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
- Георгий Иванов – Балтийское море дымилось
- Epistle to William Simson by Robert Burns
- Morning Poem #39 by Wanda Phipps
- For My People by Margaret Walker
- The tragic tale of Bobby Magee by Ross D Tyler
- Tom O’Roughley by William Butler Yeats
- Низами Гянджеви – Я долго шел по лугу лет
- The Hanging Tree
- Subject to Change by Marilyn L. Taylor
- Mother’s Love by Nin Andrews
- Let me be to Thee as the circling bird poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Алишер Навои – Когда, тоскуя по тебе
- A Gravestone by William Allingham
- Robert Burns: Clarinda, Mistress Of My Soul:
- Николай Заболоцкий – Пир в доме Бомбеева
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).
