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.

[therisa]

I love your usage of a quote, to describe this poem, Rudi. It creates the mood, which your poetic skill build upon, further enhanced, by the painting. Can feel myself, being drawn in, by both eyes, like they have captured my soul, at first glance. Thank you, for sharing both, the poem and the inspiring painting with us. Having three cats, myself, I would love, to have a print of your painting.

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you for those kind words Therisa. Can you make a copy of the JPG ? :)

Rudi

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you also, Therisa, for reading the quotes. I'm always searching one that goes with the poem. I think some far more important people than myself have said things about the subject in my poem that can make it more clearly what I have to say. :)
Rudi

[therisa]

Your welcome, Rudi. I was asking, whether or not, did the artist make any prints of your painting, as I have three beautiful cats, with whom I share my life. They hold a very special place, in my heart.

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

I don't think so, I even don't know if he still is alive, I've lost track of him. Sorry. Have a good day, Therisa. :)

Rudi

[therisa]

Thanks, for the information, Rudi. And you, too.

[Rene Salinas]

Ha! clever, funny and intriguing right there! The laying of the first phrase is like a rolling carpet of inspiration, quite the phrase as well, again Rudy your scenes at the risk of symbolisms at the risk of methodical impressionism as it is the Gaze which is the spine of the theme for me not a painted scne but a gaze into a presence, unknown but persistent enough to follow us. Shadowy like substance.

Very intriguing.

Thankyou

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you Rene, for those kind words and review. I have this with a some paintings, it's an odd thing. :)

Rudi

[Rene Salinas]

Odd by might for you but for us the readers is a good thing to attest to...

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Okay, thank you, Rene. :)
Rudi

[jacob erin-cilberto]

there is so much in the eyes...they speak volumes don't they?

i like the juxtaposition of the human eyes and the cat eyes...the painting of love which is always such a curiosity...

jacob

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you Jacob, and you're right about the eyes and the juxtaposition. The effect of the eyes is emphasized by it. :) Rudi