Although scientists now consider the list of senses to be much longer than the proverbial five – things such as balance and thermoception are often counted as ‘senses’ now too – it’s true that we still talk of ‘the five senses’: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. If you want to explore more ‘sensory poems’, we’ve offered poems about seeing here, poems about hearing and sound here, and poems about touch here; below, we offer ten of our favourite poems about the various senses.
