With Just A Single Brush Stroke Poem by Mark. A Heathcote

Depending on the artist's medium, his pigments
Ambitious colours take centre stage on the page
Take Gauguin, for instance, who would use bright, flat colours
With simple outlines, vibrant, sunset-richness
Awoke - feelings dreamy, his inner eye could gauge
Red foregrounds that were calmed by green tree clusters.

Those set back in the distance with cobalt blue skies
And golden, ripe fields in the midst of harvesting
Peasants bent double with just a single brush stroke
Yes, colour transforms and can come to symbolise
Creation, its people, and all their wondrous blossoming
Something like an emotion with an upstroke-

Turn-of-hand, Van Gogh could make the world swirl alive
The land was a moving field of shimmering locus
Each dash pulsing like a heartbeat pounding for breath
His canvases radiated with life; he didn't contrive
To impress, his art, no matter where you focus
Has a living energy long after his death.