Tag: Poetry About Paintings

Robin Wright: “Early Morning”

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Early Morning

-After Cezanne’s Woman with Coffee Pot

She sits erect on her stool
next to the table. Her cup
filled with dark brew
rests on its saucer
beside the pot.

She drops two sugar cubes
into her coffee, stirs five times,
swirls sweetness into the liquid.

The coffee cools. She’s distracted
by a sense of foreboding,
handsome face in frown,
hands resting in her lap,
ready to be clasped in prayer
if needed.

About the Author: Robin Wright lives in Southern Indiana. Her work has appeared in As it Ought to Be, The Beatnik Cowboy, Loch Raven Review, One Art, Spank the Carp, The New Verse News, Rat’s Ass Review, Fevers of the Mind, and others. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and her first chapbook, Ready or Not, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2020.

Image Credit: Paul Cézanne “Woman With a Coffeepot” (1895) Public domain image courtesy of Wikimedia.

Robin Wright: “Boarding House Bedroom”

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Boarding House Bedroom
- After Vincent van Gogh

I tell the widowed landlady,
I’m an artist, and she rents
me the room cheap.
The colors for this room
must be both bright
and tranquil for me
to feel alive, work
round the clock in a fever.

I choose yellow for the bed
and chairs. Violet for walls,
green for the window frame,
a fence encasing light
that leads to a view
of the public garden
where men and women
stroll the lane surrounded
by blue pines.

I immerse myself for days,
weeks, months, until
a voice, a train inside
my brain, rumbles
through, rattles
the pictures on the wall.

About the Author: Robin Wright lives in Southern Indiana. Her work has appeared in The Beatnik Cowboy, As it Ought to Be, Loch Raven Review, Spank the Carp, The New Verse News, Rat’s Ass Review, Little Old Lady Comedy, Bindweed, Fevers of the Mind, One Art, and others. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and her first chapbook, Ready or Not, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2020.

Image Credit: Vincent Van Gogh “Bedroom in Arles” (1888)