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Zywa Sep 2024
It's beautiful stuff,

this pale yellow braided rope --


I smell retsina.
Novel "The sea, the sea" (1978, Iris Murdoch)

Collection "Unspoken"
MetaVerse Aug 2024
Antique
paper
& ink
& glue,
a fragrance
I drink
in through
my nose,
fragrant
like a dead rose.
I fan my face,
& fall into
an antique book
aroma coma.
neth jones Aug 2024
. ****** toss block
(evergreen  with enzymes)
  irks the mucus membranes
found text anti haiku

text from a box of ****** pucks :

big D non-para
          ****** Toss Block
           Evergreen w/Enzymes
           One Dozen

May be harmful if inhaled. Material may be irritating to mucus membranes and upper respiratory tract….
Why do books smell so good?
I know, I know the chemical truth
But ever wonder if its because the planet approves?
what if mother earth agrees with the use
cut my child down but write wonderful prose
dream a million things and use the pages to be verbose
explain something carefully, like mother nature would
if she could speak, and now she does, through books
I love the smell of books, new and old. What about you?
Mark Wanless Aug 2023
the scents of god l
smell and will follow them all
to my mind center
Manx May 2023
Staring at gravestones
Wondering what it is to
Exist, no longer.
Smell of sulfur,
Feel of bone;
Still as water.
Zywa Jan 2023
After a few years,

his love is dull, his smell not --


pleasant anymore.
"Verwachtingen" ("Expectations", 2022, Thomas Heerma van Voss)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 20s and 30s"
neth jones Dec 2022
eyes are
quite gelatine
mending bubbly detail
mocking  up  fact   to suit user
/the ears ?  crinkled dishes of pinkened veins
robbing blood to probe the gossip
/digits  bud on the feed
in polyp growth
******
and ****** a
pepper mill from off the
coffee table/tongue  leeches lips
retaining massaged notes from food oils past
/spatting nostrils   puncture the air
punching out breath purling
inhale a stressed
report
Zywa Nov 2022
She doesn't want to smell

like she does smell now, unwashed --


It's turning men on.
"Farah Mills" (2017, Ivo Victoria)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s and 10s"
Brandon Sep 2022
open wide
as filth falls with slugged flow
putrid lies fog our eyes
the stench clinging to nostrils
infiltrating minds
altering our reality
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