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
- Let Him Free by Mary Etta Metcalf
- The Two April Mornings by William Wordsworth
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Соме le onde
- France by Siegfried Sassoon
- Meäry’s Smile by William Barnes
- The River by Sara Teasdale
- Олег Бундур – Если умываться лень
- A New Year’s Gift by William Strode
- Robert Burns: On An Innkeeper Nicknamed “The Marquis”:
- Владимир Маяковский – Пилсудский
- English Poetry. Richard Hovey. John Keats. Ричард Хави.
- Emotions in exile by Shailendra Chauhan
- Paradise Lost: Book 06 poem – John Milton poems
- English Poetry. Robert William Service. My Room. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
- Dialogue Song—Philly and Willy by Robert Burns
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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).
