Category Archives: character sketch

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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Posted on January 31, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

This portrait was drawn by my dear friend Arshia Qasim; artist, poet, writer, empath, neurologist and the list goes on. She has recently taken on the founding of the Alhamra Art Center of New Jersey (https://www.facebook.com/ALHAMRAARTNJ/). Here, she will be … Continue reading →

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A lion will never eat me because it hates me

Posted on November 24, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

I wonder what else have we bred out of the domestic house cat over all these centuries? I look at my cat Tiger and see the ancestry of vicious animals, vicious not out of malice, but nature. We sifted this from … Continue reading →

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Asleep with Dragonfly

Posted on August 3, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

This habit of lying on the ground outside placing my ear to the earth. So one warm fall day I found myself in the arboretum, my face nuzzled into the breath of the forest floor; I became intoxicated by the sweet attar of … Continue reading →

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Darkness Longs for Its Shadow

Posted on March 5, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

I spoke of poems I’d never write Of ghosts that haunt in broad daylight Like the time I kissed you silently When you forgot you said you’d remember me. Words that spill from a poet’s pen Form iron links that … Continue reading →

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Intersections

Posted on January 18, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

Swaying on the train, Lovers lean and my lips Curl and part vicariously That I might complete Their kiss. I move with them In their hesitation with their Tongues’ self-consciousness. I only imagine If they were us Our uncompleted love. … Continue reading →

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The Known and the Knowing

Posted on December 31, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

I have spent a lifetime trusting men I’ve never personally come to know particularly well on this earthly plane and dimension, and they have never let me down. Rather, it is those I think I know all too well that … Continue reading →

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Weaving Friends

Posted on December 26, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

I felt the pounding below my feet lighten with my steps… running through suburbia on an unusually warm late fall day. As I moved along, I noticed next to me a single spiders web stretching a great distance between two … Continue reading →

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The Outlands

Posted on December 8, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

The back country landscape is sliced open right down its center.  Panning left and right, I see things slipping by either side of me as I drive this truck through the outlands.  Imagine me; walking the trellis lengths of this winter vineyard, only … Continue reading →

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Ramblings of a Majnun

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

“The apparent is the bridge to the real” (Al-Majazu qantarat al-Haqiqa) – Idries Shah. To the human, see, everything is in the process of unbecoming. She described my darkness…and it spoke. I am not simply another colored rose in the … Continue reading →

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