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Humble in Our Sound

Posted on December 22, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Humans should be humbled by the miraculous gift of song. We are guided by nature to compose, but oft’ led by our egos to recite. Let us be humble in our sound, for that is truly when friendship, love, and beauty … Continue reading →

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I Followed a Writer Up a Tree

Posted on December 18, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

I followed a writer up a prodigious tree Every leaf I brushed, his poem. From the crown I scanned the pastoral a poetic landscape in repose, A resplendent chorus of Glistening verdant wisdom. O’ vast vibrato of sibilance slipping the … Continue reading →

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Nuances Matter: Poetry is a Mistress

Posted on December 16, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

The subtlety of sultry does not hide well among the obvious! We catch each others meter across the crowded parlor and steal off to the wings for sodden romantic whispers. Her muted presence is a cloud born particle of dust – … Continue reading →

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Sibilant Skin

Posted on December 16, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

When still, the world turns around the axis of my heart. From the dark within, lemniscates of a lantern light tie ribbons in my eyes; will you know me then? And when I die, a steady sibilant wind of myrrh … Continue reading →

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Everything

Posted on December 16, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Everything we see is it’s pristine essence casting the same light from the womb of darkness. Gripped by the dolor of a glaucous sky, love’s longing reminds us that nothing is ever truly lost to anything less than the visual … Continue reading →

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A Fair Curve in a Slow Current

Posted on December 12, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

My death is a lengthening, eastern shadow creeping. As the sun sets on a westerly life fountain coins, falling, deepening. Throw away nothing of a poets reaping recollection, Glowing golden within the chaff, darkened wheat in separation. He plays to … Continue reading →

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The Garden Road

Posted on December 11, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Nourished by love for the unseen within, when seen by a heart, shimmers, sans end. Swells the bud a flame before bloom, sans thorn, sans pain sans sojourner’s wound. The wilting, the dying, the falling to earth, the paradox wrapped in a gift … Continue reading →

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Wild Vine

Posted on December 10, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

We are each alone and together everywhere. Not a molecule of you do I contain; refresh your beauty where you need for you travel like a wild vine in search of falling light, but your roots run deep into me, oh Beloved, I … Continue reading →

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quips 3

Posted on December 6, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

I’ve surrounded myself with dear friends who are the foundation for their own loving truths. Some of us just write the words we hear in the hearts of others… as such, who is poet and who is listener!? Educate our … Continue reading →

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Sans Words

Posted on December 5, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Sans a single word within the voluminous corpus of epic poetry, their unrevealed meaning would still flourish beyond the capacity of endless rows of bookshelves. Gaze silently, for One quiet candle can consume a thousand suns… And be blown out … Continue reading →

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