Sunflowers
by Martin Willitts Jr.
Based on the Van Gogh painting “Sunflowers” he made while waiting for Cezanne to join him
I want to decorate my room with color
from sunflowers that all I can imagine
sharing the arbitrary orange and yellow
I selected from the field of my imagination
placed them on a table
so it’s the first and last thing one sees
when entering or leaving in a hurry
to compel a person to slow down
enjoy the released yellow envelops
from a distance I have not opened
I want to express myself, but I dare not
less my enthusiasm overwhelm you
and my words open as sunflowers
no one should see so much yellow, I think
so I hold back, afraid of having so much love
it makes your cheeks turn orange
so stay a while,
paint with me, let our painting sigh,
let the rooms be yellow mornings
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Recall by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Wound-Dresser by Walt Whitman
- As Vanquish’d Erin by Thomas Moore
- Last Turn Of The Morning Carousel/Forever Turn The Midnight Carousel by Matthew Abuelo
- Distributive Trade II – The Wholesaler
- A Dream by Robert Burns
- Анатолий Жигулин – Ночная смена
- Robert Burns: The Charming Month Of May:
- Иннокентий Анненский – Из окна
- In the Carpenter’s Shop by Sara Teasdale
- Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Gravy Train by Michael Levy
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Сашки Червня
- Human Charms
- Николай Огарев – Хандра
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).
