jg: Favorites

Mar 2017 jg

mi

take me back a month ago;
I'll pretend I don't have to go back home.
I'll pretend I don't have a return ticket
as long as I get to stay a bit,
just a bit...longer
because, there, people were nicer!
I stood a little taller!
The air was cleaner
because you weren't in the radar

I basked in the glory or a lion with a fish tail.
I walked down pavements that always looked freshly painted.
I passed people who didn't look like me
nor looked at me.
There was absolutely nothing there
that could have reminded me of thee but...
me.

I chose to see you in the boat on top of a building
because you said we'd sail through the clouds
to catch each others dreams together.
I chose to see you in train stations
where I thought we'd say goodbye
rather than part with a short reply.

oh, take me back to that city
where I can be reminded of you
without you.

a little poem featuring my longing for singapore and, well, you.

d.j.

#love #nostalgia #singapore

Mar 2017 jg

Man made jungle(love)

Mar 2017 jg

xerez bridglall

Man made jungle(love)

The way you watched as I ran ahead in search of elephants,
Is not the reason I feel in love with you,
On that crisp autumn day.
The way we both agreed on how terrifying it would be to zip line over the man made jungle,
Was not the reason I held your hand so tightly.
The reason I feel in love with you was how excited you were to see the red pandas,
" Like they're ready for a wedding"
The reason I held your hand so tightly,
Was because the butterflies in my stomach were threatening to make me fly.

#love #man #autumn #air #made #jungle #zoo

Mar 2017 jg

Time loops

Mar 2017 jg

Aeerdna

Time loops

Trapped in a time loop
where all that happens is you
coming to me, kissing my feelings with your smile,
then crashing me
and leaving me there
with my naked hopes
hiding in the deepest grounds of my heart
again and again.

I am the prisoner of my own deathly wishes,
of the same repeating illusions,
and your voice in my head
is singing the same song on repeat
like a broken cassette
stuck in this old, rusty radio that is my mind.

I am trapped in a time loop
and all I do
is getting lost
somewhere on the paths of your soul
where my dreams get born
just so they can go to die.

Mar 2017 jg

A Blood That Pours Black

Mar 2017 jg

Scarlet Niamh

A Blood That Pours Black

Touch the sky with me
and we can fly, fly, fly
away from these places,
wrong faces, all the traces
of the spaces we created
between our lonely hearts
and forgotten minds;
the parts of us that shouldn't exist
crying in their cavernous
pinholes, echoing
and rupturing in feeling
through the waves of something
more, something undeniable
and true. The pinprick
in which my emotions
are contained
is gargling with a blood
that pours black yet,
as it trickles through
me, I can feel it restoring beauty
to the yellowed valleys of my skin.

~~ Blood will heal me. ~~

#love #self #beauty #black #blood #fix #rot #decay #heal #restore

Mar 2017 jg

Hunger

Mar 2017 jg

Eric W

Hunger

Never the one with a safety net,
having to move quickly, silently,
and calculated.
In a house pulling me into
depression,
further than I could pull myself,
I refused.
Never to be trapped into
ammonia soaked walls and
defeated thinking of years
past,
a "golden child,"
I moved on.
How it hurt to hear those words,
from someone that has
never been hungry,
never realized that the hunger
never fades and that I
never had a choice.
It was get up,
get out, stay moving,
or die
forever.

Mar 2017 jg

a cure

Mar 2017 jg

Nada Syafira

a cure

all i need is a little rainbow
after a stormy rain

all i need is a drop of water
in a drought desert

all i need is a smile
that forms on your face

my favourite curved lines
that lights up the whole town

fallen white blizzards,
all the wintry days

fall, summer, winter
all seasons along

darling, a little smile
of yours
would surely be nice..

#love #heart #smile #lover #warm #cure

Mar 2017 jg

Showered

Mar 2017 jg

samantha neal

Showered

Tonight, I scrubbed at my body like my skin was trying to forget you.
I pressed soap into every individual pore as hard as I once wrapped myself around you,
Stripped my hair of all oils so that it could no longer feel like how your fingers ran through it
And let the bubbles run down the curves of my body as I turned the water so hot-
My skin glowed red and angry, I wasn’t sure if it was at you, or me.
The steam evaporated into the ceiling as quickly as you did when I drove away.

I stepped out- skin burning and fingers like raisins,
Collarbones red from scrubbing so roughly,
Hair tangled and dripping, soap still running down my back
Drops of water tracing each knot in my spine before dripping into the puddle at my feet.
I wrapped the towel tightly around me and it didn’t feel like you any longer,
It finally felt like I washed you down the drain.
New skin will grow over and I will finally belong to myself again.

Mar 2017 jg

Sweet Reality

Mar 2017 jg

Organized Chaos

Sweet Reality

I could never imagine a beauty like you
to have ever been with me.
Reality slowly sinks within
that this could blossom like a tree.
Pinching myself from head to toe
I feel all the pain there should be.
Praying and hoping to always feel it
not to feel lost out at sea.

The way you smile and make me laugh
brings blissful emotions to my heart.
I yearn and strive to be a better man
so I don't give you a reason to depart.
Your love and beauty seem to be from a book
that only can happen in fiction.
Yet here you are in the flesh,
and we're able to cause sweet friction.

If I were to see you with anyone else
I would chuckle and laugh it off.
Quickly, I'd turn and walk away
hiding my tears, pretending to cough.
At least I could say, "Dreams come true"
as I remember the great times we had.
Then I would come back, in a flash
to know that I would be forever sad.

But here you are, as I am too
in this moment of sweet affection.
I'll always hold onto these memories
even if I'm dwindling from infection.
As I lay in bed and gaze up at you
a tear of joy slips from my eye.
Reminiscing of all the love you gave
unfortunately, this will be our final goodbye.

ZA love you.

#love #real #forever

Mar 2017 jg

ZA

Mar 2017 jg

Organized Chaos

ZA

Love is beautifully grand
this is absolutely true.
But I wouldn't sincerely know
if I were with anyone but you.