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
- The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden
- Иван Крылов – Лев состаревшийся (Басня)
- A Goddess by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Жан де Лафонтен – Мужчина средних лет и его две Возлюбленные
- Олег Бундур – Друзья
- To the Victor by William Ellery Leonard
- He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by William Butler Yeats
- Idylls of the King: The Marriage of Geraint poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Владимир Костров – Не банкира, не детей Арбата
- On Returning To England poem – Alfred Austin
- nonsense verse by Raj Arumugam
- The End of the Argument by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Immigranten by Ndue Ukaj
- Missing Person by Vinita Agrawal
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).
