I'm Getting A Sniffy Whiff
What's that godawful smell, Hamlet?12 total reviews
Comment from Susan Morritt
This is very clever and made me laugh. Especially the reference to Denmark... So nice to read something lighthearted and not full of itself. Good job and good luck in the contest!
Susan
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This is very clever and made me laugh. Especially the reference to Denmark... So nice to read something lighthearted and not full of itself. Good job and good luck in the contest!
Susan
Comment Written 05-Nov-2019
Comment from CrystieCookie999
This is clever and borders on hilarious. What the olfactory sense senses is not a bed of roses, according to the speaker in the poem. Back in Shakespeare's era there was more decay and foul-smelling things, often referred to in plays, as per the line: king's corpses, plague poultices, decay, drains, your foul farts.
Super Senses entry.
reply by the author on 04-Nov-2019
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This is clever and borders on hilarious. What the olfactory sense senses is not a bed of roses, according to the speaker in the poem. Back in Shakespeare's era there was more decay and foul-smelling things, often referred to in plays, as per the line: king's corpses, plague poultices, decay, drains, your foul farts.
Super Senses entry.
Comment Written 04-Nov-2019
reply by the author on 04-Nov-2019
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I'm glad I didn't live back then, what a smelly environment to endure. I would've needed smelling salts regularly.
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Seriously. I think one sign of witchcraft in some remote area was that someone liked to bathe regularly. So many people did not even try to smell clean and fresh, just 'better.'
Comment from Elaine Chiodi
Your free-versing poetry hits the mark, very well thought out and described. Fits the prompt perfectly, and is a great entry for the contest... ...ec
reply by the author on 04-Nov-2019
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Your free-versing poetry hits the mark, very well thought out and described. Fits the prompt perfectly, and is a great entry for the contest... ...ec
Comment Written 04-Nov-2019
reply by the author on 04-Nov-2019
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I'm pleased you found this poem entertaining. Thanks for your review.
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Your'e very welcome... ...ec
Comment from Sharon Haiste
I think this is a good entry for the Senses Poetry contest.
You have described the smell and scents.
Well done and good luck to you with the contest.
Sharon
reply by the author on 05-Nov-2019
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I think this is a good entry for the Senses Poetry contest.
You have described the smell and scents.
Well done and good luck to you with the contest.
Sharon
Comment Written 04-Nov-2019
reply by the author on 05-Nov-2019
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Thanks for your review. I'm glad I don't live back in those smelly days.
Comment from Sandra du Plessis
A very well-written poem about the sense of smell. We can smell the sweet fragrance of a rose that makes us feel so good of the foul smell of stinky feet that makes us sick.
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A very well-written poem about the sense of smell. We can smell the sweet fragrance of a rose that makes us feel so good of the foul smell of stinky feet that makes us sick.
Comment Written 04-Nov-2019
Comment from Susan Larson
One has to wonder back in those days, was all the air wreaking of awful odors such as decay, drains, and foul farts? As we put up with noise pollution and eyesores like trash along the highways, did people then have to endure stink pollution? Or did they just get immune to it? Or did their sense of smell become so keen that among all the other competing whiffs of stench, they could correctly identify the smell of a rat? Just wondering.
reply by the author on 04-Nov-2019
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One has to wonder back in those days, was all the air wreaking of awful odors such as decay, drains, and foul farts? As we put up with noise pollution and eyesores like trash along the highways, did people then have to endure stink pollution? Or did they just get immune to it? Or did their sense of smell become so keen that among all the other competing whiffs of stench, they could correctly identify the smell of a rat? Just wondering.
Comment Written 04-Nov-2019
reply by the author on 04-Nov-2019
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To cope with all the stinks they used to carry little bottles of 'smelling salts' that they'd have a sniff of to disguise the bad odours if they were walking past a sewer or a drain. The ladies also pinned small bunches of flowers, called 'nose-gays', to the bodices of their dresses so they could get a nicer scent. They's also burn sweet scented wood, a bit like incense. I guess with a sense of smell, it can either be overwhelmed or develop a higher ability to differentiate.
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Interesting. I didn't know where the term nosegay came from.
Comment from Janice Canerdy
I really like this one. Along with the Renaissance "flavor," you have listed a number of unpleasant--to put it mildly! LOL!--odors. You have certainly
met the prompt requirements by listing things that would be smelled before they would be seen!
reply by the author on 04-Nov-2019
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I really like this one. Along with the Renaissance "flavor," you have listed a number of unpleasant--to put it mildly! LOL!--odors. You have certainly
met the prompt requirements by listing things that would be smelled before they would be seen!
Comment Written 04-Nov-2019
reply by the author on 04-Nov-2019
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Thanks for your review. Sorry those odors were so offputtingly smelly!
Comment from Mystic Angel 7777
This meets the contest requirements splendidly as you deliver a ten line Free Verse on the sense of smell. Using Shakespeare was a clever way in which to approach the prompt since, as you piece so eloquently enumerates, he often referenced smell in his writings. Good luck in the voting and thank you very much for sharing it.
reply by the author on 04-Nov-2019
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This meets the contest requirements splendidly as you deliver a ten line Free Verse on the sense of smell. Using Shakespeare was a clever way in which to approach the prompt since, as you piece so eloquently enumerates, he often referenced smell in his writings. Good luck in the voting and thank you very much for sharing it.
Comment Written 04-Nov-2019
reply by the author on 04-Nov-2019
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Shakespeare was so good at descriptive passages.
Thanks for reviewing my feeble attempt.
Comment from Mimi Linny
Hysterically funny piece on the sense of smell... The words used are so aromatically chosen to perfection that they lend the hardiest of chuckles to its synopsis... " Something is rotten, not just in Denmark, Mr Shakespeare.
I smell a rat." Great job! Much luck in the contest!
reply by the author on 04-Nov-2019
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Hysterically funny piece on the sense of smell... The words used are so aromatically chosen to perfection that they lend the hardiest of chuckles to its synopsis... " Something is rotten, not just in Denmark, Mr Shakespeare.
I smell a rat." Great job! Much luck in the contest!
Comment Written 04-Nov-2019
reply by the author on 04-Nov-2019
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Thanks so much for your appreciative review with that generous rating. Methinks thou doth approve.
Comment from brenda bickers
Hi there,
I love your comical approach to this challenge.
Your words and phrasings are so funny.
There are some smells we wish we never had
to endure. I know, I have two dogs.
This is great.
Brenda.x
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reply by the author on 04-Nov-2019
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Hi there,
I love your comical approach to this challenge.
Your words and phrasings are so funny.
There are some smells we wish we never had
to endure. I know, I have two dogs.
This is great.
Brenda.x
This rating does not count towards story rating or author rank.
The highest and the lowest rating are not included in calculations.
Comment Written 04-Nov-2019
reply by the author on 04-Nov-2019
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Glad you like my smelly poem! Thanks for reviewing.
Dogs can be responsible for some rather strange odors.
