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
- The Symptoms of Love by William Cowper
- Towards Break Of Day by William Butler Yeats
- Follies of War by Michael Levy
- SNAKE CHARMING by Satish Verma
- Николай Рубцов – Возвращение из рейса
- REVOLT OF A SUTRA by Satish Verma
- The Dunciad: Book IV poem – Alexander Pope
- Sonnet II: Not At First Sight by Sir Philip Sidney
- Diffugere Nives poem – A. E. Housman
- dickinson_and_the_alabaster_gogyohka.html
- “Give me a roof where Wisdom dwells” poem – Alfred Austin
- Orlando Furioso Canto 7 by Ludovico Ariosto
- In Honour Of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Harvest Bow by Seamus Heaney
- The Death of Cromwell poem – Andrew Marvell poems
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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).
