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
- Ship Starting, The. by Walt Whitman
- Mad As The Mist And Snow by William Butler Yeats
- The Lamentation of David Over Saul and Jonathan by William Somervile
- Владимир Маяковский – Пример, не достойный подражания
- Song from Aella by Thomas Chatterton
- Владимир Маяковский – Столп
- Иида Дакоцу – Сквозь зимнюю мглу
- The Gardener XI: Come As You Are by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Набоков – Будь со мной прозрачнее и проще
- Villanelle: Oscar Victorius by T. Wignesan
- Stretch Mark Cream – How Creams Help Remove Stretch Marks
- The Maid Vor My Bride by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: Pretty Peg:
- To J. S. poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Sonnet 81: Or I shall live your epitaph to make by William Shakespeare
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).
