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
- If A Tree Could Wander by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- A Circular by Thomas Hardy
- Robert Burns: The Banks O’ Doon: First Version
- The Burning Crusade by Memphis Knight
- Николай Заболоцкий – Смерть врача
- Delilah by Rudyard Kipling
- The Floods by Rudyard Kipling
- Death & Co. by Sylvia Plath
- Show me by Rixa White
- Possibilities by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: Gudewife, Count The Lawin:
- Владимир Маяковский – Наши поправки в англо-советский договор (Красный перец)
- The Silent Battle by Sara Teasdale
- Омар Хайям – Из допущенных в рай и повергнутых в ад
- A Man Young And Old: X. His Wildness by William Butler Yeats
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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).
