kellustzall

Member since June 12, 2026

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14 Poems

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Heat Wave Fairy Tale

Posted Aug 16, 2026 · 38 lines · 1 critiques

[Eugenio]
And I thought sneaking glances would suffice
You lied to me, with puppy teeth
They flare and glare like lightning striking
through your chest where tiny Jesus rests on a silver lining
Have you just enriched the soil with sweat storms under solar phases?

Hardly a land owner of private property
Caught me sharing a bombilla while breaking some bread
beef, (beefy briefs) and pasta
This Last Supper panorama...frames new dawns

You've won the heart race, a' thumpin' on mine arrhythmic. It's not in the right place nor are my glasses

You must've been scared to see me lying so close. I take the lion's share by laying low. Sketching up odd jobs for my dogsbody

And I'll repay all the heydays that we once were. Your lips flub half-truths, I believe them
If I could click the clock a lifetime sooner. Cause' little Martín loves his orange View-Master

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[Martín]
And I thought kissing Jesus was enough
Used to splash this pool, now I play it cool
but you cheated by insisting I take hot showers (in the summer)
One foot in the door, another in the Garden
How can you bring comfort both to and under the quincho table?

Barely unhoused but pay no mind, in kind please
Caught me red-bandaged refusing medical services
and sleeping near spiked fences
This small roof, smaller feet and senses...curl my toes

In your dead old clothes there's a warmth of weary books. It beats around the bush, so I unzip

I long to know how one's heart wears on your shirt. It smells like zesty earth, where we "lei" on grass. Put it on for your mirror to paint

And I'm sorry to flip your script into word pieces. I am the maricón that you told me not to be
If I could read between the lines like a press. Cause' Eugenio loves his laptop clickiness

[Both]
A citrusy fusty funk, ripens and rises upon the storage bunk
Your eyelids are a sun-dripped curtain, hoveringly hiding the moonlit cenote behind yet sunken, down on my lungs
Noon has settled on the dust and dusk, is this impending lust...a must?
Remember? We killed a cat before, before Curiosity could discover. The C-word has become us. I hush

Boy, what you running from? Boy...you fill the cropped screen
When we found this island, we watched it, serene in secret
Tropical landscapes that are rendered flat. Splats of the Pacific. Specific sequence and location. And they keep outliving...our beloved families...the air gun...the air in our hushes...

And while we're washed ashore to dos ananás, our pants gliding waves out on balneario natural
Love how your gaze has always been quick to turn from cloudy clouds to skyish blue...all the more now that I can birdwatch all the albatross flocks again with you.

kellustzall’s timeline

August 2026
16 Sun

Posted a poem
Heat Wave Fairy Tale
"[Eugenio]"
Open thread 38 lines
11 Tue

Critiqued
"A Phantom Paw Print" by @RJ Bear
""and waits for breath that does not rise or fall" is a freakin brilliant way to depict a scene where neither the party of subject and object could be seperated from each other because that sensation is apt for both, a q…"
11 Tue

Received a critique
on Red Apron from @RJ Bear
"You never cease to surprise me. Visceral, brutal, and stunningly vivid. The interplay between culinary butcher imagery and suffocating intimacy gives the whole piece a claustrophobic, dark-romantic pulse. Regards Ray"
10 Mon

Posted a poem
Red Apron
"Butterflied! The belly boiled me in bile"
Open thread 25 lines
03 Mon

Critiqued
"Evening Shadows" by @William Lynn
"You...have poems in progress FILE? Holy Poetry I only write like once every other week, and most of them are trivial breakfast afterthoughts damn"
02 Sun

Critiqued
"Evening Shadows" by @William Lynn
"Is this on of your old poems now newly revised? I think I might have read this before... lovely poem btw"
02 Sun

Posted a poem
Nửa Tỉnh Nửa Mê
"Vision darkens before the dawn of derision, no..."
Open thread 30 lines
July 2026
29 Wed

New follower
@A Hot Photon
25 Sat

Critiqued
"flinch" by @crypticbard
"I'm so loving how you chose a trivial, trite "he" as a pronoun for something clearly beyond even a divine entity, almost a derision. Also he is not instead of he does not, reminds me of the debut album of Arctic Monkey…"
25 Sat

Posted a poem
O2id (The Boat)
"Oh row, row, row. Row the rumbling boat"
Open thread 37 lines
24 Fri

Posted a poem
Homeostasis
"Neutral, an unassuming environment"
Open thread 37 lines
22 Wed

Posted a poem
Elderly Elder (Happy 20th Birthday to Sister)
"There's no time to waste, for the next coming-of-age"
Open thread 48 lines
20 Mon

Critiqued
"Seven Minutes" by @streshenkofftheresa
"Good god, i was having an oh no... moment because i misread "The moment they sent you to me" as sent you there"
19 Sun

Critiqued
"Silent Resistance " by @Tigger Kaz
"The way I hate myself for bursting out a wheeze while reading the adapters line... I mean of course, adapters, as in a noun describes people, not the electrical adapters, because the image of adapters hiding depicted in…"
19 Sun

Posted a poem
How to Learn Another Language (Simplified and Romanticized)
"Still, I write cliché poems"
Open thread 38 lines
18 Sat

Critiqued
"Gray" by @TheWanderer78
"On my second note, do be reducive, it could work as great intensifier, but dont typecast, it ruins cinema, dont let it ruin your raw artistic prowess. Your words say: you can be much much better than this. A sea despera…"
18 Sat

Critiqued
"Gray" by @TheWanderer78
"Cool contradiction descriptors. The grey forced to say and lost its way, what cool things to say! Eventhough around the earth stanza and eventually the final, it becomes a bit trite, like grey, we get it, its a color as…"
17 Fri

Received a critique
on The Side Effect of Being Alive from @Lavender
"And it seems to be your natural way to write. I still think this would be a fantastic piece to read aloud - those awesome sounds: scat scat skit - and the vivid images. I can feel the energy, and I think reading at an o…"
17 Fri

Received a critique
on The Side Effect of Being Alive from @Lavender
"This would be a perfect poem for an open mic night. The emotions and language are strong. I have not heard of Coil before, nor their style of music. Searched online - very unique. Would love to know what inspired you to…"
15 Wed

Highest posting month
July 2026 — 7 poems
12 Sun

Posted a poem
The Side Effect of Being Alive
"Love, as a verb, again and again, second after second, relentlessly, wantingly, it disturbs"
Open thread 34 lines
09 Thu

Received a critique
on Life is Futile from @RJ Bear
"Ouch, the ending of this completely broke me. Beyond the wild energy and the sharp edges, there’s such a poignant, exhausting search for peace and self-love here. A really powerful, unapologetic piece of writing."
05 Sun

Posted a poem
Life is Futile
"WOAE! My scream shreds, my buoyant bum's blessed"
Open thread 33 lines
02 Thu

New follower
@flj011278
01 Wed

Posted a poem
My Will
"Dearest Present, this peasant would not live any longer (was trying so hard for a nonchalant facecard when I said this banger) "
Open thread 38 lines
June 2026
30 Tue

Received a critique
on Flood from @W. Barrett Munn
"The first stanza is engaging and interesting. Unique ways of saying things. "orange heaven beyond my vision" "Take me to the center cold" "the sun blue melts through" These are all excellent and create curiosity as to w…"
28 Sun

Posted a poem
All-Seeing Eyes of a God
"I find you broken beyond the forest's end, long legged crawling by the ankles bent"
Open thread 40 lines
25 Thu

First critique offered
on "Liberty or Death" by @Md. Naeem Aziz
23 Tue

New follower
@RJ Bear
23 Tue

Received a critique
on Flood from @winter
"thanks for sharing the heart behind the piece. Its incredibly moving to know these were real fragments of speech and memory you brought together."
22 Mon

Posted a poem
Art Career
"This verb! Love. It disturbs!"
Open thread 40 lines
22 Mon

Received a critique
on Comfy from @winter
"What a sharp and brave play of words."
22 Mon

Received a critique
on Flood from @winter
"What a lovely piece!!🥰 btw The ending feels like that moment you swallow your pain and just tell the world 'alrighty, thanks' because you're too exhausted to explain anymore- am I right?"
21 Sun

Contest commendation
Neopoem of The Week 06/14/26 to 06/21/25

with "Flood".
21 Sun

First contest commendation
Neopoem of The Week 06/14/26 to 06/21/25

with the poem "Flood".
13 Sat

First publication
Flood
12 Fri

Joined Neopoet
Membership begins

First poem published 1 days later.

About Me

About me

Vietnamese. 25. ESL. Im totally foreign to everything artistic and culturally English. Expect nothing but genuine guidance and critique.

Location: VNM

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Winning Submission	Contest	Contest Date
Flood	Neopoem of The Week 06/14/26 to 06/21/25	14 June, 2026 – 21 June, 2026

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Ray Bear

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A Hot Photon

"A Phantom Paw Print" by @RJ Bear

on Red Apron from @RJ Bear

"Evening Shadows" by @William Lynn

"Evening Shadows" by @William Lynn

"flinch" by @crypticbard

"Seven Minutes" by @streshenkofftheresa

"Silent Resistance " by @Tigger Kaz

"Gray" by @TheWanderer78

"Gray" by @TheWanderer78

on The Side Effect of Being Alive from @Lavender

on The Side Effect of Being Alive from @Lavender

July 2026 — 7 poems

on Life is Futile from @RJ Bear

on Flood from @W. Barrett Munn

on "Liberty or Death" by @Md. Naeem Aziz

on Flood from @winter

on Comfy from @winter

on Flood from @winter

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