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Forget Your Name

Posted on April 5, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

Of what use is it to whisper plaints to a steady candle flame If steadiness is what you seek in counsel, be silent, forget your name. Gaze breathlessly, hold your secrets still the heart is too, a glowing lamp with … Continue reading →

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The Mixing of Colors

Posted on April 5, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

The heart recognizes what the soul’s known forever. And on we go, linking our past to our future, interweaving the fabric of lives together. There is a storm outside. There is a storm inside… the one without has taken over, … Continue reading →

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Writing about God

Posted on March 26, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

“Write about God and this love,” She requests but of what do I write? I softly protest. What is the color of Her absence? what is the scent of His breathlessness. She is the weight of the path pressed into … Continue reading →

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The Unpainter

Posted on March 24, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

Live poetry.  Beauty is what is carelessly spilled over the top of a drunkards wine cup. Not in gluttony or want, but rather appreciation. A sated appreciation of those who can appreciate thirst. Beauty is the mess we leave in … Continue reading →

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Misshapen

Posted on February 18, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

You are there at the end of my misshapen words, syrup drizzled fatigue and pliant, I’m draped over well shaped thoughts, made of frozen tears from angels crying. Only a pen to unbury your secrets I’ve dug many holes across … Continue reading →

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When in Silence, Comes

Posted on February 18, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

When in silence, comes she whose heartbeat scatters stars for his ghosts to follow flicker out lost loves fall away, this susurrus to humble ears, hear not promises made of fairy dust. One is kept away from you, one comes … Continue reading →

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Awaiting this

Posted on February 18, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

Wave the hand of consciousness to reveal what lies beneath the mist of thinking. That realm of obscurity, where faith is a wick; knowledge, its wax; and the Beloved, the igniting breath. We read the words and seek their meaning, … Continue reading →

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Sound and No Sound of Waves

Posted on February 12, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

Slashes of pale blue behind clouds. While, wind and tide repeat the pattern of things bumping into one another. A metronome, all ticking without end. Who can fathom where it began. I thought last night, ocean waves combine in sound … Continue reading →

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Show Me Your Face

Posted on February 10, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

Of all the eyes I’ve gazed into, each pair was a lens that converged the same single light from so far within them; In my squinting quest, they must have thought me mad. But is was only in Your eyes … Continue reading →

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The Absence

Posted on February 5, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

Part I – The Absence In the silent strike of her haunting hours she slowly stirs, wakes, and sways from a drunken fog to awoken dreaming He beckons across a midnight lake and says, “Come beloved, wash the confusion from … Continue reading →

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