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You are This

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

You are not ON the blindly unfolding path, you ARE the path. You are as you are as you wander, no matter where you wander. It is your most divine countenance along the way that creates the barely utterable mystical … Continue reading →

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Friend or Foe

Posted on March 3, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Below the exalted peaks of a mountain is its root. Plunging down and down, below the last stand of the tree line. Your spirit abrades as it Rumbles across the scree Deep into the replenishing pores of bedrock. Every one … Continue reading →

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Friend or Foe

Posted on March 3, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

  Below the exalted peaks of a mountain is its root. Plunging down and down, below the last stand of the tree line. Your spirit abrades as it Rumbles across the scree Deep into the replenishing pores of bedrock. Every … Continue reading →

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The tides of february have receded

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

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Light Too Far

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

Rose snipped from thorns Still another grows … yours dies, You look too far For beauty. Walk over earth, No place to dig, You search too far for gold. Questions rise Past your throat, Seeking answers Closer than the vein … Continue reading →

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Rose Petals Falling in the Garden

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

Memories fade to susurrus. Dusk cast shadows rise the temple wall. Amber skin, maternal fields, Upon soft abdomen, his ear falls. Below the peel of empyrean, fruit of a woman, brave the man who clings the rind, But braver he let’s go in … Continue reading →

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Introspection: Tetrabiblos (short version)

Posted on February 9, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Introspection and a curious awareness of surroundings make for endless fields from which to amass self-inspired knowledge. This awareness does not manifest in words; no, these are only learned approximations of our inner experience (qualia) of the universe. We are … Continue reading →

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No Small Year (2013)

Posted on February 9, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

No small year, he thought. People left the earth by violence, sickness, self neglect; friends of the heart were found, love reborn, spirit awoken. Confused by bitterness, blessed with forgiveness… he struggled as some turned their backs on him, while … Continue reading →

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My Highway’s Washed Away

Posted on January 31, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiGXnI7CM1k This song by DCD swelled this poem up within me – Prologue: sitting at my desk, Criss-cross applesauce gasping like a dying child. Dying to flee the corpse of a man. I, not a child anymore, Who’s imagination is … Continue reading →

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Two Arrivers Meet

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

“Though slowly and with pain, the objects of the affections change, as the objects of thought do. There are moments when the affections rule and absorb the man, and make his happiness dependent on a person or persons. But in … Continue reading →

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