Short Smell Poems

Short Smell Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Smell by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Smell by length and keyword.


Dogs and Smell

they are  in the rain
also on a train
taught to tell
if your not fit well
could be jail no bail
its
DOGS AND SMELLL


Premium Member the wet dog smell

If you have never had a dog
you might not know this
but there is a wet dog smell
that you cannot buy
you have to earn it
dog

Your Smell

Getting your smell is an addiction -leaving it is a scarlet pain

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Form: Monoku

Premium Member A Fowl Smell Tonight

a fowl smell tonight
and we turned accusative
huge chicken farms

Dedicated to all the chicken 
farms along the interstates.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member fragrance of a skunk

pungent skunk like smell
my nose feels assaulted
eyes quickly water
horrible stench makes me wail
i quickly see Bambi's friend
Form: Tanka


Premium Member Mediterranean side


Dawn awakenings 
~the golden touch from your scence
smelling of jasmine
~mediterranean side
where the moon kisses the sun
Form: Tanka

Cake

Fresh warm cakes smell like your home,
as if a friend on the phone.
It can make you feel calm, safe.
A part of you – flesh and bone.
Form: Jueju

Premium Member Family Memories

Christmas
morning
begging for
the luscious
scent of hot
cinnamon rolls
traditions and
memories



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Smell of Chestnut

as you shop and windor stop
on everyblock
there's smoking cot
with shell that bust
roasting on the fires
its the
SMELL OF CHESTNUTS

You Smell Like a Memory of the Sea Nighttime Musings

You smell like a memory of the sea
And I remember which day
You swept me off my feet, but gently
A toe still drawing
Lines in the sand

Smell of Your Perfues

its get my going
show showing
my wide side
and am not lying
i tell you
it smell good too
lights up the room
the
SMELL OF YOUR PERFUES

The Smell

I am infatuated
with the smell
of horse
sweet
and unique
in the heat
After a long day
go 
smell a horse
and see
if you
feel the same
Form:

Premium Member Stirred by a summer breeze

The bumblebee ever so busy.
Stops here and there scoops every scent.
The meadow is its world.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: 2nd place 2025
Form: Other

Smell of Holiday Smoke

you can tell by the smell
it rings a bell
its things that bust
call chestnut
as fire go hires
make you almost choke
SMELL LIKE
HOLIDAY SMOKE

Premium Member Campsite Breakfast

“Wake up, breakfast is cooking.”
Bacon in cast iron skillet,
sounds and smells, wafted through the tent.
“Coming”, the crackling bacon got me!
© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Octobers of my childhood

We were young and days filled with fun
the smell of autumn was intoxicating
the crunch of leaves exhilirating



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Chestnut Smell

christmas bells
you can tell
when it christmas time
the smoke make you blind
as you shop and hop
it s like smoke from hell
THE
CHESTNUT SMELL

Smell of Chestnut

winter comming in
hats coats and friends
windor shopping
cots stopping
eat things that bust
its that  it rings my bell
the 
SMELL OF CHESTNUT
joy

Haiku Beg

untitled HAIKU, beg

here run the pups to beg
smell of toast fills the room
without jam not mine

—————————————————————
(c)sally Young Eslinger
Form: Haiku

Smell of Christmas

theyer comming out
no doudt
some in red
hats on there head
ring the bell
you can tell
as smoke choke thing that bust
its the
SMELL OF CHRISTMAS

Holiday Chestnuts and Smell

as you shop block to block
makeing food 
its a holiday ring bell
you can tell
by that smell
as you go your way
its
HOLIDAY 
CHESTNUTS AND SMELL

Holiday Chestnuts and Smell

as you shop block to block
makeing food 
its a holiday ring bell
you can tell
by that smell
as you go your way
its
HOLIDAY 
CHESTNUTS AND SMELL

Premium Member Missing my grand-mother

I still see her ghost.
She's at the woodstove cooking and baking.
Perfumes still roam the air.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Form: Other

Premium Member Assailed by aromatics

Kitchen aromas excite the senses.
Garlic and onions sizzling in the pan.
Meanwhile big apple pie baking.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: 3rd place 2025
Form: Other

Smell of Hoilday Smoke

almost choke
this know joke
we  holday shop
as  windor stop
like comming fom hell
the chestnut smell
  mabe me mope
it was the
SMELL OF HOLIDAY SMOKE

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