So I walk upon the walls

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. Joseph Campbell

It’s not that I count the tiles

from wall to wall

just twenty and a half

from hour to hour, again and again

in the grey of marble

with brown and black

and dots of white,

 

plain and square

and still locked from each other

no one is similar, no one is the same

I’m walking up and down

between the beginning that is the end

 

or later on the other way round.

 

© Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

06/12/2014

Reviews

[Rene Salinas]

As if mixing a concept while imbued in a structure within a given context you always make me read and come to the end nodding as if I understood you. Is laughable really just to think that I would be so arrogant but is not that the arrogance makes me a seer or anything it is just that your words have an embracing fluidity. So when you from the onset express yourself I hear Rudi telling me" Is not as if I'm overly intellectual devoted to the fragmentation of life" "But I'm aware of my indivduality" ad as such I navigate through ith a certain control albeit tricky admitedly but nonetheless inviting.

If I only knew dutch Rudi I would venture to read in your native... I apologize I excel at double dutch only...

Thankyou

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you, Rene, that's a big complement. But I'm sure my words have the same effect in English as they have in Dutch. Dutch is a language that's sounds harder than English. In my opinion English sings. Much of my poems get a new perspective in English and I'm very grateful for that. I've also written poems in French and some of them sound also very romantic in the language of Molière. Every language has his qualities. As writers we have to take advantage of thes qualities. Thank you again for your word, they are always appreciated. Have a good day, Rene. :) Rudi

[Confuser]

Another fascinating poem. You are quite the unique creature. You are very clever and I love your writing. It's like a maze, a puzzle and I love going through it. I see so much inside there. Thank you again Rudi.

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you again, Dale, glad you enjoyed it. Have a very fine day. :) Rudi

[Confuser]

You're welcome. Hope you and family do as well. Thank you. Guten Tag!

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you, thank you. But Guten Tag is German. In Belgian (it's a bit similar) is it Goeden Dag. :) Rudi

[Confuser]

OOps, forgot: Goeden Dag. Will remember, danka/

[Sanjh]

It's wonderful Rudi. the words are flowing smoothely. This phase comes in everyone's life when everything around us feels to be so monotonous however everything is unique in itself. Sometimes we are able to find that uniqueness and other times just get trapped in it.
Great work Rudi...:)

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you Sanjh, it's so right what you say, I sometimes like the closed space of my house, it makes me feel safe, other times I feel locked up and have to run away from it. :) Rudi

[Sanjh]

Exactly, I've felt the same a lot of times. sometimes our life, our world just gets locked up inside those four walls.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

sometimes life feels like this...a wall of tiles of which we memorize each segment...because we never get out of the rut and explore...
walls sometimes make us feel safe.

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Yes, that's indeed true. We measure the space that we are in, to feel safe, just knowing that behind our back there are exactly 10 tiles and no more. Thank you Jacob for the review. :) Rudi

[Laura Lynn]

It's funny when we get trapped in a place where everything looks the same, or mundane pattern. Why do we do that to ourselves? Why do we get caught in such lack of adventure? How do we know when we have teams of people to go explore the world with? Why don't we know what to do sometimes? That is not what you are writing about directly here. But that is the tangent, or the tangential that I recollect here and a problem I am wrestling with in my mind lately

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Yes, you're right, Laura, I hope you find your way with this problem. Hope you liked my poem. Thanks; :) Rudi

[Delmar Cooper]

In pure concrete the words decribe motion in a closed space. In the poetry of your words that space is opened to infinity.

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you, Delmar, space and infinity is the beginning of the relativity theory...and that's a whole other poem. Thank you for the review. :) Rudi

[Lenah Mehzabin]

nice ..simple and meaningful .. true dat we all are different in our own way..

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you ReDheart, for your kind remarks. I must agree with you words, what makes us different makes us special. :) Rudi