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
- Sonnet IV: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend by William Shakespeare
- Heart To Heart by Rita Dove
- Like A Vocation by W H Auden
- Conversation Galante by T. S. Eliot
- Ode On The Pleasure Arising From Vicissitude by Thomas Gray
- Ein Yahav by Yehuda Amichai
- An Autumn Reverie by William Topaz McGonagall
- Федор Сологуб – Всё зеленее и светлее
- The Elphin Nourrice poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth
- AN INSPIRATIONAL VILLANELLE: by Manish Thakur
- Better And Best by John Oxenham
- Алексей Хомяков – Русская песня
- Flora by William Morris
- The Nearness That Is All by Samuel Hazo
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).
