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jana-b
Australia Processing life. Aiming to work through the feelings and focus on the good and the joy in life. / I’ve no training in poetry but enjoy trying. Thanks for reading and sharing x
Saying the right thing, the fun thing the light thing the true thing. Was that the wrong thing? The push you away thing? The only thing can be the real thing.
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May 17
May 17, 2026 at 4:45 PM UTC
Nervous Energy
Pictures and hobbies, clicking and swiping. Big smiles, locations, sharing and liking. Feels like a whirlwind, I need to slow it… and what’s this emotion underneath all of it? Oh! There is anger, inside of my heart. Projecting onto these men, perhaps not the best start. Unhelpful anger that I know I can clear. Acknowledge and move on, and just leave it… here.
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May 16
May 16, 2026 at 8:40 AM UTC
Anger and swiping
Here I am. Unfiltered, open, up front, not here to please. Welcoming coffee, connection, whatever things bring. Swipe left, swipe right, but I realise my heart hasn’t caught up. No pressure, beautiful heart. You first.
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Apr 29
Apr 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM UTC
Heart first
Dreams filled with you— our interactions, my avoidance, our almost-kisses. I dreamed you there; you tried connecting but I hid my heart whilst (apprehensively) gravitating your way. Sleepless, restless, subconscious dreams. Filled with you, again. Inexorable pull, inevitable? Even in my sleep.
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Mar 23
Mar 23, 2026 at 7:38 AM UTC
Sleepless
We sparked in secret in a shameful state. We kissed in secret and, stressed, I lost weight. I couldn’t trust us, you brought me to life. I re-tried with him again traumatised wife. That marriage was awful and needed to fall I grieved YOU so badly but worked through it all. Years later we’re single it’s not technically wrong but those sparks they burnt me was it us, all along?
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Mar 3
Mar 3, 2026 at 6:56 AM UTC
All along
Should I date again? Start again? Try again? Fly again? Right now is calm again, sweet again, peaceful again, frustrated again..
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Mar 1
Mar 1, 2026 at 6:41 AM UTC
Again
Why hello there pleased to meet you, come on out and don’t be shy here. What’s your name? Oh! That’s mine also. Wait, you’re me! and shining just so.. so so brightly. Luminously. Future’s happy? Full of laughter? Thanks for sharing I’ll keep going Making new paths Living, lighter.
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Dec 4, 2025
Dec 4, 2025 at 6:22 AM UTC
Pleased to meet you
Let’s build an ark to ride out this storm I’ll bring you my loves and will keep you warm. Let’s look at the rainbow and follow it there let’s step out towards it to our new somewhere.
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Nov 4, 2025
Nov 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM UTC
Rainbow
My road has changed— new, unpaved. What signposts shall I follow? Left, right, straight ahead; wherever my heart will go? My heart will know and it will show the best way forward (unmarked tracks! off-road adventure then double back!) to tomorrow. Many times I have ignored my heart. Oh my peril, oh my loss! Tried to convince it on a different path… and now here I am, and will let it be boss choosing the path when I feel lost. Choosing the course to follow.
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Oct 21, 2025
Oct 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM UTC
Signposts of the heart
I think I’m a line and you’re a squiggle. When I met you, you talked— self-made audition — and I looked to see your real. You professed yourself happy to support me in my steady line whilst I supported them, the little ones. Things worked, but you ironed yourself flat just to sit alongside. Then your line bent, became tired from pretend. It wanted bold and unpredictable swirls, jagged edges! Mine wanted to gently sway at the most, glide like a calm, smiley river for them. We would have been easier with the real you-shape from the beginning. If our lines went in the same direction. Why contort yourself?
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Sep 27, 2025
Sep 27, 2025 at 5:55 AM UTC
Lines and contortions