fun, jealousy, boredom, sadness and happiness

poem about each of these things in turn, using the five senses

Fun is a burst of purple

It smells like the smelliest flowers

And tastes like melting chocolate

It sounds like the roar of the ocean

And feels like dancing to ''Bohemian Rhapsody'' 

Jealousy is a bolt of green

It smells like severely gone-off meat

And tastes like sour milk

It sounds like deadly anacondas 

Slivering through the grasses of your beloved home,

And feels like being pricked repeatedly in the stomach

By sharp and pointy angry knives

Boredom is white 

It smells like peeling wallpaper

And tastes like moldy old cabbage 

It sounds like someone hiccuping 

For two-and-a-half hours straight

(And being forced to stay in the same room with them 

For all that time) 

And it feels like watching paint dry,

Or the tiny seed in your garden grow into a gigantic tree

Sadness is a bolt of blue

It smells like rotting sewage 

And tastes like being forced-fed your own vomit,

It sounds like the unhappy screams of children,

Not in a movie but in real life

And being unable to do anything to help them,

And it feels like being sucked 

Into an empty vacuum in space

From which there is no return and escape

As there is nobody around to help you;

You are all alone

And will soon be dead

Happiness is a burst of butter-yellow

It smells like pine needles

Or the fresh smell after it's just stopped raining

And it tastes like your favourite meal

After a long day's hike on a mountain-side.

It sounds like birds singing first thing in the morning,

And feels like being enveloped in the arms 

Of your best friend or lover,

Whom you haven't seen since childhood,

And had long since given up for dead