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
- market_square.html
- Sonnet 61: Is it thy will thy image should keep open by William Shakespeare
- Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf by Roald Dahl
- The Jailer by Sylvia Plath
- Book1 Prologue by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- София Парнок – Екатерине Гельцер
- Robert Burns: Lines On The Author’s Death: Written With The Supposed View Of Being Handed To Rankine After The Poet’s Interment
- Nanny’s New Abode by William Barnes
- Composed While The Author Was Engaged In Writing A Tract Occasioned By The Convention Of Cintra by William Wordsworth
- Because We Never Practiced With The Escape Chamber poem – Alice Fulton
- Владимир Маяковский – Поляки-крестьяне, чтоб вольными быть…
- Вероника Тушнова – Ты любил, и я тебя любила
- Book Review: A Dictionary Of Indian English Litterateurs: 1794-2010
- Children’s Games by William Carlos Williams
- Spinster by Sylvia Plath
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).
