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
- Returned To Say by William Stafford
- let’s go mummy by Raj Arumugam
- Linoz Isidoz poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Moonlight by Vita Sackville-West
- dance of life by Raj Arumugam
- Sidelined by Satish Verma
- An Antheme by William Strode
- Song—A Fiddler in the North by Robert Burns
- Cruisers by Rudyard Kipling
- Impromptu: To Frances Garnet Wolseley poem – Alfred Austin
- The Applicant by Sylvia Plath
- Edgar Allan Poe by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Question mark remarks by Mark Miller
- Cold by Witt Wittmann
- A New Year’s Gift by William Strode
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).
