Just like the cat

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. Paramahansa Yogananda

With a view on eternity

floating on the white of a cloud

so is her face

 

it’s those eyes

two eastern tinted shelves

with a haze of hairs

a blush on the cheeks

that mingles with the sky

and the wind

 

they keep following me

hypnotic and compelling

as if they are saying

 

you’re mine

 

just like the cat

besides her

on the painting

 

© Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

29/11/2014 

Reviews

[Confuser]

Wow! Absolutely beautiful, I love it! Beautiful imagery and was compelled to read on. From the beginning, I was in awe of the description; something every woman wishes her husband/lover to see. How spot on the flow, vivid in detail. Thank you. Wonderful job.

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you so much, Dale, glad you liked it. The picture is my wife's favoroute too. :)
Rudi

[Confuser]

Am so glad your wife does; will get my husband to read later; he's trying to snooze or one eye open watching old western; either way he deserves it. Tks. D.

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Like westerns too, The good, the bad and the ugley with from Sergio Leone and music from Ennio Morricone, real good old western, they don't make them this way anymore, hell they don't make them anymore :)

Rudi

[Confuser]

My husband has it. You're right. Tks.

[willweb]

I like the depth of this and I always enjoy a poem inpired by a painting. I love seeing how each brush stroke translates into words.

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you Will, a painting by itself can be a poem to, you just have to find the words to translate in on paper. Glad you liked it. :) Rudi

[Lorena]

this is wonderful and has such a powerful meaning! keepem coming!

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you Lorena, glad you liked it. :) Rudi

[The Twin Arenas]

I really like that painting. What's the story, Rudi?

I enjoy "two eastern tinted shelves" as well.

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Well, the woman on the painting is the wife of the painter. She likes cats and...voilà...there was a painting. :)

[The Twin Arenas]

Heh. Cool.

[Tasfia Islam]

Wow.... its wonderful... :)

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you, Annabelle, so glad you liked it. :) Rudi

[Eleanor]

To be honest your imagination is what I love! You pick up different concepts and always write something beautiful on it. I am in love with your poetry.
Very intriguing. Thank you :)

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thanks, that is a great compliment, Isha, I'm glad you love my poetry. Have a good day. :) Rudi

[Delmar Cooper]

Lovey poem . Does it rely too much on the visual you have supplied?

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Yes, it's the description of the thoughts and feelings that I had, still have, when looking at that painting. I think it also trying to get into the painters head. I know for example that that is the woman on the painting is his wife and that he had difficult times in which she has helped him. :)
Rudi

[Stonz P.]

Bravo, I love the imagery so much Sir..
I could picture the haze of hair in a breeze and that twist in the end is just too good..
So glad to have come across your writing...

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you very much, glad you liked it. :) Rudi

[Coyote Poetry]

Beautiful artwork and description.
"it’s those eyes
two eastern tinted shelves
with a haze of hairs
a blush on the cheeks
that mingles with the sky"
The above description I liked a lot. Thank you for sharing the excellent poetry.
Coyote

and the wind

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you, John. Glad you liked it and took time to review my poem. :)

Rudi

[Coyote Poetry]

I wanted more story. You gave enough to tempt my interest.

[Laura Lynn]

her eyes are mesmerizing like a cat, why are they like two eastern tinted shelves? she is everywhere like the sky and the wind....ok, so the shelves are in the East and they have a wood finish on them, most of our wood is tinted or we tint it, ok that's what I'm getting from this, of course it's very romantic like all your stuff, very handsome of course too! You should be loved more! though you are I believe or hope for your sake,

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you Laura for your favourable comment. I think her eyes look a bit Japanese and in a form of a shelve, that's why I wrote eastern tinted shelves, it's just my view on this mysterious lady. Thank you for the wish, I'm cared for, so no worries. :)

Rudi