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 Gardener XXII: When She Passed by Me by Rabindranath Tagore
- Lord, what a Beloved is mine! by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Nap Taker by Shel Silverstein
- I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded poem – A. E. Housman
- AN ODE FOR BEN JONSON by Robert Herrick
- Lines to John M’Murdo of Drumlanrig by Robert Burns
- Николай Карамзин – Дурной вкус
- Нина Воронель – Природа сама сочиняет стихи
- Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old by William Shakespeare
- Степан Щипачев – Лил дождь осенний
- Николай Языков – Песня (От сердца дружные с вином)
- Константин Батюшков – На книгу под названием «Смесь»
- The Ghost’s Leavetaking by Sylvia Plath
- Arabia by Walter de la Mare
- Spelt From Sibyl’s Leaves poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
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).
