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
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- Иван Мятлев – Лютня
- Ок Мельникова – Hey jude
- On Chloris being ill (Song) by Robert Burns
- Иван Варавва – Мать Кубань
- Sonnet IV: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend by William Shakespeare
- The Hero by Rabindranath Tagore
- Ольга Берггольц – Борису Корнилову
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