Redolence

Redolence

You leave – yet still your scent remains
and holds me in its perfumed chains.
I struggle but there's no defense.
My days are filled with your incense.

I close my eyes and you are there.
Your piquant essence fills the air
as desire's flames grow more intense.
My days are filled with your incense.

Your fragrant skin, a sweet bouquet
that lingers with me night and day,
ensnares me with its redolence.
My days are filled with your incense.

You leave – yet still your scent remains.
My days are filled with your incense.


Notes
Lesson 2 for "HSP ~ Excite When You Write"  [18+]
Focus: Sense of smell

redolence ~ having a pleasant odor; fragrant.
piquant ~ stimulating, interesting, or attractive

Form: A Kyrielle Sonnet consists of 14 lines (three rhyming quatrain stanzas and a non-rhyming couplet). The Kyrielle Sonnet has a repeating line or phrase as a refrain. Each line consists of only eight syllables. French poetry forms have a tendency to link back to the beginning of the poem, so common practice is to use the first and last line of the first quatrain as the ending couplet. A good rhyming scheme for a Kyrielle Sonnet would be: AabB, ccbB, ddbB, AB


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Ken