For all the poems in this Two Sylvias Press Advent Calendar challenge, visit my musings here.
Prologue: This is a 31 day event that helps poets and authors all over to pen down 31 new poems in the month of December (2025). Every day we can open the calendar for that day to read about the prompt for that day. Then let your imagination fly to infinity with your thoughts and voice.
Note: I am in 2026, but will continue with the prompts and poems till Dec 31st 2025.
For Day 29 the prompt given to us was to write a poem by picking one of the landscape painting (perhaps by Turner, Van Gogh, O’Keefe, Carr, etc.) and imagine something not belonging to the landscape came into it like a vending machine, satellite dish, etc.). The poem should contain an exploration of the tension between the “natural” and “intrusion”. This is an exphrastic poem – about a piece art).I chose “The Starry Night” by Vincent Van Gogh. Here is my take.
Starry Night Blends In The Sky
I Painted The Starry Night With Moons And Stars
And Swirly Clouds, A Dreamy Interpretation From My Room,
A Nocturnal Study In My Isolation Perhaps My Memoirs
And Wish It Won’t Be For Me A Tomb.
Hey, But Wait…Do I See Mars Beside The Moon?
Or Is That A Field Of Wheat Beside The Tall Church?
Or Is It The End-Of-The-World Cataclysm Starting At Noon?
It Is A Huge Cosmic Fusion With The Village With Silver Birch.
The Day After I Look At It And Find My Inner Conflict
Beside The Floating Island In The Sky
Oh Is It A Beaver Giving Its Verdict?
Or Are They Black Spots Trying To Fly?
Whatever It Is, My Imagination Drifting
The Church Spire Becoming An Antenna
And The Trees With Electric Charge Licking
All Forming A Way To My Adventure
Galavant Reflections 