THE STARRY NIGHT 

(Based on Vincent Van Gogh's painting)

  

The 'Starry Night'

Of colours dark and bright,

Blue dominating,

The hills blending

Into the sky,

A small village at the base lies

In brown, greys and the colour blue,

In black all the buildings outlined too,

Yellow and white moon and stars shout loud

Amidst all standing out.

Colours on the sky, swirling and twirling,

On the branches of the cypress, bending and curving,

The hills blending Into the village down,

The stubborn, rigid town,

Soft small trees incredible,

Making the concrete look more flexible,

All details capture the eyes

To the dreams of the painter as they fly,

Weaving their way in the mob of colours,

Letting all the painter's mind discover.

Showing us the artist's dream world,

In the colours bright as it whirled,

Imaginary,

Natural unnaturally,

Dreamy,

Yet the reality,

Trying to breathe in

The 'Supreme', 

Connecting divinity

To the village, the reality.

Hallucinations 

And depression,

Taking him to another level of creation,

Starlit imaginations,

Dreamy calmness,

Stoic unnaturalness,

Stroke after stroke of ethereal delirium,

Of joyful elysium,

A painting of hopes and serenity,

Sitting close to eternity. 

Disturbed was the mind,

But the brush was kind,

Letting him play with his dreams

On a canvas clean,

Creating soft angles,

The soft colourful swirls,away from the thought tangles,

Cypress, hills, moon, star,

Village,town, sky and the church spire,

All connecting to the divine,

His everlasting, colourful shrine.

©Madhumita

 

Van Gogh  suffered from paranoia and epileptic fits. He fell into depression and had suicidal tendencies too.