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
- Ольга Берггольц – Письмо из Ленинграда
- Drying Their Wings by Vachel Lindsay
- Омар Хайям – Где вы, друзья! Где вольный ваш припев?
- The Shadow poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Lessons. by Walt Whitman
- Invocation by Marilyn Hacker
- Night Shift by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Корнилов – Дождь обычный
- Khan Zadas Song On The Hillside
- Наум Коржавин – Друзьям
- Forty Years Later by Martin Willitts, Jr
- Dedication
- Traveling Dream by Marge Piercy
- The Burial by Rudyard Kipling
- Crowding by Satish Verma
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).
