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
- Little Fugue by Sylvia Plath
- The Mystic Isle by Rainbow Reed
- A Different September by Steve Sant
- Orlando Furioso Canto 6 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Владимир Маяковский – Долг Украине
- Fill For Me A Brimming Bowl poem – John Keats poems
- Bag-Snatching In Dublin by Stevie Smith
- A Prayer by Sara Teasdale
- Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning
- Ярослав Смеляков – Русский язык
- Иван Киуру – Медовый аптекарь
- Looking Across The Fields And Watching The Birds Fly by Wallace Stevens
- Home Burial by Robert Frost
- On The Loss Of The “Royal George” by William Cowper
- “Take not the Gods to task, for they are wise” poem – Alfred Austin
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).
