Café Terrace at Night by Vincent Van Gogh
This painting depicts a cafe in Arles,France specifically the Cafe Terrace and today the cafe is called Cafe van Gogh. The style of the painting is unique for Van Gogh with warm colors and depth of perspective.
Where poets meet and the singers set
their opera, that place is my blue terrace
their opera, that place is my blue terrace
intertwining in it, a web of thousands wordings
everyday
under a falling night.
The violin floating, playing by itself
greets the - many faces of love, evolving,
dilating, out of nothingness,
into
a scantling canvas of everlasting pertinence.
The hanging terrace, my partner, along
with all my fellowmen
dipped in the hotness of a brewing drink
lend each other
a charming smile, some fine glow growing
with time, each passing night.
By a table, cornered, soft and downy,
inscribed the dove scribbling
where young faces, mad and supple
write their lover’s tales
and
still again,
after a fifty years, holding hands,
under a falling night.
14 comments:
Love the setting...
I love the way you make words your own invention, turn them sideways, and let us see all their facets. This is really good. The swirl that Van Gogh so often used is here in the same more subdued form as your chosen picture, and nothing could more exemplify how free verse liberates the poet from constraint and allows words free reign to spark association and connection in the reader. Thanks so much for linking in, Monika.
very cool...love all the texture you gave to the setting...some very fine poetics
I find the poem a bit of romantics.
It portrays a promise coupled for eternity.
Lend each other a charming simile is a great line for a nice write.
Vivid and warm ambiance.
Oh you're like a circus performer, you catch the ball and walk the high wire here. It's so deft, supple, effortless and yet so charming, so full of ambiance, locale. Here the text works inside the texture as impasto on a canvas. Beautiful! Gay
warm with colour and with a perspective - clever use of the image
Hedgewitch, words are something treasured in you. Thanks!
Brian Miller, Wolfsrosebud, The texture and setting is really enchanting.
Beachanny, Oh yeah, a circus performer. True, the poem is light, I wanted to weave something supple, exploring the human emotions and romanticism in a thin thread, just meant to be admired and for feeling the warmth. Thanks!
John(@bookdreamer) Thank you so much for dropping by.
I love it, I am amazed at how you are able to twist words around. It is a beautiful talent..
Your blue terrace, where poets meet. So that's where we are. I'ts a lovely place :)
It's one of my favourite paintings, and your words added their own colours to it...
I admire this poet's rhyme. Thank you so much, Susie
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