The Girl With The Golden Earring Poem by Sylvia Frances Chan

The Girl With The Golden Earring

Rating: 5.0


See, you're my love, but you're a little thing
The girl with tiny Golden Earring cling
A sweetheart dot and many things more sweet
As those Johannes Vermeer painted once

contemporary of Rembrandt's cronies
you had no friends, can you look for Trollies
a loyal Dutchman from the Golden Age
Laughter all those times, Roaring and Crying

In any case, John was an introvert
was in his field a very smart expert
created these very tiny paintings
at his home with family always neat

the film 'bout him sounds a very false tone
as usual with artists the king dethroned
John's life was normal and ordinary
they say greatest things 'bout him but the truth

his friends life: tedious, full of drunkenness
no money, always drinking and much noise
much drunkenness, beggars and always broke
it depends how they used their time and spoke

Source:
The Poem in the Dutch Language by ©Sylvie TAN

by © Sylvia Frances Chan -
Tuesday 15 November 2011 - 20.56 hrs.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Sylvia Frances Chan 04 February 2023

Gratefully yours, poetess so dearly supported

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Seema Chowdhury 18 May 2017

An expressive and a descriptive write.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 23 November 2018

Thank you Seema. So nice to know that you are on this poem site too. G.B.U. Amen-

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