"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
Eckhart Tolle

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

we write poems #22 what's for dinner

Coco
Take your lover in your arms
Change the colours
to black and white
Chanel No. 5
Grasse
Eyedropper of oil
with
flowers, rose du mai, jasmine,
and a synthetic musk
'a concrete' to 'an absolute'
Blend to create a scent for the world
A memory is stirred by the trace of a bouquet
Chanel No. 5
A millinery girl with flair

19 comments:

  1. What a lovely sensual recipe, Pamela! Love is in the air.

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  2. Pamela, your recipe is indeed 'scent-ual' as well as delightful.

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  3. Diane, nice comment!

    I like how you used a perfume to tell a story, Pamela.

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  4. Refreshing! This made me think of the movie.

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  5. Like all of the scents you used to make sense of your story. Great recipe,

    Elizabeth

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  6. What fun to read of the scents of the world and what makes the milinery girl with a flair who she is. Beautiful.

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  7. Thanks Mary! I wasn't sure where to go with this prompt!
    Pamela

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  8. Thanks for saying so Diane!
    Pamela

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  9. Thanks Tilly!
    I had some trouble getting this one done. I just recently saw the movie about Coco and Igor and decided I would write about perfume.
    Pamela

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  10. Thanks Irene! I enjoyed that movie and it gave me this idea.
    Pamela

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  11. Oh, this is really smelly (in a good way). Salute.

    Side note: On first read, I saw "military girl." Wow. Double take.

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  12. A sensual poem that's delightful.

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  13. Sense of smell is so sensual. You depicted that well here!

    a subtle hint

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  14. the power of perfume.... we all gotta start somewhere.. you have created a wonderful scene...

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