My Favorite Poet Poem by Don Nguyen

My Favorite Poet



My favorite poet
My favorite poet is not Claude Monet but Van Gogh;
Even though Monet is my second best, Van Gogh is at top because he had lived with intensity,
With all he had and all he didn’t have.
I love his passion, his emotion, his pain, his joy, his agony, his ecstasy, his eloquence, composing
The greatest poems which painted with vivid-est colors of human life with all struggles, endurance, fragilities, and pains.
After all, a poem is at best described as a painting done on words and thoughts.
We need all colors, all blends, all details, all sketches, to magnify a human life,
Which is so precious to the Lord, as Van Gogh’s to me.
Oh sweet Van Gogh, suffering Van Gogh, I always love to meet you, to walk with you, to ease your pains;
I often wonder of you walking the street at night, hungry, empty, lonely, neglected.
The music is so turbulent I am listening to at this moment,
Best used to describe how you lived
A life of an artist who had lived for his art, who then died for his art,
A life was worth to live
For your life could be condensed into one single masterpiece,
That no one did once understand or appreciate,
The more-than-worthwhile life which now is admired by many forever and forever,
I included.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Poem lines were written such a way to at best described the whirling clouds in his Starry Night painting.
My Van Gogh, described here, is a homeless man, one of my friends who study Scripture with me every Saturday morning for 2 hours.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Heather Wilkins 22 June 2013

this is just a temporary home.someday e will go home to stay. good read

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Don Nguyen 18 June 2013

Are we all homeless here on this earth for our true home is in heaven with God. My homeless friend came faithfully to bible study that I lead at our church. He is homeless but he is a member of our community, and he is close to my heart.

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