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
- Face Lift by Sylvia Plath
- Further Instructions poem – Ezra Pound poems
- I am only the house of your beloved by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Олег Сердобольский – Зимний кот
- Ольга Берггольц – Триптих 1949 года
- Business Girls poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Костров – Вот избушка
- Talk by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Hand Dark
- Broken Love by Talha Jafri
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Только на фронте
- Death’s Echo by W H Auden
- A Net to Snare the Moonlight by Vachel Lindsay
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
- The Odyssey poem – Andrew Lang poems
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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).
