SCENTS

 From Life Is a Garden Party, Vol IV,

available via Amazon.

SCENTS!

Ahhhhh!

The spring scent of daffodils

wafting upward always thrills.

Yellow with their center frill,

or even white, pleases still.

Enjoy today. It will be 11 months until

they bloom again – their scent reminding us of spring, it will.

The spicy aroma of lilacs.

Alluring and liked by most a lot.

You must plant one in your garden plot.

Then water before it gets too hot.

In white, lavender, and purple; pots

are found in the local nursery lot.

The sweet fragrance of pink peonies.

You won’t need to get down on your knees.

Their fragrance is known, you see,

by you and me and buzzing bees.

Pick a pink bouquet and invite me

to come over for a cup of tea.

The perfume of blooming roses

delighting everyone’s noses.

Do they realize their sweet message, suppose,

of saying “I love you” – or so the saying goes.

Think of that tonight as you doze.

You are loved, from your head to your toes.

The heady smell of tomatoes.

A seasoned gardener just knows.

He plants a row

then late summer stows

as into jars go

like new-found "dough."

The essence of pepper plants.

To wait, you do not want.

In salad or in sauce you pant.

To have too many you just can’t.

Red, yellow, green, orange colored transplants.

Mild, hot, hotter flavored. Ahhhhh....rant! Pant!!!

What is that whiff

that I sniff?

It surely reeks.

Someone shrieks!

Not a mink or a skink.

This whiff (p-u) stinks!

Watch out! Skunk!

That punk left a funk.

Ahhhhh Choo!

* * * * *

God made many scents and fragrances for our enjoyment

and He gave us common sense, for our safety meant.

Most garden scents are pleasant becoming an acquaintance

for when you get a whiff you’ll recall a pleasurable fragrance.

Some scents warn us of danger – to beware.

If you’re not aware, a skunk’s scent you will wear.

Common sense also tells us to be aware.

It tells us to make good decisions, to care.

Those without much sense make errors in judgment.

Those with sense are known to be intelligent.

God’s Holy Spirit, which dwells within,

will guide us in making right decisions.

The Holy Spirit is our conscience,

our voice of reasoning that makes sense.

…have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Hebrews 5:14 (KJV)

Do not be misled:

"Bad company corrupts good character."

Come back to your senses as you ought,

and stop sinning.

I Corinthians 15:33-34

But thanks be to God,

who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ

and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance

of the knowledge of him.

For we are to God the aroma of Christ

among those who are being saved

and those who are perishing.

II Corinthians 2:14-16

Live a life of love,

just as Christ loved us

and gave himself up for us

as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 5:2

A fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice.

Pleasing to God.

Philippians 4:18b

Let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise -

the fruit of lips that confess his name.

Hebrews 13:15