Pictures From Van Gogh (The Sower) Poem by Raymond Farrell

Thrusting
diagonally
across the picture space
a Prussian blue cypress
leans its ancient twisted trunk
towards the darkly clad
hunched figure
of a peasant shouldering
a sack of seeds
asymmetrically positioned
at the left
against a drab autumn background
of barren fields and trees
in a sickly colored citron sky
an immense yellow sun sets
provocatively placed
like a halo
above the bent head
of the toiling sower
whose weathered brown hands
struggle to sow
the seed of life
on fertile ground.