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
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- Михаил Лермонтов – Чаша жизни
- To Virgil, Written at the Request of the Mantuans for the N poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- La Vie Boheme poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
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- Feeling Lazy poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
- The Village Garden poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Behold, As Goblins Dark Of Mien by Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Slumber did my Spirit Seal by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Высоцкий – На Филиппинах бархатный сезон
- Book Tenth {Residence in France continued] by William Wordsworth
- Leto and Niobe by Sappho
- Psalm 87 poem – John Milton poems
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).
