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Give Away What You Love: The Feather and the Mirror

Posted on August 3, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

I read a friends accounting of her meeting with an artisan named Calisto, a traditional Hawai’ian woodworker.  He drove up to her house one day to buy a wheelbarrow from her. Both she and Calisto immediately knew that their coming … Continue reading →

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Centerpiece of Meaning

Posted on July 29, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

What is knowledge if it is not shining down upon her face Who is to know, who is to know To the canvas from which color leaps she is the gesso, I imagine it so I imagine it so What … Continue reading →

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We Danced in Circles

Posted on July 1, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

Prelude from that volcano Red hot words flew up from the caldera and with applause fell in confetti flakes of ash. Drifting through the metal haze, softening down in dirty velvet waves of sheets to become pressed and rubbed and … Continue reading →

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In the Scorch of Love

Posted on June 19, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

Looking into the lens of his eyes she pleas, “Where did my poet go? When did our paths part?” Her questions echo in emptiness, for the poems had drained from her spacious heart. He left her in the storm of … Continue reading →

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The Pillars of the Ride

Posted on June 19, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

(Day 9 of the Ramadan Riding series) 1. There is No Bike Path, but One Bike Path. There is no path, but one path, no matter which direction you go or how many trails you ride – even across separate … Continue reading →

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The Cycle of Dreams

Posted on May 25, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

I fell asleep upon the pains of my gone-forever past with your heart for my pillow until I dreamed at last. As my head rose and fell with your silent passing breaths, the deeper my hopes would drift beyond the … Continue reading →

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On Hope

Posted on May 21, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

If you give a deaf man a colorful music box with an ethereal dancing figurine within it. Do you hope that he hears the music? Do you hope that he enjoys the visual beauty and pirouette of the ballerina? Or … Continue reading →

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On Sorrow

Posted on May 21, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

Too often we treat sorrow as the shadow in the light that is better-off ignored. We might find it as the single black sheep in the flock that doesn’t see the white sheep as different. This thin and mangled dog … Continue reading →

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Spring Heart

Posted on April 26, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

Spring is a time of renewal. I’ve had more springtimes than years. Some kind of daily vernal awareness dawns. Something changes and there is a slight ache before the buds unfold, yet it is all serene and beautiful.  There are … Continue reading →

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One Stays, One Leaves

Posted on April 21, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

So long as we hide within the shadows in the fields behind our own abode, the heart is never empty, the heart is never full. And so all wayfarers eventually leave seeking their own light thereby missing the flame that could have been yours, and in … Continue reading →

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