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
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищ! Шахтер раздет… (РОСТА №603)
- Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only. by Walt Whitman
- The Azure Sea of an alien tongue
- Sweeney Erect by T. S. Eliot
- The Queen’s Marie poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Николай Языков – А. Н. Вульфу (Мой брат по вольности и хмелю)
- Epitaph on Captain Lascelles by Robert Burns
- The Distress’d Travellers; or, Labour in Vain by William Cowper
- The Folly Of Being Comforted by William Butler Yeats
- Ballade Of Midsummer Days And Nights by William Ernest Henley
- The Everlasting Voices by William Butler Yeats
- No Rival Like The Past
- Олег Бундур – Ранним утром
- A Question Answered poem – Alfred Austin
- Riding Together by William Morris
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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).
