Category Archives: vignette

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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Company on the Path

Posted on February 4, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

Rumi warned to never travel alone on the path. Yet I look around and find great and silent company everywhere. Still something is missing. Jami said “if you have never trodden the path of love, go away and fall 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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My Teacher is Now

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

I asked her to tea. She said, “my teacher advises me not to.” I told her my teacher said it’s okay. She asked me who is my teacher, I said, “the tea is my teacher.” I asked to kiss her. … 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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Give Away What You Love: The Feather and the Mirror

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

I read a friends accounting of her meeting with an artisan named Calisto, a traditional Hawai’ian woodworker.  He drove up to her house one day to buy a wheelbarrow from her. Both she and Calisto immediately knew that their coming … Continue reading →

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Never Ending Spells of Bliss

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

Just beneath the expressive notes of the consoling ney (reed flute) I hear the current of His breath carrying the burden of the neyzen’s lamenting song. Such intimacy between the lips of man and the kiss of his Creator reveals … 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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Endless Unwrapping

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

I received such a peculiar combination of gifts. What is not peculiar about the diversity of unanticipated gifts is that “everything” is peculiar. The giving, the receiving – Oh, nothing can ever be so fully revealed with all this endless … 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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