Starry Nights

music by Kayleen Asbo
poetry by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
art by Vincent van Gogh
Starry Nights
inspired by “Starry Night over the Rhone” and “The Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh and the piano composition “Starry Nights” by Kayleen Asbo
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
―George Washington Carver

You teach us how to meet the night,
the quiet shadowed pools of night,
the night outside the glow of home,
the night beyond the sleep-warm bed.
You teach us how to fall in love with night,
the violet night, deep fields of night,
the swirling, churning curves of night,
the whirling, sweeping waves of night-
and oh the stars in their spiraling
you share their gold and pink and green,
a twinkling, a burst of shine,
a firmament in which to dream-
but there’s no way to see stars
if you don’t first befriend the dark.
You teach us how to love the dark,
the verdant, fertile wholesome dark.
Oh, to love what frightens us-
to meet dark with curiousness,
Though it’s mighty, tumultuous,
you teach us the dark is generous.
Vincent, you didn’t paint your asylum’s window bars.
You showed us only night. And stars.
-Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

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your have a nice voice... i would kill for that... keep it up queen..!!!!

[@rosemerryt]

thanks for the encouragement!

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thank you!