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Sonnet on Hope (The Star XVII)

If you attend to flannel and soft soap,
To opera, to trouble and to strife,
You seriously haven't got a hope,
So banish psychic vampires from your life.
They bled you till you're bankrupted, blacked-out,
Beleaguered and of energy bereft;
Be blithely bona fide, give bullshit rout,
Refuse to give up what you still have left.

Have faith in waterlilies by the yard,
Put trust in Chopin, Beethoven and Strauss;
If Vincent had more hope, not tried too hard,
He would've had less wicker in his house. 
'Neath starry, starry skies the poet sings,
For hope in flower beds eternal springs.


© Sara Nicola Ruth

The Star XVII

Picture: Self Portrait with Straw Hat and Artist’s Smock by Vincent Van Gogh (1887)

Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853 – 1890) drew as a child but did not paint until his late twenties; he completed many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2,100 artworks, including 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and prints.

“I strongly urge you to study portrait painting, do as many portraits as you can and don’t flag. We must win the public over later on by means of the portrait; in my opinion it is the thing of the future.” — Vincent van Gogh 

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