When I Pen Lines, Fresh Thoughts of Vincent Van Gogh

When I pen lines, fresh thoughts of Vincent van Gogh

     strike me! How, with palette and brushes, he breathed

life's scenes onto blank canvases long ago:

     coasts, countrysides, sunflowers, and ears of sheathed,

ripe, yellow corn, to then capture picturesque

     events, and folks, in arresting, deep shades. Rime,

more grounded than Van Gogh's lofty, grotesque

     portraits of man's rustic dominance and prime,

yearns for the greatness of a beautiful mind,

     and the sublime immortality of art;

with Van Gogh's troubled life, what hope I find

     now liberates my Pierian soul's heart.

Ironic? How a painter's life and death,

can still inspire another's creative breath.

By Ngoc Nguyen

From: United States