If I keep my voice within,
It becomes a dragon A dangerous one With flames Invisible one That eats dignity And eats meaning And feeds itself on senselessness Nonsense is what it breeds Nothingness makes it survive And reasons disappear New black ones come out And then there is no escape The voice kept within The silence in your life Kills you With inaction And irony And anger And lies Deception J.GJ. 2012
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Peaceful creatures
Two cats A man Three birds In sleep Peaceful and together In love Souls wondering in other worlds In hope Beauties not faking life In sleep And the awake Feel Peaceful Dreamful Hopeful In their sleep In their love A dozen flowers A woman And some bananas In colors Observing… J.GJ. 2013 Out of a window
You can have the most beautiful moments Looking out of that window From your library chair Over your laptop screen Life happens Out of a window Leaves fly The wind blows Waltzes excite leaves Big ones, little ones Riding the airy flows And colors explode They move as you work And eyes catch them sometimes Memory snapshots And you get amazed At momentary beauty And hurry to share Pointing at them The fire full sky The white grayish clouds The black blue dark night Approaching there far Out of a window Happiness waits Its energy grabbed Inside the library flaked Among the words on paper Among the pages on books Among the scribbles on documents Intensely worked through That’s work in the library Amazing surprisingly Where hope pushes forward To open new windows Towards a different world Wishing it saves for us The same exciting beauty We find out of a window This fall J.GJ. 23 October 2013 Alderman Library, UVA, Charlottesville, VA Get me out of here
The room The walls Get me out of here The thoughts The gloom I am waiting Get me out of here The streets The parks The sky The joy They are waiting J.GJ. May 27, 2014 Duty comes from Love
Or for some Love from Duty We are confused beings Humanity confuses us And we forget Which one came first Duty or Love Love or Duty And we end up equating them And being misunderstood Or misunderstanding ourselves And being mistreated Or mistreating ourselves We forget to look back Equality is ours Equations are just and fair They are the truths we cannot question Anymore, anytime And all becomes superficial Our truths others’ Others’ truths worthless And we stop getting to our heart And we stop talking from our heart And our heart Bleeds Hurts Hardens Becomes a machine That serves duty And love becomes a mystery No one can solve Must solve Or talk about J.GJ. January 31, 2015 That is how I feel now
My laptop knows It told me There are no windows No available windows Windows to look from Windows to jump from Windows to open and get out Windows to lock And open And breath The fresh air welcoming Regenerating my hope My smile My way Of living Every day With a screen And the deadline Of a dissertation Closeby No available windows Are there? J.GJ. November 2, 2017 Boston College It is the cat’s sleep
Its being there that gets me Every time To relax and to relax There is no question J. Gj. July 2020 In my country,
Bodies are Cheap, Minds are Great, And Minds, Have no Bodies To Care. J.GJ. February 7, 2020 |
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