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
- An Afternoon by Raymond Carver
- Вера Павлова – Нет, нет, не ревность
- Николай Заболоцкий – Футбол
- The Princess: A Medley: As thro’ the land poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Ольга Берггольц – Церковь “Дивная” в Угличе
- New Year On Dartmoor by Sylvia Plath
- Николай Огарев – Тебе я счастья не давал довольно
- To the Bartholdi Statue poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Stanzas poem – John Keats poems
- Михаил Кузмин – Зеленая птичка
- The Rice Was Under Water
- Robert Burns: Lassie Wi’ The Lint-White Locks:
- Morning-Land by Siegfried Sassoon
- To Ellen Terry poem – Alfred Austin
- Leaving Albania by Morelle Smith
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