Yearly Archives: 2015

Essay on the Oneness of Being

Posted on November 3, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

A mystic seeks to sense what he knows is beyond the capabilities of his own instrumentation. He knows the search is an abandonment of all he knows…and perhaps all he knew that he sought to refine. It is surrender, submission … Continue reading →

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The “hidden potential” and the “emptiness” of all things

Posted on August 30, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Here is the irony with visiting our own wilderness – as soon as we get there, it’s no longer wild.  How does one remain still with such compelling curiosity?  How does the ney flute remain silent, when its purpose as the once … Continue reading →

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Matt’s Rancho Martinez

Posted on August 25, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

I was sitting at Matt’s Rancho Martinez outside Dallas.  I caught the blurr of a waiter zooming by with shots on his tray.  It’s a loud place – reminds me of the echoing noise of my grade school gymnasiums I guess. … Continue reading →

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The Passenger

Posted on August 21, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Was it frightening when I went away? I miss you, when I used to know you. “I suppose. Were your journeys difficult? Because I’m still here…climbing, and I miss you too.” I would often scan the signalling stars and wish … Continue reading →

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Darkness Longs for Its Shadow

Posted on August 9, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

I find myself in darkness now…and it’s here I wish to linger. Darkness, an old friend who listens to my enlightening stories with a sardonic grin and small dagger that he slowly but deftly twirls in his fingers. He knows … Continue reading →

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In an Instant

Posted on July 20, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Merciful pain reveals to you that the ghosts of those you love are real, and those departed you thought were real, …never were. Do not unhand your own self-awareness to take the hand of a divinely bestowed beloved For God takes … Continue reading →

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The Noisy Ones

Posted on June 28, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

With little heed to the sanctity of silence, morning is maddened Everything howls and screeches Barks on queue Little fish flip themselves through the surface, seeking water striders, unaware bees wings buzz tiny vortexes Cows moan across the lake in … Continue reading →

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Everything is Becoming

Posted on June 5, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

We are left in the once lost values of solitude and aloneness, that we might see both the multitudes and Singularity in a single glance of paradoxical beauty. Gibran says, “Sadness is a wall between two gardens…” Perhaps it is one wall, in one … Continue reading →

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Social Media and Literary Dalliance

Posted on June 5, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Words. Those damned words. They pour through me like grains of sand from the womb of the writers mind to the readers heart… and the hourglass is turned again. Another hour passes With the passing hand. Wee hours spent in … Continue reading →

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story of you (auto-writing on the tracks)

Posted on June 5, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

  The story of you is mentioned in A polished mirror My story is the collision of what I say and what you hear My expanding wasteline is filled with regrets And fallen rose petals I am just words. Poorly … Continue reading →

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