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
- Natural Theology by Rudyard Kipling
- I Write a Poem by Aiyah De Torres
- Ballade of Dead Actors by William Ernest Henley
- Sonnet II: Not At First Sight by Sir Philip Sidney
- Amabel by Thomas Hardy
- Ode To A Loved One by Sappho
- Алексей Жемчужников – В Европе
- Василий Тредиаковский – К почтению, льзя объявить любовь
- Владимир Вишневский – В Мисхоре
- At This Very Moment by Mary TallMountain
- Огюст Барбье – Зеленая Дева
- Love Sonnet XXV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster
- The Common Life by W H Auden
- Answering Vice-Prefect Zhang by Wang Wei
- Life and Love by Nithin Purple
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