Submissions by neves
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
When the curls start to speak
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
18th Jan 2025 9:14am
18th Jan 2025 9:14am
Now, about those highways
I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened. —David Lynch, Lost Highway
We all have them don't we?
Most of us see them
as routes to destinations,
lines guiding us to private
paradises and cramming in
what we can on a long drive.
This is where i'm home
headlights and yellow lines,
polaroids hanging off old
monuments, memories
tacked on the trunks of
tall trees, oral stories
half finished dripping
off somebody's lips.
...
We all have them don't we?
Most of us see them
as routes to destinations,
lines guiding us to private
paradises and cramming in
what we can on a long drive.
This is where i'm home
headlights and yellow lines,
polaroids hanging off old
monuments, memories
tacked on the trunks of
tall trees, oral stories
half finished dripping
off somebody's lips.
...
#LifeCycle
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1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
29th Dec 2024 4:34am
29th Dec 2024 4:34am
It's the 28th of December 2024
I came here eleven years ago
and met somebody extraordinary,
tonight I return to this bridge leaving
this note saying family can be
chosen in this life too.
We are smiling because you will
meet somebody extraordinary too,
you can't see us but we
are sitting beside you.
and met somebody extraordinary,
tonight I return to this bridge leaving
this note saying family can be
chosen in this life too.
We are smiling because you will
meet somebody extraordinary too,
you can't see us but we
are sitting beside you.
#family
#friendship
#LifeCycle
84 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
23rd Dec 2024 4:41am
23rd Dec 2024 4:41am
Something I will never be able to say in this lifetime
To tell you truth it all terrifies me
more than it has ever done before
so I draw circles around your sentences,
pin question marks like stars in a night sky
staying on the watch, in landscape mode
remaining inside a wide angle
not so close, not so far.
more than it has ever done before
so I draw circles around your sentences,
pin question marks like stars in a night sky
staying on the watch, in landscape mode
remaining inside a wide angle
not so close, not so far.
#honesty
#love
148 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
15th Dec 2024 11:59am
15th Dec 2024 11:59am
Before the words
there is a voice
before the voice
there is a rumble.
before the voice
there is a rumble.
#minimalist
129 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
3rd Dec 2024 11:38am
3rd Dec 2024 11:38am
Columns never looked so pretty
except you came
from italy 5000
years later.
from italy 5000
years later.
#minimalist
132 reads
1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
2nd Dec 2024 5:13pm
2nd Dec 2024 5:13pm
Voicemail
I wanted to
reach out then
I realised stars
aren't made
for everyone
and some
are born to
watch them
from the
ground.
reach out then
I realised stars
aren't made
for everyone
and some
are born to
watch them
from the
ground.
#minimalist
186 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
11th Oct 2024 11:11am
11th Oct 2024 11:11am
It gets so bad it makes sense
when you
slowly draw
the curtains
and petrol
begins to spill
from your
legs,
waiting for
my mouth
to ignite
that all
consuming
howl.
slowly draw
the curtains
and petrol
begins to spill
from your
legs,
waiting for
my mouth
to ignite
that all
consuming
howl.
#confessional
#erotic
#LGBT #relationships
#LGBT #relationships
174 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
5th Oct 2024 2:54am
5th Oct 2024 2:54am
Banquet
There's animals
in strange suits
consuming flesh
like red wine
spilling over
white satin,
I slow my gait
crossing over
noting the pure
gluttony hidden
in every pupil
as they speak
in small jargon
while mouths
slowly begin
to fill up.
in strange suits
consuming flesh
like red wine
spilling over
white satin,
I slow my gait
crossing over
noting the pure
gluttony hidden
in every pupil
as they speak
in small jargon
while mouths
slowly begin
to fill up.
#symbolism
170 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
5th Oct 2024 2:18am
5th Oct 2024 2:18am
Foreigners
Do you think
I don't notice
the crispness
of your shirt
and the way
you carry heavy
shipwrecks in
your mouth.
Do you know
behind all that
dandy highwayman
and miami vice lost
under neon lights
there's a heart
crushed in Rosetti,
just a little afraid
of duelling over
heavy shade.
Do you realise
I see pupils
dialate bigger
than wildcats
sitting on a
round table,
waiting for ...
I don't notice
the crispness
of your shirt
and the way
you carry heavy
shipwrecks in
your mouth.
Do you know
behind all that
dandy highwayman
and miami vice lost
under neon lights
there's a heart
crushed in Rosetti,
just a little afraid
of duelling over
heavy shade.
Do you realise
I see pupils
dialate bigger
than wildcats
sitting on a
round table,
waiting for ...
#love
#relationships
185 reads
1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
21st Sep 2024 00:28am
21st Sep 2024 00:28am
(VG)
I gaze in their eyes
knowing how violent
being inside a body
you shouldn't have
to experience is.
knowing how violent
being inside a body
you shouldn't have
to experience is.
#animals
#minimalist
#nature
196 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
15th Sep 2024 9:35pm
15th Sep 2024 9:35pm
Souvenir
And when that song comes on
no matter what's happening
or what's going on,
I'll always crave a
slow dance with you.
no matter what's happening
or what's going on,
I'll always crave a
slow dance with you.
#love
#minimalist
#music #vulnerability
#music #vulnerability
272 reads
3 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
10th Sep 2024 9:06pm
10th Sep 2024 9:06pm
Tables can hold conversations too
I closed the screen
laid my head against
a cool wooden table
letting tears soak
through the hinge
because arms are
not always choices,
then I remember
every moment
I felt this way
remembering this
table once had a
home grounded
by forest roots,
how I carry you
through every
thread in my
blue veins.
laid my head against
a cool wooden table
letting tears soak
through the hinge
because arms are
not always choices,
then I remember
every moment
I felt this way
remembering this
table once had a
home grounded
by forest roots,
how I carry you
through every
thread in my
blue veins.
#grief
#sadness
245 reads
4 Comments
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