Monthly Archives: January 2017

Keystone

Posted on January 31, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

Thou art the Keystone in love’s majestic archway Ne’er having to duck my head, here unafraid I walk through You, I walk beneath You, whilst to my own wayfaring heart I bow and pray. Before Your door standing, all senses … Continue reading →

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The Old Sea Dog

Posted on January 31, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

On winter’s eastern seaboard haunts Spirits bled from the seams of the heart Beneath the torpor of a glaucous sky We soak and settle in sobering eyes. One writes, one waits, Both writhe through relentless change One cannot forsake his … Continue reading →

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In the Hidden Wood

Posted on January 31, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

I thought to myself, “I have a haunting feeling I’ll be passing this way again.” But what if I were to take a different path to get here and then from here onward, yet another. Could you be with me? … Continue reading →

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the waiting

Posted on January 31, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

the waiting the mantra of hope, the sound of absence, a breeze through the empty room lost in the wood at night, at the day’s darkest moments, there is a candle I can faintly see if I look with a … Continue reading →

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Toppled Chairs

Posted on January 31, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

      The slow crawl of unkempt grasses there is so much absurdity to a chair that never accepts that it is a toppled chair, to see, it is the rest of the world who must be titled it’s … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 31, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

This portrait was drawn by my dear friend Arshia Qasim; artist, poet, writer, empath, neurologist and the list goes on. She has recently taken on the founding of the Alhamra Art Center of New Jersey (https://www.facebook.com/ALHAMRAARTNJ/). Here, she will be … Continue reading →

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Of All You Behold

Posted on January 14, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

  You are the portrait of all you behold, each vista a hue in a story told Of those you’ve loved despite possible loss for every true artist finds gold in the dross. You are the symphony of the sounds … Continue reading →

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Palpable Specter of Absence

Posted on January 14, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

The palpable specter of absence, brushes the lips ere the press of a kiss, softening on the edge of a sigh’s sweet perception and there upon this precipice we cast our wishes in all cardinal directions. Every sad memory holds … Continue reading →

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Aesthetic Nihilism

Posted on January 11, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

Beauty is rebellious… An essence within the march of surly youthful endeavors to always buck the establishment. Beauty usurps beauty in a multispectral uprising against the status quo. It seeks the foreground of awareness, and the ever-expanding symmetry behind which … Continue reading →

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My Teacher is Now

Posted on January 8, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

I asked her to tea. She said, “my teacher advises me not to.” I told her my teacher said it’s okay. She asked me who is my teacher, I said, “the tea is my teacher.” I asked to kiss her. … Continue reading →

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