The Creative Spirit- 1990(To Van Gogh, Hendrix, Dylan Thomas) Poem by DM W

You are Nature's blazing flower
Charged by summer's sovereign power.
The dark serpents of desire coil
Around your writhing, restless soul
Never satisfied with partial dreams.
You're forever searching for the whole.

Both beast & angel dwell within
The chambers of your love struck heart
The destroyer & creator
Always driving your frantic art.
Like a comet with a brilliant tail,
You pass through galaxies unrestrained.

Through the swirling, roaring colours
Of starry midnight; through sweeping clouds
And sudden flashes of electric sunlight,
The bold gestures of genius,
Shine forth from your work.

O you can turn kingdoms of ice
Into softest flakes of snow.
Like a phoenix from the ashes
Only wilder, stronger do you grow.
Like a dark creature of creation
You walk the finest of lines
Between stillness & disturbance;
Between beauty & decay.