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 Высоцкий – Это вовсе не френч-канкан
- Николай Карамзин – Сильфида
- Robert Burns: Apology For Declining An Invitation To Dine:
- Sonnet To Homer poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Заказал я два коктейля
- The Great Carbuncle by Sylvia Plath
- The Promise of the Morning Star poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Nympholept
- Arabian Night’s Entertainments by William Ernest Henley
- Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald of Auchencruive by Robert Burns
- The Watchman
- Patience poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Федор Сологуб – В лес пришла пастушка
- Earth-Moon by Ted Hughes
- never.html
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