Sunset: Wheat Fields Near Arles (painting by Vincent van Gogh)
text © Raj Arumugam, June 2008
there in no god but the sun;
we denied Sun God
and created Sin God
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see the one last embrace of the day
of love between setting sun
and the flaming wheat;
when it is in all night and in the dark
and in cover and in secrecy that men and women make love
here sun and wheat make unabashed love
in public view, gasping and yearning for another day;
ah, for a night of rest
and recuperating
to mount
another day of rapid love
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sun does not set
it lives in the wheat and it lives in the corn
and it lives in the boundless energy
of the dog that leaps across the fields;
the sun is captured daily in skin and leaf
and in the bright eyes of children who laugh
day and night
life is the sun:
for the fields are blessed
or blighted
by the touch of its rays
Sunset: Wheat Fields Near Arles (painting by Vincent van Gogh)
text © Raj Arumugam, June 2008
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HI Nth Writer
Light is magical.
Welcome to my site; will viist yours soon.
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I loved your poem. It is not easy to convey what you feel when you see a Vangogh... What I too perceived from the painting was the light... the magical light of the morning in a wheat field. I remember seeing a similar scene on a morning when my train stopped in the middle of a field and the Sun suddenly appeared from behind a hill and draped the whole scene with the magical light...
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Dea Friend Raj Arumugam
Van Gough is my favourite painter. I like his brush strokes. So effortless!!
Naval Langa
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Raj jee...I cannot comment ,because i don't know if van Gogh's painting or the poem is best. In a dilemma. very nice writing.. kunjubi
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Matheikal -
It's true that we (humanity) are capable of cruelty and destruction and violence and ugliness; we are also - as we all know - capable of great beauty and goodness.
I keep my sight - as much as I can - on the immensity and depth of life and our potential - and I see that beauty and goodness. I know you do too - the poems you write bring us that.
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The darkness of the man-created reality is a stark contrast to the natural reality in Van Gogh's painting that you have reproduced. Life lies there in nature, the sun and the field. Darkness is spewed out of the man-made chimneys. Your poem, of course, looks at the brighter side of reality - as usual.
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guddd one,, Raj Sir... n beautfullyyy concludeddd...
rgds
Bhavna
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very nice sir.............sun is really the life.presented good paiinting before us.wheat is basking it self in the golden glow of sun and due to this it's of golden colour.
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beautiful one Raj
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Raj
life is sun
summarises the fact....
Luvly thought
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