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
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
- The True Use of the Looking-Glass by William Somervile
- Ocean of Forms by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Unfortunate Lover poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Lukannon by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: A Man’s A Man For A’ That:
- To a son abroad by Sunil Sharma
- Альфред Теннисон – Рыцарь Галаад
- Алексей Толстой – Василий Шибанов
- Io v’amo sol perche (I Love You Simply Because) by Torquato Tasso
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Sunt Leones by Stevie Smith
- Владимир Маяковский – Для Донбасса формируется поезд с подарками (РОСТА №938)
- Robert Burns: Epistle To Davie, A Brother Poet:
- Cologne by Paul Celan
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).
