Synesthesia
by Orla McGreevy
This morning when I woke I smelt yellow.
It was the rough amber that tickled my nostril hair
but it faded to a perfumed jasmine
after several blinks.
I think I heard the tang of mustard with a lemon
singing in the background, and it was hard
to tell exactly which dessert it resembled,
maybe creamed banana crumble.
But the sound of clanging dishes had me taste such orange
that I couldn’t hear the yellow for much longer
and they blended like Play-Doh
to a fleeting gold.
The gold reminded me of a poem
in that flicker, and the writer’s words
danced the five-step waltzing Matilda
to the landing through my door.
I had had enough of painting.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Robert Burns: Willie Chalmers: Mr. Chalmers, a gentleman in Ayrshire, a particular friend of mine, asked me to write a poetic epistle to a young lady, his Dulcinea. I had seen her, but was scarcely acquainted with her, and wrote as follows:-
- Николай Заболоцкий – Сон
- In A Cuban Garden by Sara Teasdale
- Василий Жуковский – Светлане
- Time And The Garden by Yvor Winters
- Sonnet 128: How oft, when thou, my music, music play’st by William Shakespeare
- Could Man Be Drunk Forever poem – A. E. Housman
- The Death of Lincoln by William Cullen Bryant
- Аля Кудряшева – И если Богу нужны гимнасты
- Валерий Брюсов – Глупое сердце, о чем же печалиться
- The Thief
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нынче мне не до улыбок
- Ballade Of Old Plays poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Василий Жуковский – Элизиум
- Snarleyow by Rudyard Kipling
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
