Monday, June 19, 2017

peppermint

in her leather purse
she always had peppermints
for a variety of remedies and
I knew where she kept them
even when I had too many
she would never scold me
but now she’s gone leaving
me with warm memories
of that nostalgic scent


11 comments:

  1. It is nice how peppermint reminds you of someone from the past. I think I associate people with foods I rarely eat except when they were present.

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  2. Love the memories...my grandma would give us 2 pink peppermints for church :)

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  3. what a sweet memory...nostalgic scent indeed!

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  4. How nice to have that memory from such a scent

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  5. Smells are so good for evoking memories - peppermint reminds me of my grandfather. Your poem did the same for me this morning - thank you.

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  6. This is wonderfully redolent!❤️

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  7. It's true isn't it? My grandmother, who lived in Florida, always wore orange blossom perfume...the kind you could get a the gift shop which we always stopped at as we crossed the state line, driving to visit her each summer. To this day, when I peel an orange, I think of her because of that scent! :)

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  8. It must've been a loving grandma who kept the mints in her purse. What a nice memory.

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  9. Oh, this one got me. Yesterday, I was going through some of my mom's purses and she used to carry cloves to sweeten her breath. I just had to stand there and breath that heady scent before getting the purses ready to donate. Sigh.

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  10. I love the memories of that scent of peppermints ~

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