Patchouli Poems

Song of The Mafiosa President Gone Wild

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(* WARNING * adult content and Humor and for the Christians: Consult your Strong's concordance for the word: "MAMMON" )
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Call Me WHAT?!*°
not to alarm- "Injun" . . ....
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Categories: patchouli, america, black african american,
Form: Didactic

On The Road Again

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Two of us on a sixties hippie trip
to see if our gears would slip or mesh
innocent but wary yet wide-eyed
to the Imperial city of Marrakech
she perfumed with patchouli
me I traveled to...
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Categories: patchouli, africa, fun, love, moving
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberForest Dreams

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Forest dreams as tender as a whisper 
soft spoken wishes in the penumbra of night 
Divinely assembled beneath a scried heaven 
we live, we breathe, we follow...

The evening plants beg...
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Categories: patchouli, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Recognized Her on the Street

...Her dreadlocks were familiar as was her patchouli smell
I recognized her folk music, understood it rather well
She brought back the seventies in the sweetest way
I was thrilled to stumble upon thi...
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Categories: patchouli, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWe Called Kneeasia a Hippie

...Knee ‘Asia claimed she was Bohemian, but we called her hippie.
That was my folks, she told us. They were rather loose and dippy.
We saw her dwelling and changed our minds in no way whatsoever.
She...
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Categories: patchouli, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberWhat About This Song Idea

...I know this might sound kind of wrong
But I am making up a ditty of a cute little song
About how hedgehog loves his smelly patchouli bong
How can I distribute it to this hippie throng?

Hedgehog...
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Categories: patchouli, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMaddie An Old Fashioned Woman

...Uncle Wilbur said Maddie was old-fashioned.
I was thinking 50’s or 60’s
He meant a throwback to the seventies.
I had not met anyone this calm since life before Woodstock.
Maddie had glazed eyes, ...
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Categories: patchouli, romantic,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAllergy Season

...smell of burning leaves
like patchouli in my nose
allergic sneezing

written October 3, 2021...
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Categories: patchouli, autumn, environment, health, irony,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberPatchouli

...What I’d like to give you, is an ounce of my cologne
     Sweet masculine patchouli, signature of my own,
          The musky smell I was wearing when we first met.

          I’ll leave the ...
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Categories: patchouli, how i feel, lost
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSmell of Autumn

...Smell of Autumn in the evening dusk
Decaying leaves slowly becoming dust,
Scent of that Sixties patchouli musk
Smell of Autumn in the evening dusk.
Breezes becoming somewhat brusque
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Categories: patchouli, autumn, nature, seasons,
Form: Triolet

Premium MemberThat Thou Art

...she was an artwork in progress

like graffiti on a wall which covered

bricks in her head in the chakra’s colours

connected to the world with easel and brush


but the paint inside her was ...
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Categories: patchouli, identity,
Form: Free verse

Lest I Forget

...LEST I FORGET
If I forget
What I need
I’ll come searching for you
Have the image of your sweet smile To Guide Me

When the clouds are too white
and the sky too bright
Drop the twines of your ...
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Categories: patchouli, family,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSweet Honesty

...Smile on the face or innocence on the face
              is as attractive as beauty on the face.

—Amit Kalantri

Sweet Honesty

Lily of the valley,
   rose and cedarwood....
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Categories: patchouli, flower, senses, youth,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberOn Chanting- Om- Double Senrus

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         on a rug, legs crossed
         patchouli incense, bright, glowing
         my centering island



         letting go of strife
         meditation's fond delight
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Categories: patchouli, blessing, imagery, meaningful, peace,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberTradewinds

...all senses under attack
stirred whirlwinds of exotic music
dance in tango heart and soul

aromas of patchouli myrrh and frankincense
have me floating six inches off the ground
trinkets from aro...
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Categories: patchouli, celebration, color, universe, uplifting,
Form: Free verse

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