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
- My Soviet Passport by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Holy Thursday (Innocence) by William Blake
- Robert Burns: Phillis The Fair:
- Bubbles from Eternity by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Михаил Лермонтов – Ах! Ныне я не тот совсем
- Freedom by Walter William Safar
- Remember the Tick by RD McManes
- Яков Полонский – Ночь в Крыму
- Know, Celia, Since Thou Art So Proud by Thomas Carew
- Folk Singer’s Blues by Shel Silverstein
- Ring Of Grass by Shel Silverstein
- The Victory by Shahida Latif
- Birthday Ode for 31st December, 1787 by Robert Burns
- Address to the Unco Guid by Robert Burns
- To L. R. E. by Sara Teasdale
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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).
