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Dreamt you wrote a poem

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

I dreamt you wrote a poem and I read it in my sleep; I woke in low light to find it true, it shone my eyes, every word of you My arms too, have become my wings. You do this … Continue reading →

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25wtT (part 2)

Posted on May 2, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Out to the continents edge, expecting answers by journey’s end… we stand on wave-washed driftwood, perplexed… and the mind lets go where the heart begins. tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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The Road

Posted on May 2, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Do not love a love so readily given, let it love you and abrade; to sink lightly to its caress. Love is not the road you’re on rather, you are the road, under its steps. I am a bridge you … Continue reading →

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All We’ve Lost

Posted on May 2, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Spin about a thread-fine axis, collapse to a point, disappear into the universe through the portal of an infinitely small door. Do this when you desire and return to the plane of earthly existence… All you’ve loved, within all that … Continue reading →

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The Need for a Lover

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

The difference between loving outwardly and going deeper and deeper into the anthology of my life is that of a need for a lover.   Of outward and inward, one is always a lonely journey into the past, the other, … Continue reading →

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Writers Jihad

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

Hence this writers jihad… We’ve become modernists of belief, infused with the fear of punishment taught to us all our lives; we take the whip, milk, and honey from the “hands of God” as if those were the gifts of … Continue reading →

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Lost in State (autowriting)

Posted on April 18, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Lost in state, no where to go Everywhere to be In you the earth In me the sea In us a world Made from the melding On a grouchy road the seat bumbles. A tad of money for them a … Continue reading →

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Birds of a Song

Posted on April 18, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

    Rain paths brush clear a sky to stark beautiful disclosure I listen to her notes of doubt, softly Singing through the azure With doves ear, low, I listen on for another who perchance is a muse, perched atop a pendulous pen Swaying … Continue reading →

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Waiting for the Mulch to Arrive

Posted on April 18, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Saturday morning, waiting for the mulch to arrive A particular pattern of a bird chirps as I compose the chantey water striders stand still on winter fountains parting tear expresso, cupped buttered oak steams flavored expressions a poem before the poetry … Continue reading →

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Seamless with Light

Posted on April 16, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Only beauty grows from this visceral ache, like a seed pushing up through the earth of your chest When a heart takes root into the abyss of the self, then Multihued flowers can lift high in the welkin The pain … Continue reading →

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