
Familiar Perfume
Lingering in the night air
Conjure a lost dream
Prompt words: Perfume and Lost
Have you ever suddenly smelt a scent that generates a wonderful, vivid memory of a time from your past? Smell, it seems, is capable of triggering the recall of a whole experience which you may have well forgotten.
My travel tip for anyone going to new places is to buy a new perfume (or aftershave) and only wear it for the first time on your trip. When you return, every time you use the remainder it will dredge up wonderful feelings.
Many thanks to those who joined in last week’s prompts of TJ’s Household Haiku of “Leaf and Look”.
Annette Rochelle Aben starts the fun with a haiku pun
https://annetterochelleaben.wordpress.com/2017/07/29/tjs-household-haiku-leaf-look/
Ritu branches out with two lovely haiku
TJ’s Household Haiku – Leaf & Look
Floridaborne is unfazed by the drifting leaves
https://rantingalong.wordpress.com/2017/07/29/tjs-household-haiku-challenge-look-a-leaf/
Jane Dougherty gazes up through a sea of green
https://janedougherty.wordpress.com/2017/07/29/night-leaves/
Magic in the heavens from No Saint Augustine
https://nosaintaugustine.wordpress.com/2017/07/29/pine-chi/
It is the missing leaf that makes Mick E Talbot’s poem so poignant
Three very different types of foliage from Sarah this week with great photos
https://bysarahwhiley.wordpress.com/2017/07/30/looking-at-leaves/
Judy Martin has empowered the flowers
https://www.edwinasepisodes.com/tjs-household-haiku-challenge-look-leaf/
Olga has coupled a wonderful photograph with leaves from a family tree
https://odaciuk.wordpress.com/2017/07/30/tjs-household-haiku-9-leaf-look/
Playing with words is not ready to prune just yet!
Leaves may fall but this Tanka by Storyteller offers the hope of spring
https://storiesto.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/hope-tanka-13/
Charmed Chaos has a bird’s eye view this week
Please do let me know if every I miss your post! Sometimes the comments get a little lost. I will always do my best to include every link.
Please don’t hesitate to join in if you would like. Just add a link to your post in the comment section and tag it “TJ’s Household Haiku” so I can find it easily.
Tj what are our prompt words? Or just using the photo? X
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Oopsie! Just adding them now. 🙂
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Thank you!
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Done 🙂 Hope you have a week of wonderful perfume! 🙂
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Thank you lovely TJ xxx
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Blushing under my beard.
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everyday perfumed
natures aromas… bliss
lost… not forgotten
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What a pretty bottle! The patterns look like Tiger Eye, a kind of precious stone.
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Love that idea about having a special vacation perfume! Thank you for this prompt, here is the shortlink to mine, Lost Haiku:
http://wp.me/p8GM4F-Al
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It really works! Be back in Paris again while you wash the dishes with just one spray! 🙂
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Here you are TJ!
http://butismileanyway.com/2017/08/06/tjs-household-haiku-perfume-lost/
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Thank you!
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http://wp.me/p4ayEo-2jX My short link, in case the ping back doesn’t work
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Hi I did do one last week but it is not there here is the link
https://willowdot21.wordpress.com/2017/07/29/tjs-household-haiku-challenge-look-and-leaf/
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Thanks for another great excuse to ignore the packing cases 🙂
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Ha ha! Hope the move (or future move) goes well. 🙂
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We’re still mending faulty plumbing, rescuing plants, and generally adding to the jobs to do in this house.
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All part of the fun. I am contemplating major renovations at home. Umm…will be contemplating them for a while yet. 🙂
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That sounds as though there are better ways of spending your time. Old is beautiful 🙂
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Absolutely. Dust is a must or is must a must?
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Must is a mysterious word if it even exists (beyond the verb). Everybody knows the ‘musty smell’ image, but what exactly is must? My children say that things smell of must, but I’m not sure they have an idea of what the offending stuff is.
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I thought it was something to do with wine and the stuff left behind but I always associate it with the lovely smell of old books 🙂
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The moût, hadn’t thought of that. But you’re right, it isn’t a grapey smell, much more like old books.
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My entry for last week was not shown here is the Pingback.
https://willowdot21.wordpress.com/2017/07/29/tjs-household-haiku-challenge-look-and-leaf/
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Merci beaucoup!
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☺️🎈🌹
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Three this week! Making up for lost time 🙂
https://janedougherty.wordpress.com/2017/08/06/haiku-challenge-perfume-and-lost/
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Lovely! ’tis a busy time of the year.
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Thank you! And it’s going to get even busier!
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Oh Lord! So glad you still have a chance to express your poetic side as you hurtle along! 🙂
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The boxes arrive on Wednesday, so I imagine poetry will have to come in very quick, lucid bursts 🙂
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Hope by now you are settling in properly to you new bijoux residence. 🙂
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We’re still packing boxes and the house can no way be described as bijou! Primitive, basic, uncomfortable…but not bijou 🙂
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Oh dear! I am sure you will make it lovely.
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Eventually…
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Such romantic words this week. Here is my efforts short link http://wp.me/p3ZFSi-1zz
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Merci monsieur.
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I had to abandon a number of wonderful (expensive) designer perfumes over the decades–as you’ve noted, fragrance is a powerful trigger, whether of positive or negative associations, memories. Fabulous prompt words…
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So odd that a smell can provoke such a range of feelings. The senses are amazing and strange things.
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Very much so.
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Lovely, evocative haiku TJ. Here is my link in case the pingback fails 🙂
https://www.edwinasepisodes.com/tjs-household-haiku-perfume-lost/
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Many thanks for liking the haiku. Hope you have a great week.
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Thank you TJ. I hope you have a lovely week too 🙂
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🙂
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https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2017/08/07/flowers-2/
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Hello TJ! Here is my take on the prompt- hope your week is wonderful! https://charmedchaos.com/2017/08/07/haiku-53-perfume-lost/
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Thanks so much! Best wishes to you!
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You as well!
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Here ya go:
https://godschair.wordpress.com/2017/08/07/haunting-perfume-lost/
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Merci mon ami.
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Most welcome 🙂
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Hi Tim. I decided to use the word ‘scent’. Reminded me of strawberry fields forever in early childhood. https://odaciuk.wordpress.com/2017/08/07/tjs-household-haiku-perfume-scentlost/
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Lovely idea.
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So sad I missed last week TJ. Work was a bear. But I am getting home at a more respectable time…and time for writing. ❤️ Here’s my take this week.
https://katmyrman.com/2017/08/08/lost-perfume-a-haiku/
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So lovely to have you back again. I can perfectly understand about work. It seems a mad time of the year.
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