Beneath the gaze of
a thousand million souls,
guided by their light,
we choose our path
Past concerns behind us,
we make our way,
our thoughts only for
what lies ahead
Jane Dougherty’s recent post, The sun, the moon and the stars, four poems inspired by van Gogh’s Starry Night Over the Rhone, focused on the darker aspects of the painting, with one exception, and that final line, “by a soothing cosmic wind” sent my mind in this direction, also inspired by the painting.
Image source: Starry Night Over the Rhone/Vincent van Gogh (Wikipedia)
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Lovely. That’s all we can do, isn’t it?
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I still feel that the present moment offers so much that we sometimes miss, but eyes forward is much better than dwelling on a past that will never change.
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I love the image you create in the first stanza — if I were to hold it, it would snap me into the present..the best place to be as you say.
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