Paul Gauguin on Atuona - revised
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Paul Gauguin on Atuona - revised
Paul Gauguin on Atuona
France had forgotten him,
and Mette's letters rarely arrived,
Paul desperate to hear of his children.
Feverous, his leg inflamed
with syphilitic sores,
he lay dying in his House of Pleasure.
His last bottle of morphine empty,
and without money,
did his final thoughts--like Keats
in Rome--turn to home?
Was the final thing
this self proclaimed "savage" saw
a painting he had placed on his easel
days before--a snow scene
of his beloved Breton?
France had forgotten him,
and Mette's letters rarely arrived,
Paul desperate to hear of his children.
Feverous, his leg inflamed
with syphilitic sores,
he lay dying in his House of Pleasure.
His last bottle of morphine empty,
and without money,
did his final thoughts--like Keats
in Rome--turn to home?
Was the final thing
this self proclaimed "savage" saw
a painting he had placed on his easel
days before--a snow scene
of his beloved Breton?
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Re: Paul Gauguin on Atuona - revised
Wonderful
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Thanks, Ken
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I don't remember what the first version was like, but you didn't change much. It was already good and this is great.The telling comes together in a brief poem.
Re: Paul Gauguin on Atuona - revised
I can't remember the original, but this version is wonderful.
Eira
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Re: Paul Gauguin on Atuona - revised
Eira, Billy — thank you so much for your comments
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Re: Paul Gauguin on Atuona - revised
Hi Bob,
Gauguin's death as an illustration of "home is where the heart."
^^ And I add what I have learned along the way Home:
the Heart is not earthbound
In Byron's passage about the sculpture of the dying Gaul, the warrior"s thoughts turn to his home.
And here you mention the same with Keats.
Perhaps this is a Universal at dying time.
Perhaps these references testify to my belief that dying is not death, but a dying from this temporal existence that is not free from pain. "To live you only have to die" Dying is ecstatic.
An exit to an absolute Entrance -
The ultimate Exodus from the finite to the Eternal - that is Home - the haven of the humane.
Symbolically the looking back home is a looking forward to The Heavenly Homecoming -
The Heights
beyond the wuthering
Heaven
the Heart is not earthbound
With the Miracle Lift
Michael (MV)
Gauguin's death as an illustration of "home is where the heart."
^^ And I add what I have learned along the way Home:
the Heart is not earthbound
In Byron's passage about the sculpture of the dying Gaul, the warrior"s thoughts turn to his home.
And here you mention the same with Keats.
Perhaps this is a Universal at dying time.
Perhaps these references testify to my belief that dying is not death, but a dying from this temporal existence that is not free from pain. "To live you only have to die" Dying is ecstatic.
An exit to an absolute Entrance -
The ultimate Exodus from the finite to the Eternal - that is Home - the haven of the humane.
Symbolically the looking back home is a looking forward to The Heavenly Homecoming -
The Heights
beyond the wuthering
Heaven
the Heart is not earthbound
With the Miracle Lift
Michael (MV)
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Re: Paul Gauguin on Atuona - revised
Thanks, Michael, for your thoughts