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
- Battle Salamis
- Isabella; Or, The Pot Of Basil: A Story From Boccaccio poem – John Keats poems
- I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood
- Couplet 3 poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- On The Conduct Of The World Seeking Beauty Against Government poem – Allen Ginsberg
- You Look Up Pictures of Icelandic Ponies by Ruth Madievsky
- Robert Burns: Lines On The Author’s Death: Written With The Supposed View Of Being Handed To Rankine After The Poet’s Interment
- The Treasure by Sara Teasdale
- Long I waited in vain
- The Gardener IV: Ah Me by Rabindranath Tagore
- Magnolia Shoals by Sylvia Plath
- a_choka_is_a_littoral_drift.html
- Acquainted With the Night by Robert Frost
- Василий Жуковский – Светлане
- I Remember, I Remember by Philip Larkin
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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).
