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
- Robert Burns: Lines Inscribed In A Lady’s Pocket Almanac:
- A Song by Robert Creeley
- Валерий Брюсов – Дрожащие листья на бледные щеки
- A Charm by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: Lines Written Under The Picture Of The Celebrated Miss Burns:
- The Fountain by William Wordsworth
- Зинаида Александрова – Топотушки
- Inscribed on a Work of Hannah More’s by Robert Burns
- Михаил Лермонтов – Баллада (из Байрона)
- Picture of Daniel in the Lion’s Den at Hamilton Palace by William Wordsworth
- In a Castle poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- What would I do without this world by Samuel Beckett
- Dark spring by Yvor Winters
- The Gardener XLV: To the Guests by Rabindranath Tagore
- Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord poem – Ezra Pound poems
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