Last Lights

Leaf 354 – Art Inspired

 

Anna Ancher - Evening Sun in the Artist's Studio (c.1913)

Inspired by a painting by Danish painter, Anna Ancher, titled ‘Evening Sun in the Artist’s Studio’ (c.1913), this poem was written last year when Autumn was settling in and the sun was rapidly withdrawing its warmth for the duration of the coming winter. It seemed to work well with another haiku which I’d written a few days earlier, marrying the poet’s realm with that of the painter – both sharing an affinity for colder, northern climes and the melancholy taints and tints of that seasonal shift, colouring the painter’s palette and shading the poet’s pencil.

 

 

Last lights –

losing

           warmth.

 

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Tabletop –

feeling the early

autumn chill.

 

 

 

The first haiku was written and originally posted on Bluesky.