Limerick

A Nose For Art

...My dog is giving the sky
a meticulous tongue lolling.

Half way through the walk he dips
his pink lapper into a muddy puddle
then continues to paint the sky
to his liking,
'his liking' being
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Categories: odiferous, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberIt Seems Nature Had Other Plans

...IT SEEMS NATURE HAD OTHER PLANS

Our plan was to take a morning walk along the beach..as plans go it was a simple one…and once we arrived we headed south and east…toward the rising sun.

But a sh...
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Categories: odiferous, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Brief Note of Thanks

...When you comment on a poem of mine
I owe you a concise note expressing thanks
That you took the time to read me is so fine.

Reading a comment makes me feel divine
As I read them up ...
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Categories: odiferous, angst, appreciation, poems, poetry,
Form: Villanelle

Premium MemberOlfactory Ode

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Odiferous, a sad and sordid tale,
for naught remains but that which does assail.
The rascal takes one final, pungent swipe:
grizzled remains along the center stripe.


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Categories: odiferous, animal,
Form: Couplet

A Canine Eloquence

...Old Spice’ and wet grass carry years
of understanding between us.

If I break wind, you run to me,
body rapt and heeding,
every hair translating
a smudged paragraph into
volumes of memory.

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Categories: odiferous, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Decided To Stay a Bit Longer

...I screwed it on and it went right up the bank.
Hey! Said Crankden Cramden, was that mink named Hank?
The one who lost his head and needed a new one? I asked.
I think so said Bogland Bagomire, as h...
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Categories: odiferous, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme

Gaseous Squeaks

...I heard the echoes of each gassy squeak
Held my breath when I sniffed his stinky leak
He let out a few more
So I ran for the door
Before his toots made the entire room reek

Others came out, wh...
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Categories: odiferous, humor,
Form: Limerick

There Is a Poem

...There is a poem
Dangling,
Unappreciated,
Just hanging there.

On our November,
A Thanking,
Loving,
Pumpkin.

Perhaps poor poetry;

But scrumptiously odiferous,
Dangling
Unappreciated,
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Categories: odiferous, 9th grade, fun,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberOde To My Garbage Guy

...Charlie, my garbage guy, has an odiferous job to say the very least,

Tossing garbage into the maw of his truck, that roaring, ravenous beast!

But Charlie has been on the job for years and doesn...
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Categories: odiferous, humorous, work,
Form: Ode

Making Moussaka For Neil

...We begin at the beginning: a clove of garlic, too hard-headed
for its own good, combined with two large onions, their first denuding 
revealing fallow gold: the second layer, a pale green puberty,
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Categories: odiferous, absence, bereavement,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberThreading Hunger's Needle

...Threading Hunger’s Needle
                                by Odin Roark

Acumen's voice smolders quietly
When deafened ears respond only
To discords of witlessness.

Perception's heat invites ...
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Categories: odiferous, wisdom, , literature,
Form: Free verse

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