From Purple to Lilac and White



silted up in deeper layers
gradually I lost grip on days
let wind and rain commit for long

but bare roots still kept reaching
a hold in this fidgety life
taking pains to regain solid ground
they branched to a new summer’s light

strong lilacs came into sight
asking nourishment for their growth
out of their own urges to blossom
passed the green leaved boundaries

now tried colors they bring
to my ripening mind

About this poem

This poem arose from a painting of Vincent van Gogh

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Written on May 10, 2012

Submitted by ludy_b on December 07, 2021

Modified on April 25, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXX AXXB BXXX AX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 415
Words 77
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 4, 2

Ludy Bührs

The topics she writes about are very diverse, so are the poetry styles she applies. As a Dutch translator and poet, having lived in Cambodia's capital city Phnom Penh for 2.5 years, in 2008 she published "Op de ruïnes van een rijk" (On the Ruins of an Empire) ISBN 978-90-8834-483-1 with 60 poems based on her experiences there. In 2007 she received a Certificate of Accomplishment as one of The Best Poems and Poets of 2007 issued by poetry.com and the International Library of Poetry for her poem Choked Truth, her own translation of "Verstikte waarheid", one of the poems in the book. Born in 1956, she still works as an independent translator, translating from English into Dutch. more…

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  • luisestable1
    This makes me think of this, "After the storm the sun." It is a good poem with a well-written poetic language and it gives a good reading.
    LikeReply 13 months ago

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