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
- Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle by William Wordsworth
- Willie’s Ladye poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Жан де Лафонтен – Ссора Собак с Кошками и Кошек с Мышами
- “Behold Vale! I Said, When I Shall Con” by William Wordsworth
- Василий Тредиаковский – Описание грозы, бывшей в Гааге
- The Alchemist in the City poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Николай Карамзин – К портрету Ломоносова
- Rural Reflections
- My Paramour Was Loneliness
- A Prayer in Spring by Robert Frost
- From My Diary, July 1914 by Wilfred Owen
- Олег Григорьев – На заборе валенки
- Divided Destinies by Rudyard Kipling
- I hear the roar of a Harley… by River Urke
- Departure by Sylvia Plath
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