About Me — Rui Alves

How an autobiography became a poem about our metaphysical surrogates

One Thousand and One Nights with Scheherazade

One Thousand and One Nights of Love

Surreal Summer Sunset

Summer is gone. Hello, autumn!

The Gift of Love

The love is the beginning is the love

The Forlorn Lovers

A platonic elegy

Autumn Crimson Reverie

Dreams of silk and satin memories

Synesthesia

A poem by the blind painter

Nameless

Written on the sand under the waves

Beyond a Shadow

Of a doubt

Beyond a shadow
my soul shines on
the curtains drawn
across a sunbeam 
from a dying sun…

The Theater

In Rimbaud’s style

The world is a theater
and I’m but a puppet
on someone else’s stage