This is Our Love

You wouldn’t notice her deep green eyes unless she’s staring straight into your own. She looks directly into mine, and she sees the colour where my deepest pain melts into my greatest wish. I’m captivated by the delicate power of her presence, my heart beating out a rhythm of fascination.
She [...]

The Truth About the Lies

BY NIKOLAI TJONGARERO
Lyrical users of speech. We abuse the language utilised with the goal of making their fantasies about what they most seem to need without the need to first achieve. Change moods we do indeed, because the escape we provide is a portal to a lost place in time that moves [...]

What Love?

BY GENEVIEVE VIEIRA
What love is love if overcome?
He promised an undying love
but pardons turned num.
Glory, glory loveless mercies
For now he lays in the arms of another.
What love is love which has no name?
I’ve sacrificed my heartships
but lovers shamed to claim.
Glory, glory desired covers
For now he lays in the arms of another.
What love is love if [...]

What it Means to Look White?

Poem by Premilla Murcott
What it means to look white?
Can’t help but think about it…
State of mind, random concept,
or just a lot of bullshit?
Some try to wrap me in a tiny box,
with a ribbon and a bow
Who I am, what’s on my mind -
they don’t really wanna know
What it means to be [...]

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