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
- Fragment on Sensibility by Robert Burns
- Cupid’s Reign Of Terror (March 2012) by Stevens Cadet
- At the Twilight by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Sonnet 119: What potions have I drunk of Siren tears by William Shakespeare
- Юнна Мориц – Ручеек
- Михаил Лермонтов – Я не для ангелов и рая
- Sonnet 01
- Владимир Маяковский – Домой
- Erasing Amyloo by Russell Edson
- Владимир Гиляровский – Белоснежные туманы
- The Campera, the Foreigner y el Novio by Marjorie Kanter
- Come Skating by Shel Silverstein
- Robert Burns: Craigieburn Wood:
- The Candle Of The Lord
- Admonition by Sylvia Plath
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).
