Whether a painter, poet, author, or composer, it takes inspiration. It may come from inside or outside. Sometimes, its as if the page itself drinks in the ink hungrily. I tried to capture that here.

The poem is written in Saphic Verse.
The Sapphic Verse dates back to ancient Greece and is named for the poet Sappho. Sapphics are made up of four-line stanzas with three long lines, frequently of 11 syllables, followed by a short line of typically 5 syhllables. The main building blocks of the sapphic are trochees and dactyls. The trochee is a metrical foot with one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one, while the dactyl contains a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones. The first three lines of the sapphic contain two trochees, a dactyl, and then two more trochees (making 11 syllables). The shorter fourth, and final, line of the stanza is called an "Adonic" and is composed of one dactyl followed by a trochee (making 5 syllables). However, there is some flexibility with the form as when two stressed syllables replace both the second and last foot of each line. Any number of stanzas can be written. The lines are unrhymed. Minimal punctuation intended by the author.

The picture is a photograph I took of a puzzle I did that showed Van Gogh's, Starry Night, speaking of inspiration.

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