Painting - Starry Night over the Rhone

By Vincent van Gogh

Genesis

 The wakeful night scribbled the stars

On pages, dark and adorned with scars

Sliced moon lulled behind the silky shroud

Loneliness walked through raucous crowd

Thick mist engulfed the forlorn shore

Ocean released a tale from its core

Silence echoed in an unknown place

Winds whispered in a quivering bass

 Words shredded from a wrinkled quill

Ink ignited itself to embrace the chill

A poet dwelled in the moment bygone

From ashes of memories, poetry was born