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 Nov 2023 JoJo Nguyen
irinia
the first snow so warm wonder
is whirling in our living hands
seconds can be windows
they can feel a kind of truth
an impossible simultaneity
of tears and laughter,
a peacefulness as deep as the roots.

let me circle around your mystery
give me one more second
to smile back at you
 Oct 2023 JoJo Nguyen
Ciel Noir
Echo
 Oct 2023 JoJo Nguyen
Ciel Noir
subliminal reverberation
of some long-forgotten song
a melody that calls the soul
back to a place we once belonged

darker than night
stranger than time
deeper than tribe
older than words

inflecting language to reflect
an echo of what we have heard
 Feb 2023 JoJo Nguyen
Eloisa
And just like that,
I lost my poetry again.
But my nighttime friend was there.
The moon who holds my desires and fear.
The one who keeps all my tangled thoughts.
Reminding me of the wishes I’ve daily written in the night sky.
All my stories of pain and love,
my sunken dreams and storms.
Yet I told the moon of what I know,
that my loss does not have
to be an end.
A realization
 Jan 2023 JoJo Nguyen
ryn
Salvage
 Jan 2023 JoJo Nguyen
ryn
.
Peer into the keyhole.

And seek what you may…

But with your eyes
you will find not,
what it is you seek.

For it must be the heart
that commands this salvage.


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 Jan 2023 JoJo Nguyen
Eloisa
2023
 Jan 2023 JoJo Nguyen
Eloisa
And the tears you cried in 2022 water the seeds of hope, love, and healing you planted for another new journey.
Raising a glass to the love, hope, faith, and strength that remained in our hearts through the entire 2022🥂Cheers to the infinite possibilities and brighter opportunities! 🔅Manifesting my goals by taking on new challenges this year.  Here's to a hopeful and better year. Happy 2023!
 Jan 2023 JoJo Nguyen
irinia
there is something good
and some light
in this desire
enraging my cells
with divination chanting
sculpting my shape
in violent curves
I don't recongnize the hues
of mornings
because of frenzy:
the new definition of gravity
along the lines
mesmerizing visions of
softness and caring

love is a whirlwind
in any language
a clear water
so you can see
how translucent
nakedness can be

hers is
the bending of space
to smaller and smaller
atoms of delight,
fusion, diffusion, infusion

it holds you tight
from the very centre
(heart&lungs)
when it breaks you
and then these traces
the swarming of photons
in the fabric of skin
sweet radiance,
energetic warmness
an arch, a cohort of waves
crushing everything
like cherries' sense
reality sense
roads' sense

a scarring refusing
to scream/bleed
defiance of stillness
music of laughter
sun raising in your hands

there is something beautiful
for the poetess in me
it just describes herself well
for the never-day
it transmutes
anything:
beauty into horror
horror into despair
despair into words
even thought into
singing birds
“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke
 Nov 2022 JoJo Nguyen
Mote
pondering that ancient consumption
how
hunger
inside a body of nothing preys upon self
how
a primeval meal ended in this wrist bone
this ankle
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