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
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- The Hesitating Veteran poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Spontaneous Me. by Walt Whitman
- To Arms! (II) poem – Alfred Austin
- Your souls are ours by Philo Ikonya
- On His Seventy-fifth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor
- Elegie IV: On The Death of Prince Henrie by William Alexander
- A Song From ‘The Player Queen’ by William Butler Yeats
- The Cyclists poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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- First let the kennel be the huntsman’s care by William Somervile
- hai_kou_unpublished.html
- Robert Burns: On Chloris: Requesting me to give her a Spring of Blossomed Thorn.
- Robert Burns: Second Epistle To J. Lapraik:
- Нина Воронель – Природа сама сочиняет стихи
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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).
