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
- Lament For Culloden by Robert Burns
- The Lamentation of David Over Saul and Jonathan by William Somervile
- Medical Ethics
- Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press by William Shakespeare
- The Crazed Moon by William Butler Yeats
- The Dead by Sylvia Plath
- The Wanderer by Sara Teasdale
- In Memory of a Child by Vachel Lindsay
- My Garden by Thomas Edward Brown
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Гроза
- Let’s pray the divine by Nikunj Sharma
- Ageing Schoolmaster by Vernon Scannell
- Юрий Галансков – Утро
- Олег Бундур – После дождя
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
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).
