Category Archives: Poems Beyond Their Words

contains poetry inclined toward mysticism, gnosticism, Irfan, Tasawwuf, Sufism

Palpable Specter of Absence

Posted on January 14, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

The palpable specter of absence, brushes the lips ere the press of a kiss, softening on the edge of a sigh’s sweet perception and there upon this precipice we cast our wishes in all cardinal directions. Every sad memory holds … Continue reading →

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Leaves and Limbs

Posted on January 8, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

“I free you,” said the bare limbs to the falling leaves. Below, they gathered in a memorial; A sea of so many colors, Perhaps To honor the loss of their beloved or perhaps to finally effervesce in so many hues … Continue reading →

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Precisely Enough

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

When I do not have You I endure, Yet, I’d break were You only mine Without You I depart When I’m with You, I arrive. If I am kissing You, I cannot hear Your words. When we are done kissing, … Continue reading →

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Long Sweet Solitude

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

O’ long sweet solitude beside You and if not with You, then surrounding the thought of, If not the thought, then within the vast lingering emptiness that only Your limitless essence could leave. I melt and pour myself into Your … Continue reading →

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I Came to Draw You

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

trim-7a789ed5-d6b3-4427-9377-50668f2e562d I came to draw You, and with my own eyes, You painted all the cosmos between us, and then You opened my eyes, and with the illusion of vision, I imagined myself, imagining You. You, Who we cannot see, … Continue reading →

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Heart Holds Vigil

Posted on November 17, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

My heart holds vigil While the pen’s away As the mind settles Along the edge of day At my horizon’s melting there, Your stars appear where I’ve gone dark With nothing to say, Aye, my heart holds vigil With its … Continue reading →

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The Edge

Posted on November 17, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

There is love at the edge and on either steep side below the scintillating surface and ocean’s lost depths and boundless sky. I am the ocean’s thin edge step thee nearer to me step far into this sea foam you … Continue reading →

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Candle Shadows

Posted on October 16, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

Hauntings in the tiny hours, When you wake in the morning darkness Surrounded by the sparks and sputters of the world, But yet quite alone in its starkness. Ghosts of things you wished you had said To visages and voices … Continue reading →

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Wistful Astronomer

Posted on October 16, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

Wistful Astronomer Still the wistful schoolboy aspiring to become her astronomer. Through the long scope of imagining eyes, I thought to kiss her lips, perhaps to strike a spire of light upon her celestial diffidence. With my transit and theodolite, … Continue reading →

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Lion and Rabbit

Posted on October 13, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

I coo with subtle caress imbued in our words Aloft, then settling in the currents of my heart Like the gentle lion soothing his burnt paw kneading in the cool softness of a rabbit’s fur; His pain pressed tenderly against … Continue reading →

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