Saturday Haiku: Isolation

  

how good to recall
in days of isolation
nights we dined with friends

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Image: "Café Terrace at Night" (1888)

Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Medium: Oil on canvas

Location: Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

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Saturday Haiku: Sea Wind

 

the steady salt wind
harnessed by the old stone mill
while sea birds hover

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Image: "The Mill of the Galette" (1886)
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Medium: Oil on Canvas
(Public Domain)



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Saturday Haiku: Clouds at Midday

a bright summer's day

white clouds hanging in stillness

with midday repose

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Image: "Houses at Auvers" (1890)

Artist: Vincent van Gogh

Medium: Oil on canvas

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Saturday Haiku: Harvest

moon on the mountain
hay gathered for the harvest
a field in repose

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Image: "Evening Landscape with Rising Moon" (1889)
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Medium: Oil on Canvas



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Saturday Haiku: At the Wheat Field's Edge

at the wheat field’s edge

where human industry fades 

poppy’s bloom delights

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Image: Edge of a Wheatfield with Poppies (1887)
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Medium: Oil on canvas
Private collection, found at Wikiart



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Saturday Haiku: The Gleize Bridge over the Vigueirat Canal

bridge of stone

spans soft flowing water

the heart will choose

                        ~ CK

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Picture: "The Gleize Bridge over the Vigueirat Canal" (oil on canvas) 1888

by Vincent van Gogh 

Pola Museum of Art, Japan

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Monday Music: Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)

"Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands. Van Gogh was a post-impressionist painter whose work, notable for its beauty, emotion and color, highly influenced 20th century art. He struggled with mental illness, and remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. Van Gogh died in France on July 29, 1890, at age 37, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound." (From Biography.com at http://www.biography.com/people/vincent-van-gogh-9515695#synopsis)

Singer songwriter Don McLean wrote "Vincent" as a tribute to the Dutch painter. The song is also known as "Starry, Starry Night." Van Gogh produced some 900 paintings in ten years. You will see a few of those paintings on the video below that, according to the note on YouTube, was created by someone named James Carter. Others have done similar tributes on YouTube, but I liked this one a little more that the others.

Saturday Haiku: The Red Vineyards

in afternoon light

the red vineyard dances

friendship and harvest

                    ~ CK

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Picture: The Red Vineyards near Arles (oil on burlap)
by Vincent can Gogh November 1888.
It is said to be the only piece sold by the artist while he was alive (Wikipedia).


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Saturday Haiku: The Sower

 sun at his back
 the sower walks the fields
 planting tomorrows

                           ~ CK

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Picture: The Sower, 1888, oil on canvas, by Vincent van Gogh

(Van Gogh Museum version)

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Saturday Haiku: Twilight

soft summer twilight

the air is heavy with hope

footsteps tread softly

                              ~ CK

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Picture: Landscape at Twilight by Vincent Van Gogh

(oil on canvas) resides in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

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Saturday Haiku: Lesser Lights

    lesser lights

    shining in the night

    guide us home

                 ~ CK

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Picture: Starry Night Over the Rhone
Painting by Vincent van Gogh


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Saturday Haiku: Pine Trees at Sunset

steadfast pines

witnessing sunsets

some will fall

              ~ CK

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Picture: Vincent van Gogh: Pine Trees at Sunset (oil on canvas)

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Saturday Haiku: Blossoms

Blossoms greet the world

     with promise for tomorrow

     and joy for today.

                           ~ CK

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Picture: "Apricot Trees in Blossom" (oil on canvas)
              by Vincent van Gogh


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