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Monday, July 04, 2011

van Gogh for Magpie Tales #72

Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales offers this prompt for writers.







flaming purple peaks
settle into lupine lines
his canvas of death




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21 comments:

mareymercy said...

Wow - powerful last line!

hedgewitch said...

Thanks for appending the facts, it helps put the final words in perspective. Your three lines say a great deal about the color of a short, unhappy, intense life. I also got somber feeling from this picture, which I don't normally associate with Van Gogh.

Laurie Kolp said...

Very powerful... fantastic word choice!

Anonymous said...

SPECTACULAR, arrresting and glorious. The last line packs a punch.

Isabel Doyle said...

striking painting - striking haiku!

jabblog said...

'his canvas of death' - chilling!

JBinford-Bell said...

The last line was so powerful and unexpected.

Other Mary said...

Lovely - you make every word count.

Helen said...

I love your haiku .... love it!

Maggie said...

That's a wallop. So sad, but true.

Chronicles of Illusions said...

powerful - succinct - WOW

Sioux Roslawski said...

"...lupine lines." What a phenomenal phrase.

Thanks for also including the facts Van Gogh. I've loved his work for the past 4 decades.

Friko said...

not then, not yet.
I can't see this picture as presaging death. If so, his whole life story is one of doom.
(I saw that you have appended some facts about the man he was)

But I have no quarrel with the form and impact of your haiku. Excellent, as always.

Helena said...

I can always rely on you for a fitting Haiku.....!

Anonymous said...

Amazing haiku that last line blows me away!

Tess Kincaid said...

Beautiful and dark.

Kay L. Davies said...

I agree with Janice, of Jabblog, this is chilling, indeed. Very well done.
— K

Kay, Alberta, Canada
An Unfittie's Guide to Adventurous Travel

ds said...

That's a powerful punch. Well done!

Geraldine said...

Very sad but very beautiful as well.

Hope all is well with you Sue.

I have a contest on right now at my Happy Break blog, hope you'll stop by soon.

Hugs, G

Madeleine Begun Kane said...

Wonderful haiku. Goes with the art beautifully. Mad Kane

the critics said...

POWERFUL