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 CVII: Not Mine Own Fears, Nor the Prophetic Soul by William Shakespeare
- Омар Хайям – Много зла и коварства таится кругом
- Come Skating by Shel Silverstein
- Meditation For Writing – Three Tips to Improve your Writing with Creative Meditation
- On Scaring some Water-Fowl in Lock Turit by Robert Burns
- Низами Гянджеви – О кипарис с плавной поступью мри
- Николай Заболоцкий – Осенний клен
- Run to Death poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Федор Тютчев – Каким венком нам увенчать
- In Neglect by Robert Frost
- Change
- Алишер Навои – Как от вздохов безнадежных дым
- E.P. Ode Pour L’election De Son Sepulchre poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Tu Fu – Tu Fu
- Proactive Responses to Recession – 7 Creative Ways to Make Extra Money With Real Estate
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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).
