The silence of the colours

The silence of the colours

A Poem by Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere
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Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water. Fernand Leger

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With the passion of a butterfly

I’m landing on all these words;

flowers that give mercy to my soul

 

in a flight full of rainbows

I draw a dip with crevices

about a millimetre deep

 

I’m hungering in the yellow of the corn

float away a bit

at the height of the green from trees

where I fancy me a leaf

 

it’s the silence of the colours

that I alone can hear.

 

© Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

26/11/2014

© 2014 Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere


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This is gorgeous :) I was really drawn in by the picture and once I started reading I was just amazed. To me, the poem has a kind of mystical quality, something bigger than life which can't be fully explained (which is what colors are when you think of it). I especially love your first stanza. Wonderful poem!

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Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

9 Years Ago

Thanks, Beka. You're right and certainly colours in nature are so real, it's difficult to paint the .. read more



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I am really glad I saw this in the feed. Wonderful work, describing colours eloquently in words.

Posted 9 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

9 Years Ago

Thank you KLGoode, glad you liked it. I love to make poems about nature and his inhabitants. :) Rud.. read more
Beautiful and gentle words.
"it’s the silence of the colours
that I alone can hear."
I like the above lines. A calm and good place is create in vision. Thank you for sharing the excellent poetry.
Coyote

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Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

9 Years Ago

Thank you John, alway glad when you like my poem. Have a good day, my friend. :) Rudi
Coyote Poetry

9 Years Ago

You are welcome.
I like the personification of passion - rather tan instinct as the utterfly cannot decide whether it does what it does or not. That right there is like the springboard for the writing. A world where decisions or balancing the scales a dimension of colours of the possibility of silence of touching one's Self. Like a funnel unityng then the physical with the not so physical. All the way this journey to follow until the silence of colour. That a little bit of a touchy issue but obviously not white or black.

Thankyou

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Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

9 Years Ago

Thank you Rene for your review. I think that the contradiction in the last sentences show that colou.. read more
lovely take on perspective thanks

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1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

9 Years Ago

Thanks, Delmar, always glad you review my poems, glad you liked it. :)
Rudi
Thank you Beka, I love to write about nature. Glad you liked it. :)
Rudi

Posted 9 Years Ago


This is gorgeous :) I was really drawn in by the picture and once I started reading I was just amazed. To me, the poem has a kind of mystical quality, something bigger than life which can't be fully explained (which is what colors are when you think of it). I especially love your first stanza. Wonderful poem!

Posted 9 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

9 Years Ago

Thanks, Beka. You're right and certainly colours in nature are so real, it's difficult to paint the .. read more

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Tags: passion, butterfly, colour, rainbow, corn, yellow, leaf, tree

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Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere
Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

Wingene, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium



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I'm from Belgium. English is not my native language, but I like to read English poems and books. I have written a lot of Dutch poems during the last forty years. With some of them I've got prizes in B.. more..

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