In Competition No. 3189 you were invited to submit a poem about a favourite smell.
This challenge certainly seemed to strike a chord — not surprising, perhaps, given the looming threat of Covid-induced anosmia. As Brian Murdoch puts it:
Be ever grateful for your sense of smell!
Treat no aroma with the least disdain,
In case some virus makes you so unwell
That you can never smell a thing again…
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