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
- Phantom by Samuel Coleridge
- Immaculacy by Satish Verma
- Put Something In by Shel Silverstein
- Arithmetic on the Frontier by Rudyard Kipling
- haiku
- The Doctor Will Return by Weldon Kees
- Oh Unforgotten And Only Lover
- The Kiss by Rabindranath Tagore
- Prelude by Shaunna Harper
- Women’s Song Of The Corn poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn (Song) by Robert Burns
- On The Death Of J. C. An Infant by Phillis Wheatley
- The Curse Of Cromwell by William Butler Yeats
- Water by Robert Lowell
- Brother by Shashini Fernanadez
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).
