The Poetry Show: Poetry about Paintings: Go Van Gogh!

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Janet introduces some poems about paintings and painters: Vincent Van Gogh, Rembrandt, and Monet. Poets include Robert Hayden and Robert Murre Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case This Episode Recorded July 17, 2024

Monet's Water Lilies

by Robert Hayden

Today as the news from Selma and Saigon
poisons the air like fallout,
I come again to see
the serene, great picture that I love.
Here space and time exist in light
the eye like the eye of faith believes.
The seen, the known
dissolve in iridescence, become
illusive flesh of light
that was not, was, forever is.
O light beheld as through refracting tears.
Here is the aura of that world
each of us has lost.
Here is the shadow of its joy.

 

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