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
- Night At The Marina by Shreekumar Varma
- Along The Sun-Drenched Roadside by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 by William Wordsworth
- Untitled #13 by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Владимир Луговской – Береза Карелии
- Владимир Маяковский – Новогодние поздравления (РОСТА №704)
- Исикава Такубоку – Дом
- Олег Бундур – Папа возмущается
- Наум Коржавин – Гамлет
- Poem by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
- The Beginning of the End by Rixa White
- Ugliest Man In Town by Shel Silverstein
- Girl-Gladness poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Poems by William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience and the Book of Thel
- Fault by Sara Teasdale
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).
