Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Honeysuckle vine..



















Happy New Year all! It is a new beginning for d'Verse Poets and out first prompt is offered by Kelly. It is to write about scents that linger.                                                            
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Honeysuckle roots,
milked oxygen from rich soil,
nursed by a willow
tree nearby, gave birth to blooms, 
exhaled rose-scented fragrance 

 Recall a corsage,
shadowed petals pink and white, 
opened by sweet youth,
heaven's nectar to seduce 
bees and buoyant hummingbirds


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16 comments:

  1. mrs mediocrityJanuary 5, 2016 at 8:03 PM

    Mmmm, I can smell it, you made me long for open windows and breezes on my toes. A lovely break on a cold, cold day.

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  2. Sabio LantzJanuary 5, 2016 at 8:42 PM

    cool mix of poetic images around the same flower

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  3. BodhiroseJanuary 5, 2016 at 9:11 PM

    I like how the Honeysuckle vine was nursed by the Willow tree...beautiful images in these two verses. This took me back to the one and only time I ever wore a corsage...to prom with a boyfriend.

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  4. brudbergJanuary 5, 2016 at 11:53 PM

    I really love the smell of honeysuckle - it's all the good of early summer nights to me.

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  5. Marina SofiaJanuary 6, 2016 at 1:23 AM

    Aaaah, how lovely - we had a honeysuckle in the back garden, scenting all the barbecue parties, driving people a bit drunk, like the Lotus-Eaters in the Odyssey, I always thought. It's an addictive smell, perhaps because we do associate it with the taste of honey.

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  6. Sanaa RizviJanuary 6, 2016 at 1:42 AM

    Love this - especially "heaven's nectar to seduce bees and buoyant hummingbirds."
    Beautifully put :D


    Lots of love,
    Sanaa

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  7. Glenn ButtkusJanuary 6, 2016 at 7:05 AM

    As I understand it, there are several varieties of honeysuckle, some like miniature roses, vines, bushes. I wonder if their scent varies, or does the pleasant sweet odor seem similar? Just wondering. You rocked the prompt in short order; first thought these stanzas were tanka.

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    1. Kathy ReedJanuary 6, 2016 at 6:42 PM

      I thought I was writing tanka...it doesn't qualify?;)

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    2. Kathy ReedJanuary 6, 2016 at 6:44 PM

      I'm quite sure the fragrances vary, but the most common here is very strong and sweet.

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  8. MaryJanuary 6, 2016 at 7:41 AM

    Ah, what a lovely scent you have described SO well.

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  9. GraceJanuary 6, 2016 at 9:50 AM

    I just love that smell of honeysuckle and corsage so freshly plucked from the garden ~ I am now looking forward to spring season ~

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  10. AnonymousJanuary 6, 2016 at 1:18 PM

    Beautiful set of images. They transported me to a shiny spring day.

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  11. Katie Mia FrederickJanuary 6, 2016 at 2:06 PM

    FloWers
    'round.. smell
    pure and clean..
    many dreams
    so trUe
    and fAir..
    aWay froM
    spOils.. dArk
    smeLLs faDe oFF..:)

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  12. Roslyn RossJanuary 6, 2016 at 6:38 PM

    Wonderful images - coherent beauty.

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  13. vivinfranceJanuary 7, 2016 at 7:12 AM

    Gorgeous and summery - specially in this wintry season

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