Monday, June 26, 2023

June 25, 2023, Immersive Van Gogh on the Occasion of Your 72nd Birthday

maybe Van Gogh
only ever wanted to be Vincent

  only ever wanted a fraternity of painters

but he couldn’t quite meet minds with Gauguin

  couldn’t find the quiet of his own mind

even slashing his way to semi-silence 

  still could only paint sweeping strokes

of his beautiful sorrow


i can’t find the beauty in my sorrow 

  and have no desire for the guild of grief 

but somehow i think if i could just stay

  in the silence of this music

bathed in the blues of Vincent’s Irises

  and weep with the winds of his star-filled night

i might emerge bereft of you

                          but whole

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