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Mark Wanless Mar 2021
dear god i am but
a nose wafting in the scent
of your effluence
Shofi Ahmed Jan 2021
I sniffed a smell of your rose.
Oh, you know what?
It’s enough to thrill the bone.
Just leave a scent in the air
and pop in, take your turn
into a new buzzing centre!
Paul Idiaghe Dec 2020
There’s a holocaust
sweeping through my body
but i call it
love,

strap myself to its stake
as a sacrifice, relish
how its fire

dignifies me,
how the tongue-like torso  
of my scent
rolls out to taste
God.

You, with the hot air
for hair, you
with the sparking skin,
feed my flames,
you

hearteater, the mouths
on your cheeks
open wide
& I enter, as if to join
the rest of me; see

how all that is left
circulating in my veins
is your voice; my body,
now inanimate,

an instrument for your
heartsong—hear
its cinders sing like
cicadas—here

is the sequel to your stones
thrice striked.
eleanor prince Dec 2020
in the wisps of mist
stroking the curves
of a sleeping mountain
I hear a call

husky tones
siphoned off
by a cold wind
mocking

I see you still
as a filtered moon
drifts over my lashes
quivering

like the scent of you
as we dance
skin to skin
close
a Nov 2020
love in the air
i sniff it all up
get high off the drugs
its love in the air

love in the air
can you feel that tension?
getting high off your sweetness
you're finally showing you care

love in the air
overwhelmingly
so

the smell of tenderness sweethearts
lavender and roses
alarmingly strong it stays in my mind

love in the air
passion and open
respectable love
im sniffing it up
breathing it all
oh my
the love is in the air.
Ube Nov 2020
Grandmother's last day
will shine brighter than before
towards the window
where the flowers bloom with scents
where the fragrance follows her
First attempt at a tanka poem.
Mitch Prax Oct 2020
I never liked the
smell of tea tree until I
smelt it in her hair

8:32 PM
19/10/20
Orakhal Oct 2020
the pursuit
of life

thru thought
alone

is like following
a scent

to find
your nose
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