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 Gardener XLIII: No, My Friends by Rabindranath Tagore
- Альфред де Мюссе – Как лепестки весеннего цветка
- She’s My Ever Lovin’ Machine by Shel Silverstein
- London, 1802 by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: A Bottle And Friend:
- Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave? by Thomas Hardy
- Nanny’s New Abode by William Barnes
- Владимир Маяковский – У шахтера нет чая, нет табаку, нет сахару… (РОСТА №604)
- No Regrets by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- The missing pen by Ross D Tyler
- Омар Хайям – И сиянье рая, и ада огни
- Easter Snow by Winifred Mary Letts
- Sir Hugh; Or The Jew’s Daughter poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Moon’s the North Wind’s Cooky by Vachel Lindsay
- Whispers of Immortality by T. S. Eliot
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).
