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The Key within a Key

Posted on July 6, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

We said we’d wake before the sun How many times had we done this before …woken to silence, with no words to speak no other beside us to hear our plaintiff notes, fears, and wishes. None but those that were … Continue reading →

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Love is a Steady Wind

Posted on June 28, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Love is a steady wind that erases what we know of it as soon as we try to grasp. It is pre-eternal wisdom, named by God, whispered only in the heart. A feather softly landed. Let it lie. Ti’s an … Continue reading →

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What They Say

Posted on June 27, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

It’s not always what we say with these lips… tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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I am just one wave

Posted on June 20, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

I am just one wave in the ocean that tumbles and fades on your shores my true love is the tide that retrieves me and bades me, “return, come again, try again.” tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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What is truth

Posted on June 19, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

What is truth,but a silent look of acknowledgement, between a source that knows its destinationand a destination that knows its source. Oceans and rivers call to one anotherOne awaiting completion, the other fulfillment. The reed flute and the reed bedExchange … Continue reading →

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Parched Earth, Quenched Heart

Posted on June 19, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Beautiful mosaic Of a fragmented heart Made of clay and And broke apart. Parched by drought What more brings rain to remembrance of the Beloved’s name. It is in my silence that You hear how my burning thirst mouths a … Continue reading →

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Human Gems

Posted on June 19, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

  “I hadn’t told them about you, but they saw you bathing in my eyes. I hadn’t told them about you, but they saw you in my written words. The perfume of love cannot be concealed.” ~ Nizar Qabbani “the … Continue reading →

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Tear Streams in Renditional Evolution

Posted on June 19, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Poetic rendition 3: This moment, our eyes fill with tears from a voice, a song once filled our ears could quench an aching world, today, back then if we’d just all fall in love….again. O’ gather up those endured sorrows my … Continue reading →

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What is Not Reveals What Is

Posted on June 17, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Who we are not, weathers through timebe it by water, wind, will or wine.Gazing into the talus of our becomingAmidst the course, drifts the fine.Our purpose is to bear the breezeWith lips to cup, till weakened kneesBesotted within a life betweenPre-eternal, … Continue reading →

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Life as we [don’t] know it

Posted on June 17, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Oh, Beloved, since finding me, you have ruined my life and enlivened my death. What more can one offer in gratitude and remembrance. This duality confounds me. You are not my opposite, Nor I yours. The closest I can come … Continue reading →

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