Poems by Marieta Maglas
Night Cafe
Van Gogh wanted to mix a material rainbow of colors
From primary red, yellow, and blue in the sense of divine.
In the Holy Light, the love theme of the flower clock discolors.
The empty glasses on the tables lack the Holy wine.
The ideal round tables assume their infinite regress,
While huddling down in a stupor, the lonely men around.
Their eyes do not see the sense of life and true Noblesse.
From a corner view, silent colors search for the sound.
Tables for awakening, for life, and fate's game.
In life, a complete circled awareness needs time.
In many forms, the epitome of stability is the same.
It keeps a purple silence for the painted mother of thyme.
This irreconcilable demon-woman hung on the left wall
Needs that freedom engraved on the emerald green door.
The watch on her hand shows the time for a masked ball.
The parallel lines are meant to never meet on the floor.
Love is for completing the time, as pink is for the emerald green.
In the mirror, this nuance of green reflects the sadness of life.
In games, against the red, pink, and white, the cue tip can win
Because all the main complementary colors lead to strife.
The white coat of the waiter is a symbol of the glowing lamp.
From this perspective, the hues slip downward toward the floor.
Extending to new dimensions, Eve sits or is just up to vamp.
The flowers wither and life disappears after an endless war.
Irises
There is an explosion of green life in the light.
This life extrapolates all its emerald green.
This life can be close to heaven on the right.
Love is a holy thing played in this world, a scene.
Then, all the colors of the rainbow can be seen
With different eyes detecting different shades.
Blue flowers are placed in a potpourri of green.
In the flowerbed, these irises are like spades.
They need reassurance, as Pantone would recommend
This space of mysteries that no longer exists.
With pale neutral yellow tongs, they're in great demand.
With neutral yellow thoughts, they please the Queen of White.
Alongside darker colors, all these things can sustain
The balance of thoughts and need a background to pray.
The warm cadmium yellow can accidentally drain
The evil spirits; these flowers keep them away.
Van Gogh used such a small amount of indigo.
This color conveys mainly truthfulness and trust,
While the emerald green looks like a piccolo.
Through this emerald, life can become a thrust.
Using the bright red against the rich blue background,
Van Gogh sent messages through his unique color,
The ochre's holy struggles ~ his ear without the sound;
A pure, thinking world was starting to discolor.
*These poems are inspired by paintings by Vincent Van Gogh
About the Poet:
Her works have been published by The Sybaritic Press, Silver Birch Press, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Dashboard Horus, Al-Khemia Poetica: A Women’s Arts and Writing Journal, Dissident Voice, Ellerslie Books, Journal of the Akita International Haiku Network, The Queer Gaze, PentaCat Press, Coin-Operated Press, Mayari Literature, Synchronized Chaos, Prolific Press, Oddville Press, Tuck Magazine, Southern Arizona Press, Republic Magazine, Phoenix Z Publishing, All Your Poems Magazine, and others published the poems of Marieta Maglas in anthologies like Near Kin: A Collection of Words and Art Inspired by Octavia Estelle Butler, Nancy Drew Anthology: Writing and Art Featuring Everybody’s Favorite Female Sleuth, and The Cardinal Anthology Vol. 3.
