pop-up snowstorm
the swirl of Van Gogh’s
starry nights

4 Responses

  1. Mike Schoenburg Says:

    cold spell
    iguanas ?
    falling from trees

  2. Garry Eaton Says:

    acid trip
    a decidedly unusual
    starry night

  3. Alan Summers Says:

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    pop-up snowstorm
    the swirl of Van Gogh’s
    starry nights

    —MARIANNE PAUL

    I've certainly written a lot of haiku and haibun around Vincent van Gogh, but never combined snow and that wonderful painting I had the privilege to see up close in Amsterdam and London.

    I love the idea, and have experienced, pop-up snowstorms! And I've experienced the swirls of Van Gogh's brushstrokes when I couldn't believe it, but I was able to be a couple of millimetres away from his wheatfields painting, and it had no glass front. The brushstrokes continue to be mesmerising the closer you get to them.

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    blue note—
    the snow falls
    out of itself

    Alan Summers
    Nick Virgilio Writers House Poetry: Volume 1: haiku, senryu, and tanka
    ed. Henry Brann (upright remington press July 2019)

  4. Mojde Says:

    Nice…

    Faithful is a phenomenon
    To its resurrection …
    Where are we remembered?!

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