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Souvenir Pois de Senteur

Updated on December 12, 2012

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Antique print from painting by Laurence Perugini, "Sweet Peas", printed in Switzerland, c.1930
Antique print from painting by Laurence Perugini, "Sweet Peas", printed in Switzerland, c.1930 | Source


What is a souvenir? A simple definition is:

“A thing that is kept as a reminder of a person, place, or event.”


Whether souvenirs are actual 'things' or mere heartfelt mementos of romantic scenarios and encounters or of travels to exotic and haunting places, or even of brief memorable moments when we had accomplished things or been honored somehow, they become treasures of our hearts, and may be found among our keepsake treasure troves, even among our poetry.



Some souvenirs may be limp old report cards or autograph books from grade school, college yearbooks or faded valentines from long ago. Yellowing letters tied with ribbons, pressed flowers from a prom corsage, the program from a first-ever symphony performance: - precious reminders, whether in our mind’s eye or with actual evidence. Less tangible, a scent we loved when we were dating someone, or "our song" can qualify. The list is limitless.




I come from a long line of souvenir-savers. So remembering mine has stirred warm feelings. I think I'll indulge those. You're welcome to join me.









Were it not for memory

Morning's glory

Would be less dear.


The whiff of ecstasy

It brings on silken wings

Would be less real.


Its wistful history

Of those other springs,

Like drops of molten gold

I can view from here

Are the more precious

When kept near

In poignant memory

Among my souvenirs.


______© Nellieanna H. Hay



Demis Roussos "From Souvenirs To Souvenirs"

The Old House


The end of this approaches.

This place, once mine,

Never to be the same again,

Though it will ever be as fine

To shine in memory,

Where seasons come 'round annually

And visions flow eternally.


You accept change graciously

As horizon swallows sun

At close of days.


Now you let me go

Gently toward my tomorrows

Toward unknown paths and ways.


And so ~

I'll take a souvenir of you.


______© Nellieanna H. Hay



A cameo

Carved upon my memory

Of your own face

Is ever present, pleasant

Warm and golden,

Pale and cool,

Like you.


______© Nellieanna H. Hay

Riddling Into Destiny


People come

And people go

Where they went

We may not know.


But when a person

Still abides

He is the sunrise

And the tides.


His voice is thunder,

His tears are rain.

He leaves but once,

Returns again.


His absence rips

All partial gain.

From distant worlds

His shadow rises

In quiet moments

His fragrance clings.

His look chastises.


But n'er to n'er

Will he become.

His name is on

A graven stone.


When it is time

He'll be revealed

Till then a mist

O'er hill and field.


A splash of light,

A glimpse of ALL

He'll rip asunder

In spring or fall.


A gentle one

In vivid hue,

He is yourself,

He is YOU.


He wants no longer

To be estranged

From sense of wonder,

Cold or heat.


He meets his destiny

From out of time.

And falls in place

At heaven's feet.


______© Nellieanna H. Hay

"Fruit"
"Fruit" | Source

The Web


Silken strands,

Filaments,

Interlaced loosely,

Sunburst-patterned,

Networking space

To partition void from void,

To connect place to place,

To capture nourishment.


______© Nellieanna H. Hay



You may never pass this way again,

Along the beaches of my soul.

But footprints on my soul remain

In traces underlying

The shifting sands of time.


______© Nellieanna H. Hay



Living every moment

Is the true adventure,

Its own souvenir.


______© Nellieanna H. Hay


Feel the now

Upon your cheek,

Upon your brow.

Listen to it effortlessly,

Touch, taste, smell ~

The real of it,

Enter into it ~ be it.

You never need

To steal it.


______© Nellieanna H. Hay

"pêcher en fleurs"
"pêcher en fleurs" | Source



I think radially,

Seldom on a linear plane.

Why select one grain of sand

From all the shores

To understand the sea?


______© Nellieanna H. Hay


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