The Girl With an Earring

Poem on the beauty of Vermeer’s Painting

Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring (ca.1665) in the Vermeer Room in the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague, Netherlands. Photo by Michel Porro/Getty Images.

A delicate blue turban frames a face,
and sunlight whispers on her lace.
A moment of stealth captured within.
A pearlescent rip across her flesh.

Eyes like the deepest well pools,
where secrets yearn to be revealed but are not heard.
A half-smile plays across her lips.
A brushstroke’s drips, a whisper’s breath.

Warmth and shadows take flight,
as the canvas sings in subdued gold light.
Pearl and girl, bonded for eternity,
A profound silent symphony.

The touch of Vermeer, a spell of magic,
Beauty sealed in time to linger.

© Shuvranil Sanyal, 2024

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