The silence of the colours

Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water. Fernand Leger

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

Reviews

[A Scribbler Named Bek]

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!

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thanks, Beka. You're right and certainly colours in nature are so real, it's difficult to paint the same on canvas, when the artist or the painter can do this magic, it's just wonderful. :) Rudi

[Lyn Anderson]

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

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you KLGoode, glad you liked it. I love to make poems about nature and his inhabitants. :) Rudi

[Coyote Poetry]

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

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

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

[Coyote Poetry]

You are welcome.

[Rene Salinas]

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

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you Rene for your review. I think that the contradiction in the last sentences show that colours indeed speek to us, however with other means than words and sounds. I presume that somebody who looks noth with his eyes, but with his soul, feelings, can discover other meanings of communication. Thanks again. :) Rudi

[Delmar Cooper]

lovely take on perspective thanks

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thanks, Delmar, always glad you review my poems, glad you liked it. :)
Rudi

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you Beka, I love to write about nature. Glad you liked it. :)
Rudi