There is no scent like eucalyptus
to bring me back to days of yore
Summer sun sweetly gripped us
as down the road on bikes we tore
No Kookaburra graced our gum trees
though a hawk or two was seen
Smelling its scent wafting on the breeze
brings to mind a most peaceful scene
I settle now for its essential oil
to bring me to a stress-free place
Riding again without turmoil
feeling the sun’s warm embrace
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For Poetics today at dVerse Poets Pub, Grace is calling for poems about scents and the memories they invoke. The scent that evokes the strongest and best memories for me is that of the Eucalyptus tree, which grew along the main road a block from the house I grew up in down in Southern California.