Swirling flurries of blue and green
Take over the night sky
Occasionally pierced here and there
By bright shining orbs
Stars and moon alike.
A dark protruding figure
Draws your attention,
A cypress tree which seems to reach for the heavens.
Shining bright in the corner
The crescent moon seems to never sleep
Illuminating everything in its path
A small village
Roofs shining in the wake of the moon.
At the center of this village
Is a church spire
Also seeming to reach for the heavens
But it never seems to be able to reach as far as the cypress tree.
I chose to write a poem over Vincent Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night.” I chose this artwork as the subject of my poem because it is one of my favorite paintings. I was inspired by William Carlos Williams’ poem, “Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus.” In this poem he utilizes short stanzas as well as short lines and minimal punctuation. I also decided to utilize these elements because I enjoyed how it made his poem sound and how it came across. I would say in my poem I mainly described certain elements in the painting and how they made me feel or how they came across to me when I viewed this painting. While writing this poem I looked up the various elements in the painting and what they could possibly symbolize and added these elements into my poem. I mainly focused on the piece of artwork itself rather than the artist in my poem. I really enjoyed writing this poem and had fun doing so. 