Don't know why but I was inspired by Van Gogh for today's prompt of writing something surreal. I've been reading his letters recently and watching the trailer for the movie 'At Eternity's Gate', maybe that's it.
(First draft so it's very rough...)
Yellow
Yellow like the room
of Van Gogh
burning daylight
colours too bright
the yellow room is sun
stared at too long
yellow room in a yellow town
attended by a mind overrun
poverty past talking about
yearning unaccounted for
the yellow room is claustrophobic
eternity's sore point, sulphurous -
the yellow room is frugal, fecund
articulate composition
the yellow room is gone
the sunflowers strong
the yellow room is not a room
in a house, but home
in a heart hollowed out
a hayfield at dawn
love, drawn out long
a soul seeking solace
on and on and on
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