LEANNE NEILL - POEMS

Leanne Neill is a creative director of fashion, mother of three, and a self-professed ‘composer of words.’  She has over twenty years of experience in public libraries and local government.  In 2016, she started her poetry and art inspired Facebook page :  LUST for WORDS, and has since been published in many ezines and pages including Spillwords , Bymepoetry, including their WOMb anthology, The Scarlet Leaf Review, Blue Nib, Raven Cage, Husk Magazine, and US anthologies, Dandelion in a Vase of Roses and Warriors With Wings. Her poem “Transition” was highly commended at the 11TH annual Coal Creek Literary Festival in 2018.  Her first collection, Fine Lines and Unpolished Pieces of Me was published by The Australia Times in 2017.  Her second poetry collection, Blue Lotus was released in June, 2018. Leanne lives in Melbourne, Australia.
 
Find her at :
Facebook.com/LUST-for-WORDS
Instagram : lust_for_words_by_leanne_neill
Twitter : Leanne Neill@LeanneNeill2

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​The One

​One stays with you
as life spirals by,
visits in technicolor;
rapid eye movements.
Beats your heart,
right out of your chest.
Comes to the fore
of every thought,
tucked in back.
Turns you on,
when all has expired.
Elevates above any,
floating in your peripheral.
Smack  bang  center
The love of your life.

​Growing Pain

Always
a strangeness;
soul that defied
its time,
grappling
to conform,
frivolity
of youth.
A deeper sense
than just being,
melancholy love
for all that hurt;
as though pain
was worth living,
all grown up.
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