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
- Владимир Костров – Новогодняя ночь
- STRANGE HAPPENINGS by Satish Verma
- Омар Хайям – Если счастлив от счастья
- Song of Myself by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Robert Burns: The Lad They Ca’Jumpin John:
- Mystic by Sylvia Plath
- The house where I was born (08) by Yves Bonnefoy
- Robert Burns: Epistle To John Maxwell, ESQ., Of Terraughty : On His Birthday.
- Kalli
- Song: Eternity of Love Protested by Thomas Carew
- Civilian and Soldier by Wole Soyinka
- Old Memory by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: On Chloris Being Ill:
- Sonnet 102: My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming by William Shakespeare
- Wish by W. S. Merwin
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).
