Short Wafted Poems

the gentle breeze~

    wafted by it gently...

         caressed me......

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the world lay dreaming
in the jet black still of night
while fragrance wafted...

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“Wake up, breakfast is cooking.”
Bacon in cast iron skillet,
sounds and smells, wafted through the tent.
“Coming”, the crackling bacon got me!...

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Summer’s End
   The closing of a door
   Winter beckons


   Carefree days
   Of sunshine
   Wafted away

   Summer’s warmth
   Chilled  by
   Winter’s wrath



1st September 2013...

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delight wafted in the forest
zipping in and out of shadows
faerie like and pretty

moon smiled with appreciation
enjoying the delicate light and lively moth
feeling honored she shared his name...

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   The leaf wafted down,
   In my side view.
   Landed gently beside me,
   The tree saying, "Howdy Do".
   Misty morning.
   Lots of rain and dew.
   The tree saying good morning.
   Next,
   It will be you!...

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Whatever happened to those days of wine and roses?
when the fragrance of love wafted through our noses.
And each moment was filled with so much joy,
like our childhood days playing with a new toy.
__________________________
...

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Gifts of love grace Spring cabins' still-shivering mantle

   Intoxicant scents wafted into every corner -- covenantal

Luscious colors allure tempt Hope in dreamer's hearts

   ~ 'Till faded petals peel from sere stems, shuttled into anthills...

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everyone watched her walk toward the piano
wondering if she was the maestro
surely not; she was ethereal and lovely,
a goddess, an angel, a heavenly vision
as the notes wafted around the room we knew
she was the maestro, and had been heaven sent...

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Nondescript brown bird of renown,
nightly you serenade me.
Golden dulcet tones flood the woods
and I am wafted far away, 
off into a wondrous dream world
full of mystical creatures.

written 01/13/2015

Contest: Night Creatures 

by Shadow950

5: Nightingale...

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Gone by, so many moments
so many nights and days
Lost in time, those dreamy eyes,
playful smile and the innocent face
First love, first kiss and the heartbreak
a soft wind blew and wafted it away
Bohemian friends, stories to tell
just waved goodbye and left partway....

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As water slowly falls onto
...tiered bamboo pipes,
like gently tipping levers
rhythmic sounds induce peace...

Light breeze astound the senses
aroused from scent of hyacinth,
wafted as a swath of silk,
caressing the skin serenely...
as purpose contemplated.
.....without distractions.......

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smoke wafted up 
from my worried lips
my phone was dead
starbucks doesnt have outlets
we had run for 5 miles that day
so the extra few 
i ran to get home
didnt matter much
the people stared at the musty youth
running in flat shoes

i bet they saw some deadbeat hoodlum in the night
Im a killer without a sense of direction
the same thing I guess...

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If your turning backs were bricks to this craving soul
And your eyes not meeting my searching little windows
Then this bed is a twin to China’s great wall.
Enveloped with scorching breeze
colossal reaching, unheard touches.

Where have all the blazes gone
In every skin-to-skin
In every passionate skim.

Has the apathetic snow wafted the glares?...

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Wending her way westward, wafted on whispering wings
   Sailing serenely southward, slithering past secluded scenes
Nudging northward, noticing narrow, noctilucent moonbeams
   Edging effortlessly eastward, entering ecstasy's eerie baleen...

Grace dillied and dallied, then dithered and doodled and dozed
   Could Heaven's Handiwork save her? ~ Neither angels nor seraphs know...

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I held the SPLENDOR baby
In my LAVENDER night gown
The FRAGRANT baby lit up the room
And turned my world around
The BLISS baby WAFTED
A breath across my face
As it WHISPERED A DULCET ELOQUENCE
That only I can trace
It babbled in a way
So we had this understanding
That the sound of TRANQUILITY LILTING
Was all that his little heart was demanding




FOR WORD WARRIOR CONTEST...

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Listen to poem:

After the rain,
came the smell 
of rain
as the earth
vaporized its
pleasure at
its renewed
fecundity
felt deep within.

The musty scent
of dampness
loaded with aromas
and fragrances,
wafted up from
damp organic stuff.

Wetted by drips
and drops, and
scattered splatter spots
daubed on the
parchment of 
dryness, the smell
of rain arose,
in a spiral,
curling upward....

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For your birthday I give you the sideways articulation
of red-tailed shadows against the 
screaming stop light crush,
The sweat-stained, wine-soaked nights 
Spent nodding into cottons
And a box of dreams felt once then
Unopened and lost.
We’ll sing ether wafted alleys,
robot-kissed breasts
bright ribbons
two-penny condoms-- 
I’d give you the sky if you would speak again
my baby angel...

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A Trixie Belden Mystery Novel!
lost in the bowels of the closet
Opened the missive slowly.

Felt like coming home
Smell you can get nowhere else
From nothing else
Wafted into my nostrils.

The smell of an old friend, 
A book from my childhood
It is not found in any sprays or candles.

Cannot be duplicated, replicated or even hinted at.
The smell of an old, familiar, wonderful childhood book....

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...and with apologies to Tony Bennett.

I smelled a fart in San Francisco,
It wafted out across the Bay.
An Oakland breeze just blew it back,
A tourist gasped, "A gas attack!"
A drag queen shrieked, "Oy vey!
That's gross!", and swooned away.
Who cut that fart in San Francisco
The CIA is keen to see.
If they find out it's from North Korea or Iran,
It could be the fart that started World War III....

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Surreal hallucinations wafted dense,
metaphysical quantities swirled fast,
normal vision opaqued beyond farthing,
neurons rallied electrically in maze,
storey up the ground was holy,
brain had distanced from the body,
dismembered body parts were as yet members,
to keep me whole,
brain still had the control,
mental activity sometimes catpulted in hyper,
body felt left behind,
but the whole felt super....

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Aroma of lilacs wafted to me as I peered in
Feeling the mysticism of magic, sensing hidden faeries
A gentle breeze coaxed me to come a bit closer
Intimidated by the reverence I felt, I held back.

A monarch swished past me, on her way
I heard the trill of a joyful robin and her young ones
Ancestral voices welcomed me, persuaded me to take a step
Inside the magical world of elves, gnomes, faeries, and flowers...

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SUMMER RISPETTO

In gentle flowing waves of soft warm fragrance
It slowly wafted across the summer field
Carrying with it in solemn elegance
A feeling to me that has yet been unstilled
There is no explanation of the warm glow
That enveloped me as it passed by so slow
The onslaught of this wonderful time of year
A time for me that will remain oh so dear

9 July 2018
For the contest sponsored by Barry Stebbings...

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The news slowly wafted past her ears
Not knowing to laugh or show tears
The gut reaction deep in the heart
Only catching drifts as it came apart.

She hoped the news would be good
But only dampened her mood
In spite of the time that went by
Now all she wanted was to cry.

So many ups but lately the down
Wanting to be homeward bound
Another surgery drawing near
Needing to get over hospital fear.


06/06/17...

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Hillbilly Bobby shared his snack with a chickadee
The bird gave out some sounds a toot, a peet and a twee
His relatives came by and wanted bird seed too.
Bobby called in relatives to see what they could do.

They baked up cornbread and threw it onto the ground.
The smell of ham, beans and onions wafted all around.
They ended up feeding the entire chickadee nation.
Now this is an annual October harvest celebration....

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