Hello, Word Artists and Admirers! Ever notice how some scents just bring you back to a specific time or place? Although I don’t eat it much at all these days, the smell of sausage cooking reminds me of Sunday mornings when I was growing up and my mom having a little time to make a hearty breakfast before heading off to mass. Some scents can also evoke very specific feelings too. For instance, the scent released when water first touches matcha always makes me feel relaxed.
For today’s optional prompt, I invite you to incorporate the
sense of smell somewhere into your piece. I'm taking poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction. Just be sure to keep your entries to 369 words or fewer and one entry per person.
Next week, Magaly will invite you to create poetry or prose which includes the following words: storm, ink, love.
For those living in the Southern Hemisphere enjoy the Rustle of Spring weather...for everyone else ,enjoy the weekend !......Rall
ReplyDeleteIt's rainy and not quite feeling like fall here in Eastern PA. Summer still has more it wants to say, LOL
DeleteSo does winter here! After some lovely warm weather we've just gone back into a cold spell.
DeleteA prompt to get our noses twitching! Best thanks.
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome :)
DeleteGreetings Rommy And All,
ReplyDeleteSorry I don’t have a smelly poem for you tonight! But I have this - Only just released on the website now to say a fond farewell to the Summer. With plenty blessings in my pocket, getting ready now to hunker down for the Autumn/Fall and whatever the future might bring…
Hope it touches you… and, as ever, look forward to reading your new stuff too…
I'm trying to wrap my brain around how we got to September so fast!
DeleteSorry, should have said this is Scott Hastie - doesn't seem to like my URL or let me Log in with my Google account - something to do with security features and settings on my Mac I think! Very unfortunate. For that reason posting comments on some pages was equally frustrating. So have copied them out below for you, so I could at least express my admiration tonight, before I'm out watering the lawns!
ReplyDeleteRall – Such gentle but beautiful and bejewelled writing, Rall – altogetherdeliciously soothing Thankyou
Jae Rose - Resonate with this very much – you bring it so to life. Lovely gently visceral work
Ollie – artfully seductive piece… I’d love to be there…
Thanks for making sure to get your comments to folks Scott!
DeleteDevon Violets were the inspiration for me here, and the 'nose in my mind' is still able to smell that perfume. Thanks for the nudge to do a long overdue edit on my original poem ♥
ReplyDeleteIt will be months before the violets come around here again, so I welcome the suggestion of their fragrance before I head into fall.
DeleteBe assured there will be responses to the prompt more fragrant than mine. (It was fun, though!)
ReplyDeleteBut I love garlic!
DeleteA prompt with potential. Thank you. And next week's 'storms of inky love' - even better!
ReplyDeleteThat does look pretty promising!
DeleteThis is a message for Rall, Jae Rose and The Fifth Monk - really enjoyed all your poems, all the lovely moments you describe and each sensory detail.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, I wasn't able to comment on your blogs for some reason. I did try and subscribe to post a comment but for some reason it won't let me. Hopefully you'll see this message :-)
Thanks for a lovely prompt, Rommy! :-)
Hi Sunra Rainz - the reason you can't comment might be that those blogs are set up to accept comments from Google accounts only. And the blue button 'Click to sign on with Google' doesn't work with older versions on Google. You might need Chrome.
DeleteLovely!
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