Challenge
Imagine Vincent Van Gogh as a poet as much as he was a painter. Take one of his paintings and bring them to life with words.
Gogh Take Me With You
It exists in the bowels
of his imagination
twisted tree sucked
as through a straw
into luminous sky,
spitting out light
in sparks -
a damsel reaching
for redemption –
stars boil in cauldrons
in heaven’s vault, pleading
Take me, take me, take me
into the majesty of promises!
Celestial bodies
move in ravaged dance
reaching God
with outstretched hands
opening their mouths
to swallow the heavens
cobalt beasts whirling
in the burnished light
Take me, take me, take me
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