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 37: As a decrepit father takes delight by William Shakespeare
- Alfred Lord Tennyson; The Coming Of Arthur poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Robert Burns: On Elphinstone’s Translation Of Martial’s Epigrams:
- Epistle To John Hamilton Reynolds poem – John Keats poems
- Владислав Крапивин – В южных морях и у севера дальнего
- Under Cover of Night by Robert Desnos
- Let Him In by Vishnu J Mohan
- I’ve Been Working So Hard by Shel Silverstein
- A Poetical Epistle To Lady Austen by William Cowper
- The Wanderer
- A Ghost in the Shell by Talha Jafri
- Towards Understanding, Through Poetry
- This we Have Now by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Hobbinol; or The Rural Games by William Somervile
- Михаил Кузмин – Я знаю вас не понаслышке
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).
