Short Sniffed Poems

honeycomb danger
grizzly bear has sniffed them out
stingers no good here...

Read More

27-05-2022

The mouse sniffed the air
then dashed into the pantry
For a scrap of food...

Read More

There was a hermit named Dave
Who found a dead boar in his cave
It was less one tusk
And smelled like musk
Dave sniffed and said no need for marinade...

Read More

Lizard woman with mellow yellow face
Puts a fellow into a squirming place
I gave her a nod
She sniffed like a clod
We won’t be propagating human race...

Read More

A K-9 Spaniel who sniffed down crooks
started getting suspicious looks
To avoid detection
he’s in witness protection
with ten butlers and twenty-three cooks...

Read More

Barry loved flowers
Especially their smell
When Barry sniffed them
He became very unwell

He must be allergic
To their lovely aroma
Oh Dear! poor Barry
Has fallen into a coma...

Read More

The Vicar sniffed searching for the culprit
As it rose it overtook the pulpit
Stained glass windows wept
As the brimstone crept
The choir hummed so as not to gulp it

©6/20/2023...

Read More

He swirled the wine around his glass
and then he sniffed for its bouquet.
Some wilted flowers for his wife!
'A fine bouquet,' I heard her say.

written 28th January for Constance's B word contest...

Read More

My tongue is tied around poetry
Mind fried around metaphor 
Alliteration obliteration 
Oblique technique 
Enjambment enjoyment ended
Ditty writing suspended
Poetry smoetry
Low ebb tree
Bread free
For birds
That
Sing...

Read More

Words,
Sniffed by open ears.

Tangled sounds, of throats whose thyroid pounds,
For sakes, palavers and second rounds.

Hearing me, I learn to hear of you,
Your words my throat encode.
Vocalizations, tell tales of supplication,
Certain senses must've forebode....

Read More

unaware
there's a
bear out
side my
tent for
i forgot
and kept 
my tooth
paste
with
me

instead
of hang
ing it in
a tree a
bove me
with my
other
things
while in
my sleep
ing bag i'm

simply
meat
nicely
tucked
in begin
ning to
feel like
a mint
soft
shell
ed taco...

Read More

When I let one loose in the elevator
I hoped the smell would pass 
But it stopped on six then my boss stepped in 
And my bowels expelled more gas

He sniffed the air not once but twice 
And asked if I smelled stew? 
I answered back with a sheepish grin
I think it's butt Fondue

August 04 2021...

Read More

Stuck in a forest 
Lost in the thicket of green
So heavy it is now black
Just like the sun
All the noises I can't identify,
Yet the sounds I know I have heard
Tried my lonely hand at hunting
Hours later... it is me that is now the hunted
By my stench that clings to my scars
My blood sniffed for a trace...

Read More

The ducks have come a long way
for rations from my high hand.

The best crumbs 
I keep to myself.

I don’t have to share at all
what the master let fall
from his plate.

But I know what it’s like
to long for a meager scrap
that’s spied and sniffed

but never had.

May 6, 2015
for Feeding the Ducklings Contest...

Read More

A slight whiff of wind 
Blew the last petal 
off a solitary wildflower

Swirling through the air 
It landed on a crack
In the dried river bed

...

A displaced grey dragonfly
Sniffed the hollow wind
For a sign of a distant shower 

Neither did it found any
Nor did it have the strength 
To chase one he might have....

Read More

He sniffed the wolves
~found them wanting
Wolves sniffed of him
~found him daunting

The shepherd fears
not beast of prey
With shiverin' lambs
he greets each day

Upon the hills
and braky glen~
shepherd watches
o'er his friends

And when the night
calls lambs to sleep
the shepherd sings
while grey wolves weep. 

r ~ 25Mar14...

Read More

Bourbon; whisky- on the rocks,
Chased by draughts of Coke
Or was it lines sniffed from the clock-
Forgotten after several tokes?

Join the Clan of Ativan,
(Betrothed to one Ms. Lora Tab)
In vodka pools, serenely swam-
By many needles, duly stabbed

My Ecstasy for LSD,
In quiet dens of Opium
Magic Mushrooms picked for me-
And a sip of amber rum......

Read More

Jane went out with friends
She spent the evening 
After a long drive
She was very tired
Sleeping through the night
In the morn she awoke
With a big surprise
Her pj's had stains
All over her sleep wear
The color was brown
She sniffed the brown stain
From the stained bed sheet
It smelled like chocolate
On her pyjamas
Dried in a big crust....

Read More

a girl,
she plucked off
a rose,
and touched her lips
to the lips of
the rose-
sniffed the fresh smell of
the red rose.

like spring rain it smelled.
like spring rain it smelled.

a lone tear
from morning dew
trickled down
the rose''s
red, red face.

the rose
then fell from
the girl's
hand as she
hurried off to greet
her friends....

Read More

A fox crossed my path in the woods today
  Trotting briskly on a leafy pathway
Of a sudden he jammed on his hind brakes
  Sniffed air redolent of felled trees and clear lakes

I imagine he determined I wasn't a threat
  The fox darted off; I broke out in a sweat...
Put my trusty wheelchair in gear in reverse
  Rolled my way home, composing this verse...

Read More

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,   Random  

                       the blind squirrel sniffed
                  what scent drifted on the breeze
              he found the right spot

         
             Ginsu-Knife     EASTPORT , MAINE  USA


      We all have our different and similar opinions on squirrels
  and other rodents.   I love them.  In many different ways....

Read More

I spotted a lady in Looe,
who slid as she stepped in some poo,
her nose in the air,
she sat on a chair,
and sniffed at the mess on her shoe.

'It's brown and it's squidgy,' she sighed,
'and smells like a ferret has died.'
She wiped on the seat,
and walked up the street,
still stinking, but most dignified. 

written 7th March for Tania's double limerick contest...

Read More

The air was crisp, the trees were bare;
The paths were shoveled clean.
In Central Park today it was
Delightful and serene.

A lonely jogger trotted by;
A nanny pushed her charge.
Some dogs on leashes sniffed and strained;
The cloud-filled sky loomed large.

But mostly it was only me
A'stroll across the park,
Enveloped by the vista
Which was anything but stark....

Read More

Rebecca Grey Hewitt was born to a Grey
But she married herself to a Hewitt today
All the Greys in the country protested this plot
For the Hewitts were common and they were not
They came to the wedding but sat in a bunch
With eyes closed and noses up-they sniffed at the punch
But Rebecca Grew Hewitt did not seem to see
Her eyes were on a Hewitt however common I may be....

Read More

Tight-lipped, tough, the spy
  lives on the cool edge
one side is death
  the other, still breath

He's sniffed the danger
  sensed its pulse, wild
felt its noose slipped over his neck --
  repulsed by its cold wet muzzle   

A-twitch in the shadow of a grave
  heaving up torrents of tears
Each one a mocking witness to how scared
  as hell he is of death and dying...

Read More