This landscape is rimmed
with mudflats, salt marshes
and shifting sands.
Stubbly fields smoulder
with an ever-autumnal aura,
tinged with incandescent flames
of purple knapweed
and sky-blue chicory,
bitter and peppery,
spiced up with the sweet perfume
of crushed clover,
wild marjoram and broom.
Kim M. Russell, 2017
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille – Spice
Mish is our host this Monday and she wants us to get spicy. I hope to develop my quickly drafted spice quadrille into something a little more substantial.
writing in north norfolk 
I love the scents of autumn… so many good one, even if you don’t get the spices you describe. I went into the woods to pick mushrooms over the weekend… I hope to pick more next weekend.
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I’ve never been mushroom picking and I’m sure I’d love it. I used to know an expert many years ago. Have fun!
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A heady mix beautifully envisioned here Kim.
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Thank you, Paul!
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You paint a scene of wonderful sights and smells here… I enjoyed this, thanks!
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Thanks for reading and enjoying, Crystal!
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Outstanding, girl. I especially like the mid-section and the first line break.
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🙂
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love all those wonderful scents
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Thank you, Maureen!
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Potpourri caught in the wild. Very evocative.
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Thank you, Charley!
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Wonderfully scented with crisp imagery
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Thanks Jill!
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There is an autumn smell that I think I used to recognize when we lived in the country that I have forgotten today.
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A potpourri of nature … loved this.
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Thanks Margaret!
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I can almost smell the fragrance. Lovely poem!
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Thank you!
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You took me there … and that’s a talent!
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Thank you kindly, Bev!
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I love this already. You took me there…
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Thanks Sarah!
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a cascade of autumn images I can see and smell! Wonderful!
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Thank you, Frank!
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My pleasure, Kim!
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Post-harvest and woodsmoke. You have packed so much autumn into this one, Kim. It’s a fresh time of year, like a second spring, and I personally love the chill in the air, the intimation of winter on its way. Well done.
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🙂
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Love the precision in this – we’re not talking any old autumn landscape here – but the one with the purple knapweed, the clover, the wild marjoram – I can just smell it.
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Love those spicy plant smells!
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Whoa. A true painting with words….and smells, hell all the senses. Really loved this,
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Thanks Jane!
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Super description here. A good number of years ago we did a walk through Provence with a group called The Wayfarers. I distinctly remember there were two very pungent scents that wonderful week: the smell of rosemary (I think that was the spice; may have been thyme?) as we stepped on it as it seemed to be everywhere, and the wonderful scent of that vibrant yellow Broom.
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The power of smell!
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I loved it just as it is!
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Thank you, Annell!
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“…flames of purple knapweed and sky-blue chicory, sound amazing!
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I love walking in nature – forget those manicured gardens!
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Fabulous! 😎😎😎🥀🥀🥀
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Thank so much, Dorna!
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How beautiful… I’d like to inhale a lungful of that!
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I’ll join you!
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I think this is very relaxing, it must be the marjoram. I love the scents and smells.
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I felt like I was floating in an autumn wonderland. Gorgeous.
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Thanks Mish!
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Thanks for sharing you scenery bouquet Kim
much love…
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And much love to you, Gillena xxx
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A rich landscape…this line is great: “tinged with incandescent flames of purple knapweed”
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thanks Janice!
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Wonderful olfactory autumn immersion with a smooth use of alliteration.
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Thanks Victoria!
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Lovely alliteration in this poem. Thanks for sharing! I have a poetry blog here on WordPress and today’s poem is about autumn in case you have time to look? Sunny greetings, Sam 🙂
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Sorry Kim if you are following already – I wasn’t sure..
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I’ll be over soon, Sam!
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