Monthly Archives: February 2017

Misshapen

Posted on February 18, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

You are there at the end of my misshapen words, syrup drizzled fatigue and pliant, I’m draped over well shaped thoughts, made of frozen tears from angels crying. Only a pen to unbury your secrets I’ve dug many holes across … Continue reading →

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When in Silence, Comes

Posted on February 18, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

When in silence, comes she whose heartbeat scatters stars for his ghosts to follow flicker out lost loves fall away, this susurrus to humble ears, hear not promises made of fairy dust. One is kept away from you, one comes … Continue reading →

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Awaiting this

Posted on February 18, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

Wave the hand of consciousness to reveal what lies beneath the mist of thinking. That realm of obscurity, where faith is a wick; knowledge, its wax; and the Beloved, the igniting breath. We read the words and seek their meaning, … Continue reading →

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Sound and No Sound of Waves

Posted on February 12, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

Slashes of pale blue behind clouds. While, wind and tide repeat the pattern of things bumping into one another. A metronome, all ticking without end. Who can fathom where it began. I thought last night, ocean waves combine in sound … Continue reading →

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Show Me Your Face

Posted on February 10, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

Of all the eyes I’ve gazed into, each pair was a lens that converged the same single light from so far within them; In my squinting quest, they must have thought me mad. But is was only in Your eyes … Continue reading →

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The Absence

Posted on February 5, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

Part I – The Absence In the silent strike of her haunting hours she slowly stirs, wakes, and sways from a drunken fog to awoken dreaming He beckons across a midnight lake and says, “Come beloved, wash the confusion from … Continue reading →

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The Aperture

Posted on February 5, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

I’ve surveyed the heavens for immeasurable treasure well beyond reaches of mankind’s endeavors. The quest is tricked by our limited views of mysteries disguised as discovery’s clues. We artists create what we seek to reveal as our hearts alchemically turn … Continue reading →

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Out There

Posted on February 4, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

Out there, just over the bruised horizon is another year disappearing. Out there on the western edge of remembrance, something is always disappearing. I look into this seascape with a forlorn feeling and yet an enigmatic foretelling. The curl and … Continue reading →

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Company on the Path

Posted on February 4, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

Rumi warned to never travel alone on the path. Yet I look around and find great and silent company everywhere. Still something is missing. Jami said “if you have never trodden the path of love, go away and fall in … Continue reading →

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