Essential information:
- Title of the poem: And now look at me
- Author: Laura Neri
- Year of publication: 2025
- Type: Contemporary lyric poetry / emotional poetry
- Assessment: ★★★★★
Review:
Con “And now look at me”, Laura Neri offers us a fragment of soula text that seems written the very moment you feel, love, shine. It is a poem of sincere tears, not of pain but of emotionof a gaze that seeks truth in silence, and of an emotion that comes to life in the invisible gesture of giving oneself.
The opening verse is a glimpse:
My eyes shine with tears / They are the ones that are good for the heart.
Here the tear is not fragility, but emotional grace, a luminous liberation that makes the beholder more real. Tears do not hide, reveal. They are the language of the soul.
The emotional center of the text is in the silent gesture of the passage:
I see you pass and I feel your breath. / Breathe on my heart
It’s not need, it’s not request: it’s presence. A slight presence, but capable of move the heart, awaken it. And then, the need to hold back, to capture that breathas if it were something sacred and fleeting.
The author goes on to tell the gentle struggle with emotionswho get closer but remain there, entangled “one step away from the heart”. Yet, instead of guarding them, chooses to donate them. This is the high point of the poem:
I give them to you
An act of pure love, unconditioned, uncalculatedsimply offered.
And then the final image:
You shine / The stars surround you.
A cosmic and delicate closure. The beloved is light, he is the gravitational center of a universe of beauty. And in the final silence, everything comes together, everything becomes more beautifulbecause when you truly love, no words are needed.
A reflection.
“And now look at me” it is a poem that it reads like a breath between emotion and stillness. Laura Neri reminds us that true love is a presence that offers itself in silence, that shines even without fanfareThat it touches and remains even when it passes. It is an invitation to really look, without defenses, with an open heart. AND a soft song for those who know that emotion, to be true, does not need to shout.
Text of the poem:
And now look at me
My eyes shine with tears
They are the ones who do
good for the heart.
I see you pass and I feel your breath.
Breathe on my heart
I have to catch the breath.
I have to go play with some
and emotion
But the emotions get caught up and stay there
one step away from the heart.
I give them to you
You shine
Around you
the stars.
Silence… everything is more beautiful
(Laura Neripoems)
Author’s biography:
Laura Neri she is a poet who writes with her heart turned towards the essential. In his verses, love and the soul they touch each other gracefullywithout fanfare, in a balance made of emotion, sincerity and inner light. His poetry is caress and trutha language that becomes silent music, especially in lyrics like “And now look at me”dove intimacy becomes pure poetry.
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