Self-Portrait - Vincent Can Gogh Poem by Raj Arumugam

A wooden pipe is good
a simple pleasure
something for my mouth (a drawing in
that fills the mouth and indeed the whole head)

and so I need not talk
just nod or mutter hmmm, hmmm
if the idle talkative corners me

and a hat, a rough rustic hat
a generous one, ample
to bestow on one an air of ease

the beard too, ample
and contented with itself

and a look - an easy one, almost naïve -
that too is good

And then we - hat, beard and pipe, and look -
we can start on our journey of the self-portrait