"On Van Gogh's Starry Night"

Vincent dumbly received the courage
to finish realizing his conclusive exteriors.

Minute attention paid to mysterious character,
he confronted unsettled images.

Alone he painted his art on actuality.

Accustomed to suffering vivid hallucinations,
he adorned his self-indulgent dramatic revelations.

He embellished the stars,
the churning luminaries,
glimmering from first to last.

It remains an overwhelming sketch
where mystified moon and sun are one.

©Copyright © C. Wilkie-Tomes 2001