One starry night in Arles (for Vincent, Theo and Boris G.) By Isis Andersen for Wednesday Writing Essentials

A beautiful poem.

Thanks for commenting again. I just reposted this for the group so Kathryn could put it up!

Most kind!

Isis A.

Ah, this is the one that is Featured in Gather Essentials: Writing....

I'll watch that youtube later today..

It is beautiful Kathryn... really touching. Tell me what you think of the music. Of course you will recognize it.

Love and Beauty to you,
Isis

i like.

Beautiful...

This is beautiful. I just read Sukey T.'s a few minutes ago, and now I will look for more. The thoughts this painting inspires in you so talented poetesses are totally enthralling me this morning. Fantastic.

Enchanting and engaging, beautiful work.

A work of art complete with brushstoke by a master painter of words.

This has a great rhythm ... the feeling of the poem lingers long after the words are done.

Beautiful!

I am really touched by all said here. The real source of this though is the great work by great artists such as Vincent and Boris. They really show us the light and fire of the Divine that is the source of our existence. That kind of genius moves my heart and the words are the result of that.

Vincent Van Gogh is so much more than the popular idea of a mad man. Tormented but not mad. Beautiful. Tragic.

Kathryn thought of this prompt two weeks ago and it lingered in my mind. I think this is my favorite painting in the universe. I loved Monet above all for years but that is no longer the case. And just yesterday a Monet sold for 80 million dollars.

Vincent sold one painting in his life time and it was sold for 64 dollars.

Incredible.

Love and beauty,
Isis

Such majesty you command with your words, Isis; this throws sparks of magic, which are all the more magnified through your excellent use of contrasting sub-atomic worlds of divine beauty with unfathomably immense, swirling galaxies, filled with equally divine beauty. And at the center of all this is pure beauty in the heart, hand and eye of the artist. This is a wonderful and loving poem.

Isis, I finally listened and watched the YouTube. It is so very beautiful = believe it or not, I have never seen VanGogh at the same time as listening to Don McLean's song...

I sent the link to my family...and it is still playing...so very beautiful. Thank you...

I just found another slideshow of Vincent set to Don McLean, with different paintings and Spanish subtitles. I just told my husband I sent the link to him, because we all revere Vincent...

I have my manuscript to work on now but will keep Don McLean on...inspiration always spurs our humanity to greater heights than otherwise........

Kathryn that is wonderful. So glad you have listened to that beautiful song that truly puts
one in touch with the beautiful Vincent.

Such love and beauty, such an angel.

Thanks for inspiring so much with your images, writing and ideas.

Love and beauty to you,
Isis

still listening as I am writing my creative manuscript....we all need so much to spur us, such an act of give and take, of mystery.

You have shared with us an exquisite word portrait of the artist who's inner self he reflected so wondrously in his work.

Thank you Isis for sharing that amazing link with us. What an exquisite compilation of Van Gogh's work and how beautiful the song that speaks to him so gently and with such understanding.

The revised version is even better! And that's saying something. Well done!

Great rewrite, Isis, my dear. You saw what you had to do, and you did it. And in so doing you made this poem glow for many, including myself.

And I also bask in that glow....you took each essence from
Van Gogh's inspiration and carried all to Ra and the stars...the effect
is scintillating.....as are Van Gogh's paintings. The infinite atom
whirls so beautifully in your hands .....lights up minds & spirits,
hearts and qualia delighted with the songs you offer them to
write and sing with such precise passions that all can join in
and tune their own harmony. Thank you Isis!

the luminous eye - Yes!

I remember taking a photo of my son sitting at this very cafe. Cheers for Van Gogh and for you who has captured the essence so well.

Ah Isis
I see with sublime pleasure that you love the artist that can show the world to me as I would love to experience it in my mind.
You also chose the most lifting soaring painting that I think that he ever made. I can never look at this painting without undergoing deep emotion. It always makes me know again that greatness is achievable because there is infinite greatness tangibly before me.

Of the two versions of your poems, I far prefer the first because it uses words that echo my own thoughts...but there is one point. I feel a jar when I read about his "subatomic dreams." For me the atom would be at the wrong end of the scale. Far too minute. In my mind I more see an exploding fireball...but I do know what you meant.

For your possible interest, I include this link that you could click to see my own tribute to this great man together with a locally made painting...which is also a tribute to him.

What made me post that link here is because you wrote "and the stars and galaxies whirled" and this painting suggests that very graphically.

An Afternoon With Vincent

Dearest Isis;

I do love this rhapsody, so pure of heart ................many thanks

Wow. I loved that video, it really gave a new perspective to his paintings, and the Don McLean song. Thanks for pointing it out.

Your writing is wonderful.

That was superb Isis and the song from Don McLean is still with me in an old collection of audio cassettes - and in the age of CD/DVD a good reminder of what I NEED to listen to again . . . thank you, for the link to this page.

Here's a click and a 10 toward your next cash-out.