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Heart becomes the sun

Posted on January 14, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Heart becomes a blood dense sun Consuming all of anyone come to take a seat beside or to sacrifice their burdens. Goes the ghosts into the pyre soften, silent from the ire consuming even their own ashes magnesium memories in … Continue reading →

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Into the Company of Shadows

Posted on January 13, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Educate our hearts before we speak our minds. For it is we who keep our shadow company, not our shadow ours. I try to catch the latest news, Lest otherwise, I become rolled over by it. And I heard the … Continue reading →

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Into the Vacant

Posted on January 12, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

God undoes everything From interstellar crystalline To keep a distance in between Each fair feather in gusting flocks in shifting weaves with sequenced wings numbered bezels of the clock ripples role in circles, serpentine spilt in pools of synchrony beneath … Continue reading →

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Smithereens

Posted on January 12, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Love’s mystery unraveling is a star burning out… Naught but a flame without its coal; a constellation sans axis to circle about. When its meaning exceeds the object of dreams, Let it go, let it go to be loved to … Continue reading →

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#TAG Poetry: Hello Poetry’s Top Ten #Tags 5/10/14 (converted to poetry)

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

#love takes a #life, but be not #sad for, #pain gives #depression respite, but more that #death, gives life #poetry, so that in times of trouble it’s #you I see, as a #heart in a lighthouse for a #poem lost … Continue reading →

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Iqra!

Posted on January 1, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

“What if the first command were ‘Write!’ not ‘Read!’” (intended and received as a deeply introspective and profound posit by Maha) What of the pristine experience Of pure meaning before the knowledge of word, it’s metaphor. Even this pondering without … Continue reading →

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Enter 2015

Posted on January 1, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Morning reflections as we enter 2015: Civilization has evolved over time – and as I reflect on the present, I’ve never found a conflict between these religions where there wasn’t first an abandonment of faith. Each closes their eyes in … Continue reading →

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Poems that will get me killed (2015, Issue 1)

Posted on December 29, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

I wrote to her sacrilege Toasted haram She, an idol among dregs I, a totem in her palm Love lifts on rose scent leaving petals to quiver all between us once, rent, only kindling to give her Hence, I turn to death which best knows life and set fire to my nest … Continue reading →

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Pulsing Inkwell

Posted on December 29, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Love’s letters clatter in currents Winds curl to stillness, in a talus of potpourri, Season totem, a cluster of hope, waiting For one match pulled and struck, To scare the ghosts from the pyre. In a choke of smoke from … Continue reading →

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We Knew Too Much

Posted on December 24, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

We knew too much to continue our lives and into the darkness we fell A poem was written, we reviewed it, but realized we already knew of the downfall of men so why continue the poem, but it was beyond … Continue reading →

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