Marc Chagall. Sleepwalker (LE SOMNAMBULE). 1911 courtesy of www.marcchagallart.net
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A few cinquain poems in response to Jane Dougherty’s Poetry Challenge, based on this intriguing painting by Marc Chagall, Russian-French painter living from 1887 to 1985:
#1
Sleepwalk,
moon’s hypnosis
lures lovers longing to
conquer life’s eternal maelstrom
with love.
#2
You wave,
cry out my name,
urging me to come yet
I hesitate, my love frozen
by fear.
#3
Under
bright summer moon
love beckons in a dream.
At the edge of passion’s flow, I
waver.
#4
Falling
towards passion
under golden moon glow.
Serpents rise as I accept your
embrace.
#5
Rising
from death’s slumber,
she whispers at midnight
over shimmering cool waters,
long lost.
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Lovely thoughts. 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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A beautiful sequence of interpretations for the painting, as it can have so many meanings.
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Thank you 🙂
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Lovely sequence. The beauty of Chagall’s work is that it can mean so many different things.
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Thank you. At first glance the painting seemed simple but the more I looked the more I saw and wondered about. His style is intriguing. I’d love to see the original painting.
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I think it’s in Russia. I like his paintings a lot too. Mystic without that creepy strangeness of someone like Magritte for example.
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Jane had exactly the right word: “sequence”. It all flows together beautifully. (K)
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Thank you 🙂
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“Conquer life’s eternal maelstrom with love.” “Love frozen by fear.” “At the edge of passion’s flow.” “Falling towards passion.” — I absolutely adore these lines. Your cinquains are so beautiful and the different themes in all five poems shows how varied the interpretations of the painting can be. A child’s dream? A nightmare? Reality? You never know.
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It is a rich painting–there is so much to see and some faint detail that I would love to see closer.
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