Google offers an arts and culture online site that presents famous works of art in great detail for us to study.  I thought it would be an interesting challenge to write poems to accompany famous pieces of art.  A bit presumptuous I know, but oh well, it’s my blog site… so here’s my first attempt for the iconic Vincent Van Gogh painting The Starry Night, painted in 1889.

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-starry-night-vincent-van-gogh/bgEuwDxel93-Pg

Starry Night

A mind so demonstrably bright
Gazing with more than eyes into the night
Picturing what your soul must be
Broiling waves of light across a sea
Of stars that ripple down a hill
Like an avalanche of emotion and will
Allowing journey beyond horizon
To the stars and planets of Orion
The passions, the disturbances of rippled time
Supported by the calm of this village of thine
That warms us no matter the night cold
With the heat of passions and story told
Of the village home, that is sleepy and dark
While the soul does emphatically hark
To the desires of travel so far beyond
Where new experiences may be found
And along the way the colors, the proportion
The vividness of this creative mind’s notion
Projecting on who we will all become
Before it’s hidden again by the light of the sun