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
- Sonnet 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits by William Shakespeare
- A Rare Guest poem – Alfred Austin
- The Snake
- The Pentagram poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Epigram—Kirk and State Excisemen by Robert Burns
- Going for Water by Robert Frost
- Омар Хайям – Без меня собираясь в застолье хмельном
- “Life of my life, you seem to me” by Torquato Tasso
- Bermudas poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Parrot by William Cowper
- The Fable of Dryope – Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 9, [v. 324-393] poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Robert Burns: The Laddie’s Dear Sel’:
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- the_children_look_at_the_parents.html
- That Shadow, my Likeness. by Walt Whitman
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