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Why it rains

Posted on May 7, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

My love expels from the aquifer of my being,in synchrony with a mountain top weathering. Rock erodes into dust, coloring the sky red and rust. Water gathers about the grainupon everything it rains. Earth quenched by wineArouses the timeless out … Continue reading →

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Fashioner of Wind

Posted on May 7, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Layla is the faint attar at dawn quiet, sinuously flowing slowly in the morning She stirs the fashioner of winds Majnun is the feather Whenever his beloved gets too close, upon her wings, he flies off and away again. tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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The Pain of the Thorn

Posted on May 7, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

the pain of the thorn is where the rose gets it color from where fragrance manifests its message tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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Halcyon

Posted on May 7, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

We occupy different parts of the earth but we share the same sky look up everything is up there boundless cloud pastures of the imagination roam in halcyon tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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The Eyes

Posted on May 7, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

I am always amazed at how far your eyes can seeIt’s not the conquest of visionit is a surrender to the unseeable. tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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Where the Beloved Resides

Posted on May 7, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

How revealing to find ourselves in the abyss,  searching the seven continents for answers,  when all along we are amidst God’s shoreless ocean,  surrounded by love. We run from the truth  because we cannot bear the pain of a silent … Continue reading →

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River Captain

Posted on May 2, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

I’d no real idea what I was looking at  it seems a sublime visage foretells the future,  marks the past,  more than it reveals the present moment.  Upstream and downstream share the same unseen – source and destination both obscured … Continue reading →

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Opposites share the same space

Posted on May 2, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

The smallest point, is infinitely small,unlimited in this respect;which is more than we can say for the planets…which are limited in size “Nothing” is the disclosure of “Everything,”in a perpetually diminishing state. So long as we recede into Nothingness,Everything has … Continue reading →

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Unfree Poem

Posted on May 1, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

A poem is a bird in a gilded cage a pining soul on a weeping page. Open the door but still it stays Close the door and it flies away. tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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The mountain on your chest

Posted on May 1, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Our messages, all of them past and present, but an ensemble of One beckoning source. It is true, how wind – the pen, and water – the scroll, will lay a volatile couplet, a brief fragrance, a ripple, a wave … Continue reading →

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