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
- Sonnet: After Dark Vapors Have Oppress’d Our Plains poem – John Keats poems
- Brother by Shashini Fernanadez
- Where Shall We Go? by Vernon Scannell
- Robert Burns: Epistle To Mrs. Scott: Gudewife of Wauchope-House, Roxburghshire.
- Robert Burns: Ah, Woe Is Me, My Mother Dear: Paraphrase of Jeremiah, 15th Chap., 10th verse
- For Sidney Bechet by Philip Larkin
- Владимир Британишский – Как из конного двора
- The Sacred Tree
- It’s Beautiful to See Through the Eyes of the Sky by Walter William Safar
- What We Need Is Here by Wendell Berry
- Новелла Матвеева – Восток, прошедший чрез воображенье
- Chinese Zodiac Signs
- Samson Agonistes poem – John Milton poems
- For Sale by Shel Silverstein
- Rite of Spring by Seamus Heaney
Some external links:
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).
