Brenda’s Wordle at Beyond The Bozone including silver, phrase, forever, scars, crescendo, crude, recount, perfume, message, and bottle; also, this works with Poetic Asides’ “Message in a Bottle.”
Cobalt Blue Bottle
Auntie Ruth’s perfume in a cobalt blue bottle
embossed with the phrase, “April in Paris.”
Twirling open the fluted silver cap,
I’d sneak a sniff.
Stronger than a crescendo of crude
on a Texas Tuesday,
the scent still held a message
of forbidden romance (one that might leave scars).
Recounting those afternoons
I used to while away
in Ruthie’s room…
Memories I’ll treasure forever.
© 2011 Amy Barlow Liberatore/Sharp Little Pencil
You can also see this poem at my NaPoWriMo site, Writer’s Island, and, as always, at Poets United. Check out these poets!
Sharp Little Pencil 
brenda w
Amy, This is nostalgic and delightful! Thank you for participating in the wordle. I’m launching a blog on Sunday at 12:01 a.m. for weekly wordles. Here’s a link to the site (I only started work on it today…). There will be a wordle up Sunday. Please join in the fun…and thanks again for this piece. It reminds me of my grandmother and her sister.
~Brenda
brenda w
Amy, This is nostalgic and delightful! Thank you for participating in the wordle. I’m launching a blog on Sunday at 12:01 a.m. for weekly wordles. Here’s a link to the site (I only started work on it today…). There will be a wordle up Sunday. Please join in the fun…and thanks again for this piece. It reminds me of my grandmother and her sister.
~Brenda
http://sundaywhirl.blogspot.com/
Kim Nelson
I get equally profound memory rushes from aromas, scents, odors. I love the experience, most of the time. My mind seems to catalog mainly positives in this file. I like!
Laurie Kolp
Beautiful imagery, Amy… I especially like the second stanza.
~laurie
Betsy
What a great recsuroe this text is.
Elephant Small
So many memories are contained within smells…
annell Livingston
This brings back memories! Nice post!
vivinfrance
How brave you are: I’ve chickened out of most wordles these days. I remember buying “Evening in Paris” for my Mum when I was little. She hated it! Only Chanel for her.
PKP aka Pearl Ketover Prilik
WOW! Truly.. perhaps a bit biased toward love of cobalt.. but twisted fluted … ah the lushness (no pun intended) of the imagery is fabulous … and just “so Amy” YAY on you and on the Stylish Blogger award … if there is a gal on this cybersphere with style to spare it is you, my dear. Congratulations.
Enjoy:)
Sharp Little Pencil
What Stylish Blogger award? Doesn’t matter, I don’t keep track of such things, but stylish? Me? I? Surely they jest. I blog in ripped=out jeans and no makeup, lol.
Glad you love cobalt, too, and the correct name of the perfume was Evening in Paris (mixed up with the song)!! Thanks, Pearl Girl!
Judy Roney
I remember that blue bottle. Mine was Evening in Paris though and I thought I was something when I got my first bottle. LOL Thanks for the memories. How nice that you had and Auntie like Ruthie. Wonderful poem.
http://judyidliketosay.blogspot.com/2011/04/second-thoughts.html
Judy Roney
So sorry you are sick, Amy. Just to let you know your first poem listed wouldn’t show up with that url given.
andy sewina
I love the idea of memories and messages being created by perfume.
Sharp Little Pencil
Yes, I decided to “think outside the bottle,” then back inside the bottle for a different type of message. Thanks, Andy! Amy
Agnija Bharathi
Really like what you did with “Stronger than a crescendo of crude
on a Texas Tuesday”. And I think I can see a cobalt blue bottle in my mind’s eye! PS: Did not realize that you are behind writer’s island. I love that site and thanks for that site!
Sharp Little Pencil
Oh, I’m not “behind” Writer’s Island; that honor belongs to Rob Kistner and others, I believe. But I did decide to make it my NaPoWriMo site for this April because they went with the option of following prompts from other sites or not. So I get a larger range of choices than at other sites.
You know, the line you mentioned was my favorite, too! (blush) Amy
Debbie
This turned out lovely, Amy. You amaze me at how you work the prompts. I need a new brain. ha!
pmwanken
I really liked your wonderfully-crafted poem of wordle words….you had me at “cobalt blue”, but kept me all the way through! Great job!!
Sharp Little Pencil
Paula, thanks so much. I love “you had me at cobalt blue,” so sweet! Amy
Mary
Lovely wordle poem of reminiscence, Amy! I assume it is based on fact. I used to like to smell my aunt’s perfumes too.
Sharp Little Pencil
Yes, but it was “Evening in Paris.” Got it confused with the song, dang. Thanks, hon.
Gloria
Scents can evoke such sweet memories. Mine is my mother’s Chanel #5 that she wore on the very rare occasions that she went out. I truly enjoyed this.
Sharp Little Pencil
Oh, my mom was Tigris cologne with the furry top. Heavenly! Thanks, gloria! Amy
Mr. Walker
“April in Paris” hints at romance, which you reveal more about in the second stanza, but you left me wanting to know more. Why was the romance forbidden? Did it leave scars? I like what you’ve hinted at and left to the reader’s imagination.
Sharp Little Pencil
I leave it to the reader to decide… so you got my point exactly! Thanks for stopping by… A
beespoetry
Wow! What a tumult of memories smell can bring to mind! You captured this so well 😀
Sharp Little Pencil
Thanks, Bridget! Yes, so many memories of Ruthie… Will bop over and see what’s up at the hive… Amy
Madeleine Begun Kane
I really like this, especially the middle crescendo verse.
Sharp Little Pencil
Oh, thank you, Madeleine. I need a laugh – gonna visit you and RJ!
Roger Green
memory comes from all the senses. great choice.
Sharp Little Pencil
So true about memory, Roger. One hint of that cologne and I gag… and smile! (Truly, the bottle was the thing. The perfume inside was noxious as hell…)
christine
Channel #5, will always remind me of Mom. She couldn’t wear perfume, but she did powder her body. I think I feel a post coming on about this.
Happy Easter Amy!
Alice Audrey
Wow, you did a fantastic job of working so many words into such a short, but meaningful poem.
Sharp Little Pencil
Thank you, Alice. I’m not known for my brevity, so this is much appreciated! Amy
Sheila Deeth
Love that sense of scents creating memories.
PKP aka Pearl Ketover Prilik
Ah….Evening in Paris…can feel the weight if that bite in my hand….think one of my baby sitter moms or hmmm her husband gave this to me as a gift….hmmmmm…. Csn still feel that thrill of the silver fluted too and the fragrance…..Paris uncapped! Great poem Ames!
Sharp Little Pencil
Pearl Girl, thanks… and yes, the smell was strong but that damned bottle, so alluring! Amy
PKP aka Pearl Ketover Prilik
Ha ha should have read bottle not bite..! Undoubtedly would have Bern a different memory if bitten especially by the young ” letch” husband! Yuck.
PKP aka Pearl Ketover Prilik
Yes it was Evening in Paris and I read it as such!
Will try to find your Stylish Blogger Award … But do believe I saw it at Buddah’s site where he was awarded same….
Also have a fun poem of mine I think will give you a giggle….
Feel well
happy Easter…..
Sharp Little Pencil
Thanks, Pearl Girl, and have a blessed Easter! Amy