My Sunflower

I went to our farm one late summer day and found nearly all the sunflowers in bloom. The sight of them was so enchanting that it evoked some emotions I dare not speak. There is that serene sense or feeling that is created in one when you are in the middle of nothing but magnificent beauty: magical yellow and green, bees buzzing, birds chirping, butterflies flitting among the blossoms, all those fancy spider webs, lady bugs, a silent breeze… and all is completed when you get a call from that girl you really like… I loved it. I wrote the first two verses (I typed it on my phone while I waited for my folks to complete their tour of the farm) after that phone call. Yea, call me crazy.

Sunflowers and You

I am standing in the sunflower field

And hear a call like a golden finch’.

A slither of love-like [to which I yield]

Calls me to a surrendering flinch.

Butterflies flit among the blossoms

With flashing sparkles of lustrous colors.

Emotions have turned quickly within my bosom

Without a hint, a hush or a sputter

But in great outburst to overflowing.

The somnolent summer’ now asleep

Through these God-forsaken sullen skies.

Sunflowers flaunt an enchanting yellow

Before me like a field of daisies.

I feel the wind; a sweep

Across my face like floating kisses

And hear the call, − the mellow

In the voice in my ears that caresses

Me, and at once I know it is you.

There is a glint in your eyes

Like the glow of celestial crystals

[You are standing there] in my view

Like the pristine look of autumn leaves

In the gentle breeze of this season new.

Trees are tinged green and yellow

Like the bloom of sunflowers.

Autumn winds silences the summer grieves,

And calm returns to these sunflower fields.

I feel the gentle caress in the wind

Like a thousand movements of your slender fingers.

I see faces in these sunflowers;

Their enchanting smiles and love-responses

Like the beauty I see in you ---

And darling, to ends where this love has fledged.

I surmise that I will live and love the days

And live and love with you.