Monthly Archives: January 2015

Into the Company of Shadows

Posted on January 13, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Educate our hearts before we speak our minds. For it is we who keep our shadow company, not our shadow ours. I try to catch the latest news, Lest otherwise, I become rolled over by it. And I heard the … Continue reading →

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Into the Vacant

Posted on January 12, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

God undoes everything From interstellar crystalline To keep a distance in between Each fair feather in gusting flocks in shifting weaves with sequenced wings numbered bezels of the clock ripples role in circles, serpentine spilt in pools of synchrony beneath … Continue reading →

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Smithereens

Posted on January 12, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Love’s mystery unraveling is a star burning out… Naught but a flame without its coal; a constellation sans axis to circle about. When its meaning exceeds the object of dreams, Let it go, let it go to be loved to … Continue reading →

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#TAG Poetry: Hello Poetry’s Top Ten #Tags 5/10/14 (converted to poetry)

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

#love takes a #life, but be not #sad for, #pain gives #depression respite, but more that #death, gives life #poetry, so that in times of trouble it’s #you I see, as a #heart in a lighthouse for a #poem lost … Continue reading →

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Iqra!

Posted on January 1, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

“What if the first command were ‘Write!’ not ‘Read!’” (intended and received as a deeply introspective and profound posit by Maha) What of the pristine experience Of pure meaning before the knowledge of word, it’s metaphor. Even this pondering without … Continue reading →

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Enter 2015

Posted on January 1, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Morning reflections as we enter 2015: Civilization has evolved over time – and as I reflect on the present, I’ve never found a conflict between these religions where there wasn’t first an abandonment of faith. Each closes their eyes in … Continue reading →

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