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
- On a Forenoon of Spring by William Allingham
- Sonnet CLIII by William Shakespeare
- Memoriam A. H. H.: 72. Risest thou thus, dim dawn, again poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Be With Those Who Help Your Being by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Egg-Shell by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet 3: Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest by William Shakespeare
- Reason The Use Of It In Divine Matters
- Олег Чупров – Богатство
- August 1968 by W H Auden
- Address to His Elbow-Chair, New Cloath’d, An by William Somervile
- Andromeda poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Fight to a Finish by Siegfried Sassoon
- Miss Drake Proceeds To Supper by Sylvia Plath
- Song. Hush, Hush! Tread Softly! poem – John Keats poems
- Let’s pray the divine by Nikunj Sharma
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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).
