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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- Владимир Маяковский – Театры
- Two Kopjes by Rudyard Kipling
- Main to piya say naina lada aayi ray poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- At Night by Sara Teasdale
- Иван Мятлев – Звезда
- The Poet And The Muse poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Британишский – Округлы и оголены
- The Scissors-Grinder by Vachel Lindsay
- Казимир Лисовский – Река Енисей
- Tu Fu – Tu Fu
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 121. Sad Hesper o’er the buried sun poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Жан де Лафонтен – Пьяница и Жена его
- There is a Way by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
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