Backyard lilac walk-about
honeysuckle and new cut grass
leaves piled high, burning bright
apple-pie-oven and baking bread
grandma’s wrinkled talcum skin
gingerbread men and cinnamon
outside pine tree brought within
season by season,
scentalicious all
Written for dVerse Poets’ Pub with Grace tending bar today. Today’s Poetics asks us to write a poem about scent.
lillian the home poet 
I love how you transported me around the seasons… gingerbread and talcum skin… I could feel those scents tickling my nose…
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Aromatherapy! 🙂
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Some of my favourite scents right there – so difficult to choose amongst them! Best be greedy and have them all!
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Happy to provide a cornucopia of delights!
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I love the scents in this – new cut grass, cinnamon, talcumed skin….I know all these scents so very well and this just takes me back, way back.
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Ah….a nostagia of aromatherapy! 🙂
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Such warm and cosy memories. Mmmm… apple pie oven!
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Nothing better than that delicious sniff of fresh apple pie right out of the oven! 🙂
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Such warm feelings come across in all the right homey places. Love Grandma’s talcum skin!
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She was a special lady for me 🙂
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A cornucopia of scents – lovely, Lillian!
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Glad you enjoyed!
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Very seasonal scents.
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Each season has its memories — so many triggered by their aromas.
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Oh my, but you did deliver my childhood with this one, Lillian! Lilacs and gingerbread and I love this great bit of imagery!
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So glad you enjoyed, Jilly!
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I am inhaling all the lovely scents – apple pie, bread, lilacs, cinnamon~
I love all the smells from your childhood !
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They are scentalicious! 🙂
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A scent-laden journey through the seasons–delicious, delightful indeed.
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Ah, thank you Victoria! Involved with grandkids these past few days. Awake in the middle of the night for a bit — shall finally do my dVerse reading tomorrow. Always look forward to seeing yours! I shall get there — albeit late to the bar.
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Great title! I love the passage of seasons and grandma in the middle.
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Smiling I am. So glad you enjoyed, Linda.
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Delightful Lillian….caught each scent..
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A few delicious sniffs through the blogosphere! 🙂
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You captured so much deliciousness in this 🙂
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So glad you enjoyed ! Fun to think of those wonderful aromas of the seasons.
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Your senses seem to be poetically on point. I can smell the ginger bread and pine
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Those are memories from our family holiday time. Winter so much sweeter with those scents! 🙂
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The epitome of a perfumed poem. Every word delightful.
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…and delighted I am at your words here! 🙂 Thank you!
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I love the picture you produced. Good one. 😀
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A picture for our senses 🙂 Glad you liked it!
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Oh this is absolutely delightful, Lillian 😀
Beautifully expressed.
Lots of love,
Sanaa
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Thank you, Sanaa. Have had a number of days with grandchildren….so this morning I shall be doing my reading. Looking forward to seeing your take on this prompt. Happy summer! 🙂
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Happy olfactory memories brought to mind…enjoyed this!
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Sometimes scents are the best triggers! 🙂
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Scentalicious indeed! Such lovely memories to recall.. Lovely piece, Lillian 🙂
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Glad to take you on a little scentalicious ride! 🙂
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A delight! I went “Grandma” with mine, too 🙂
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Thank you, Jennifer! Have been with grandkids for a few days — so shall finally get to my dVerse reading in the moring. Looking forward to meeting your grandma there 🙂
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These all sound wonderful. Burned out the olfactory early in my youth and have no sense of smell. I’ll take your word on this, Lillian!
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Glad to tickle your imagination then! Been with grandkids for a few days — so shall get to my dVerse reading in the morning. Looking forward to seeing your take on this prompt — it was a fun one!
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Ah, now my senses are spoiled! Very nice piece, Lillian! 🙂
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Ah….happy to be the spoiler for you! Glad you enjoyed.
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🙂
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You said it: “scentalicious!” (Although my spelchek don’t like it.) Totally enjoyable!
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Ah yes. It’s fun to make up words….and it just seems that scentalicious should be one. Right? 🙂
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Love the myriad of aromas here! 🙂
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Glad you enjoyed, Mish. Have been joyful with my grandchildren the past few days — so very very late to my reading. Coming round this morning — looking forward to seeing your take on this lovely prompt.
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