Cool! Great comparison with the painting and the wetlands you had witnessed in New Jersey.
When Karen organised a week in Amsterdam, in the Museum Quarter, (September 2015) we didn't know there was the Van Gogh/Munch comparative exhibition with a terrific party! We decided to go to the launch party much later, as the other wing was incredibly quiet and I had wheatfields to myself for a long time.
Since then I've published numerous haiku. I also had published two haibun about the Tate Britain "EY EXHIBITION VAN GOGH AND BRITAIN" exhibition (27 MARCH – 11 AUGUST 2019) using a new 'haiku/haibun' writing technique.
But here is my very first Amsterdam Van Gogh Museum haiku which I posted onto my Area 17 blog rather than have it published:
Auvers-sur-Oise
the crows changing
into their colours
Alan Summers
It was written that way because there was no glass protection and I could lean in to about two millimetres away. I had asked permission! :-)
The brushstrokes are as detailed and vivid close up and I could see how the crows 'emerged' from the wheat or the wheat 'created' the crows.
September 30th, 2020 at 2:54 am
Lovely haiku!
Sunflowers are incredible, whether in a pot, or standing six feet tall. I still remember visiting a whole field of sunflowers to this day!
This haiku is about a time when I was being filmed, and we discovered a mysterious bunch of sunflowers.
such old steps
I water the sunflowers
for Van Gogh
Alan Summers
Stardust Issue 9 – September 2017
October 2nd, 2020 at 5:41 pm
Reminded of his Mulberry tree painting when I was walking to work and passed the Absecon wetlands in New Jersey:
wetland shore
the maple ripples
with the sky
October 3rd, 2020 at 3:32 am
Cool! Great comparison with the painting and the wetlands you had witnessed in New Jersey.
When Karen organised a week in Amsterdam, in the Museum Quarter, (September 2015) we didn't know there was the Van Gogh/Munch comparative exhibition with a terrific party! We decided to go to the launch party much later, as the other wing was incredibly quiet and I had wheatfields to myself for a long time.
Since then I've published numerous haiku. I also had published two haibun about the Tate Britain "EY EXHIBITION VAN GOGH AND BRITAIN" exhibition (27 MARCH – 11 AUGUST 2019) using a new 'haiku/haibun' writing technique.
But here is my very first Amsterdam Van Gogh Museum haiku which I posted onto my Area 17 blog rather than have it published:
Auvers-sur-Oise
the crows changing
into their colours
Alan Summers
It was written that way because there was no glass protection and I could lean in to about two millimetres away. I had asked permission! :-)
The brushstrokes are as detailed and vivid close up and I could see how the crows 'emerged' from the wheat or the wheat 'created' the crows.
warm regards,
Alan
p.s.
The link to my Area 17 post is in my name.
January 9th, 2021 at 3:54 am
Wonderful poem – thank you