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
- Languaculture by Mike Yuan
- Такахама Кёси – Кажется мне
- How Many Bards Gild The Lapses Of Time! poem – John Keats poems
- Wind by Ted Hughes
- Омар Хайям – Мир любви обрести без терзаний нельзя
- The Cosmic Eggs
- Gwin King of Norway by William Blake
- Robert Burns: To Ruin:
- Эмиль Верхарн – Восстание
- Федор Сологуб – Так же внятен мне, как прежде
- If I Got You by Miraj Patel
- Николай Заболоцкий – Цирк
- Epigram on the Laird of Laggan by Robert Burns
- The springtime of Lovers has come by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Shepherd O’ The Farm by William Barnes
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).
