The Nose Knows

Osmophobia/oz-moe-FOE-bee-uh/ Noun – Intolerance of or hypersensitivity to smells, also: aversion to or dislike of odors.

     Fear the lowly skunk

     The nose knows about bad smells

     Osmophobia

An Aerial Busby Berkeley Show

Murmuration \murm-uh-RAY-shun\ Noun – 1: the act of murmuring: the utterance of low continuous sounds or complaining noises 2: A flock of starlings: usually flying in large formations.

     Synchronized in flight.

     Murmuration of starlings.

     Tiny sky dancers.

Busby Berkeley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busby_Berkeley

Pathos on the Classroom Floor

Oh, man.

A friend who teaches middle school found this note on her classroom floor. Not much could be more evocative and pang-inducing than this.

     A cry from the heart

     Read pathos between the lines.

     Hi. Do you like me?

Shades of Dan Fogelberg's “Another Ald Lang Syne:”

     Just for a moment, I was back at school.

     And felt that old, familiar pain.

Happy National National Onion Day!

The sweet onion clan

Walla Walla, Vidalia

A tasty debate

https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-onion-day-june-27/

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Happy National Haiku Poetry Day!

These little poems

Challenge creative juices

And dreams of beauty

 

#NationalHaikuPoetryDay 

https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-haiku-poetry-day-april-17/

I Talk to the Trees…

Psithurism /SITH-yuh-rizz-um/ Noun – A rustling or whispering sound, such as leaves in the wind; susurration.

 

     Soft forest breezes

     Sweet, sighing psitherism

     Trees’ whispered love song

The King Has No Clothes...

Fabulist /FAB-yuh-list/ Noun – 1: a creator or writer of fables 2: Liar

See the fabulist

Claims to be truthful prophet

Look! He wears no clothes