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
- Sonnet III. Written On The Day That Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison poem – John Keats poems
- music.html
- Robert Burns: My Father Was A Farmer:
- A Lover’s Complaint by William Shakespeare
- A New Heaven (To-On Active Service) by Wilfred Owen
- The Fable of Dryope – Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 9, [v. 324-393] poem – Alexander Pope
- five moons for earth by Raj Arumugam
- Lover’s Gifts XXVIII: I Dreamt by Rabindranath Tagore
- To a Pupil. by Walt Whitman
- A Light In The Attic by Shel Silverstein
- Frozen by Priyanka Tungana
- Blank Joy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Cobweb by Raymond Carver
- The Dying Christian to His Soul poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Song—Sweet Afton by Robert Burns
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