The Perfumed Trees
Please click play to hear my Spoken Word of this poem to the music “Somewhere in the Wild” by Saleka, from”The Servant”
Just last night the wind changed direction
and brought the scent
of a scene we played,
on a breezy night,
heavily perfumed with flowers
and it felt so much
like that summer 40 years ago,
when you were in my life,
and I had just begun to be in yours.
We didn’t want to spend the money
so we danced outside the club,
in a dimly lit corner, just under the trees.
When the guitar began to wail,
was when you first kissed me.
Was it because it was the first,
or the perfumed trees,
or that moon- less night
with a heady, sensual breeze?
Sitting tonight in a rocking chair,
I can still rock to the beat of that bass
and feel that kiss that found its home for eternity,
tucked inside my memory, like flowers in a vase
It happens that once in a while, on nights like this
with just the right smell on the breeze
I rock and wonder and remember
our first kiss, below the perfumed trees.
Karima Hoisan
January 29, 2024
Costa Rica
Digital Rabbit Hole 
Lovely, sweet and hot and nostalgic! You’re awfully creative there in your rocking chair. 🙂 And a gorgeous audio track too.
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Hehe * cackles in her rocking chair… thank you so much Dale and I am not done begging you for Ai images, im just letting Miss Karima Avatar be a star hehe a little more snd having fun with antiquated Power Point
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Karima, the vivid nostalgia and sensory details in recalling the first kiss beneath the perfumed trees create such a poignant image. You’ve beautifully captured the essence of that moment in time!
❤
David
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Wow! Thank you so much David so glad you enjoyed my nostalgia 🙏🌹
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lovely memory! ❤️such a good-feeling, heart-touching post💞i have a similar good-feel that comes with a particular memory too. a taste that brings back a whole turning point in my life. i must say that your fragrant trees are way more upbeat!😘🤗🥰 thanks for bringing my attention to that turning point: i have no regrets. it all turned out ok👍🏼🙏🏼 ❤️
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Ahhh it was my pleasure even if it was unconscious, I’m so glad it touched your own spark…Funny how we are called back to a time, a moment with just a shift in the breeze or a special taste that zips us back into our past.. Like you, and we have talked about it,…absolutely no regrets Big hugs!!
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💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻🥰🥰🥰🥰
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A beautiful poem and I adored your verbal poetry. A small poem for you.
” We had just kisses,
we had the tropical moon and
we enough.”
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Yes what moré actually when I was writing this poem I thought of you.. this id your type of a homage to a love from the past. You have many snd you remember them fondly. I have fewer but still very significant for me. We both are nostalgics and romantics… incurable ones 🙃
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What a lovely and touching poem, Karima! First love and first kiss! Nostalgia never fades. And nobody can depict it in words better than you. Every word makes love and emotions alive.
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So glad you listened to this one Kaushal.. First kisses are very special and your words also are very special..Thank you for your good opinon of my writing:) I take them as a very wonderful compliment.
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Truly my pleasure, Karima, you’re welcome:)
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wow 40 years ago … you draw such a vivid vibrant exotic pic of all the senses on high alert 🙂
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Thanks so much for listening Kate. Yes there are smells or songs, that can catapult me back into the past..it all comes back visually like a movie scene, but with all the senses engaged. I think we can all do that now and then..seems a very human trait:)
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yes, a powerful reminder!
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Beautiful poem, Karima! Such beautiful memories!
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Just saw your comment, a month later..sorry Dawn and glad you enjoyed its essence:) Thank you!
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The beauty of the title carries gorgeously into the imagery and emotion of this poem. ❤️
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Wow I somehow missed your comment and I always love your comments, Layla..really glad you enjoyed reading, hearing this one. Thank you!
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Hearing your words brings even more depth to this sultry, romantic poetry that rocks the senses, Karima! Love it❣️
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Thanks again Cindy….wow you almost moved into my blog you have commented on Everything!! Yes I love reciting it to the music that inspired me to write it…a very sensual, cheek to cheek kind of beat:):) Glad you enjoyed listening 🌹🙏🌹
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You’re so welcome.. I always love but have to go back later to respond and take in. I’m near there but save some love for later.. It’s contagious and I can always use more of that❤️
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