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The Starry Night
The starry night the skies bestow
upon us earthlings here below
gives rise to ever wondrous gaze
and sights o’erwhelming to amaze
as in the painting by van Gogh,
that grand impressionistic show
in indigo of cosmic flow,
so disregarded in his days,
the Starry Night.
We yearn to fathom vast tableau
and yet ourselves have failed to know.
How fickle are the public’s ways.
When Vincent strove for word of praise
he saw no hint how famed would grow
the Starry Night.
~ Harley White
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The poem is in the form of a rondeau…
Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh
Painting Credit: Vincent van Gogh; Digital Rendering: MoMA, Google Arts & Culture, via Wikipedia
Explanation: The painting Starry Night is one of the most famous icons of the night sky ever created. The scene was painted by Vincent van Gogh in southern France in 1889. The swirling style of Starry Night appears, to many, to make the night sky come alive. Although van Gogh frequently portrayed real settings in his paintings, art historians do not agree on precisely what stars and planets are being depicted in Starry Night. The style of Starry Night is post-impressionism, a popular painting style at the end of the nineteenth century. The original Starry Night painting hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, New York, USA.
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Harley White
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