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
- once i saw a old man’s shop by tulip
- Владимир Маяковский – Два опиума
- Гавриил Державин – Похвала за правосудие
- A Circular by Thomas Hardy
- Михаил Кузмин – Зеленая птичка
- Screens (In a Hospital) by Winifred Mary Letts
- Pathos Is The Skyward Tanka
- I am a sculptor, a molder of form by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Cinderella by Roald Dahl
- Physically Hearted
- I have fallen into unconsciousness by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Омар Хайям – Когда ветер у розы подол разорвет
- To The Right Honourable William, Earl Of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary Of The State For North-America, by Phillis Wheatley
- Аля Кудряшева – Тишина
- This Dog by Rabindranath Tagore
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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).
