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
- Ode to Wine
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Три вида
- The Chambermaid’s First Song by William Butler Yeats
- The Loving Ballad Of Lord Bateman poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Михаил Лермонтов – Баллада (из Байрона)
- Is Life Worth Living? poem – Alfred Austin
- Queen Mab in the Village by Vachel Lindsay
- Федор Сологуб – Забыв о счастьи, о весельи
- Any Lifetime by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Doomes-Day: The Eleventh Houre by William Alexander
- If You Only Knew by Robert Desnos
- What General has a Good Army. by Walt Whitman
- Ок Мельникова – Если есть от кого ждать писем
- Омар Хайям – Мы источник веселья, и скорби рудник
- The Dunciad: Book III. poem – Alexander Pope
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).
