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Sandalwood Poems - Poems about Sandalwood


SANDALWOOD AND THE AXE poetrix
How wonderful is the sandalwood that even when it succumbs perfumes the axe that cuts it down!...

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Categories: sandalwood, allusion, extended metaphor, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Burning Sandalwood
In a ever expanding vast , dense,dark ,wild forest, crooked ,cracked,bent trees, which provide shade ,bearing fruits venomous ,with roots rotten deep down and spreading to its offshoots. In the midst ,lies a sandalwood, spreading enchanting fragrance without acknowledging its inner essence and withering away for those ugly,huge trees. Every tree,offshoot and grass boasted about their greatness, wallowing in their super ego mocking,inflicting pain on the sandalwood tree. Stood in silence,bearing all...

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Categories: sandalwood, giving, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Fragrance of Sandalwood
Fragrance of sandalwood Fragrance of sandalwood, arises from within, as a bliss pheromone, suffusing soul’s stillness, with peace we alone own. Fragrance of sandalwood, as an effervescence, so sublime, we dissolve in bliss currents divine, beholding soul evolve. Fragrance of sandalwood, ignites the vibrant void; flame without residue, a benign bliss burn whose beauteous hues renew. Fragrance of sandalwood, is dispersed as a mist; an effulgence of soul, outpouring love’s essence, fulfilling earth life role. 28-May-2022...

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Categories: sandalwood, spiritual,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Premium Member In Sandalwood Dreams
Turned and tossed like toys Riding the mighty waves Their master does what he wilt To them his humble slaves Rudely he flings their boats asunder But calm can be his days He is his own Master Wild Unrepentant in his ways His moods can change quite quickly From sparkling blues to greys From lapping shores so softly To howling roaring waves Dark skinned men with coal...

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Categories: sandalwood, boat, fishing, ocean, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Sandalwood Soul
Remember me When sandalwood scents sail on sea breezes My soul is the sea Shells and driftwood are strewn on my heart Engulfed I’ll be When waves reclaim my footprints Count on me To awaken memories through sandalwood My soul remains free Even if my ashes are cast into the Atlantic With you I’ll be Each time sandalwood wafts my way Inhale me And my soul will be...

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Categories: sandalwood, introspection, sea, senses,
Form: Ode



Sandalwood Dreams
Incense mists rise from the beautifully decorated altar bowls of prasadam bananas, apples, bright oranges offered at Your Lotus Feet Vedic hymns hypnotic, chants flood the prayer room I gaze through the smoke and fog my eyes tightly shut sound asleep feels like aeons how I pray to awaken at long last...

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Categories: sandalwood, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sandalwood Fan
Sandalwood Fan On the verandah of the Moana Hotel Not too many years ago Under the great banyan beside the beach at Waikiki They would bring a fragrant sandalwood fan to all the guests that ordered tea. They set it before you in its own fancy stand the most alluring fragrance wafted on demand, when you opened it’s carved blades and gently fanned....

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Categories: sandalwood, absence, beach, change, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sandalwood
They are playing that song again The one that reminds me of you It began to rewind as I turned up the dial from a place long ago that's been bleached for awhile "California Dreamin" sifts through the air like the sandalwood incense, that used to be there. "All the leaves are brown, and...

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Categories: sandalwood, friend, longing, nostalgia, women,
Form: Narrative
Sandalwood
~ Sandalwood ~ Fall days leaves of gold orange and grey this scent...

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Categories: sandalwood, art, beauty, dream, fire,
Form: Tail-rhyme

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