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
- State of Siege by Mahmoud Darwish
- Warm are the Still and Lucky Miles by W H Auden
- Николай Заболоцкий – Счастливый день
- Ballade Of Roulette poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Venetian Glass poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- He Thinks Of Those Who Have Spoken Evil Of His Beloved by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: A Red, Red Rose: [Hear Red, Red Rose]
- 決定
- Leaves Compared With Flowers by Robert Frost
- Владимир Маяковский – Реклама Резинотрест
- Verses Faiz Ulla
- Adaptation by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
- xai_kou_from_book_seeds_of_faith.html
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот какое обещание молодой солдат дает… (Главполитпросвет №376)
- A Work Of Artifice by Marge Piercy
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).
