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Teaspoons of Light

Posted on May 13, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

I take in teaspoons of light to feed the darkness… and it still growls with hunger. Nothing craves light more than a shadow with a secret it wants to show. tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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A Lions Dream

Posted on May 13, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

What gives the lion his strength, is the softness of his Dreams. tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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Driftwood in Your Ocean

Posted on May 12, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

When I am silent,I am down in my imagination.I am swimming,seeing the surface of your eyes,the sea beneath them,the currents…upwelling. Never mistake my silence for absence.I am driftwood in your ocean,you flow above and below. I seek your presence in … Continue reading →

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The Albatross

Posted on May 12, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

This is the albatross… Our imaginations are like this; abnormally large wing spans, resting infrequently if at all for many trips around the earth, sleeping in flight, heart only racing when it lands… monogamous, faithful to it’s own solitude and … Continue reading →

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Why it rains

Posted on May 7, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

My love expels from the aquifer of my being,in synchrony with a mountain top weathering. Rock erodes into dust, coloring the sky red and rust. Water gathers about the grainupon everything it rains. Earth quenched by wineArouses the timeless out … Continue reading →

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Fashioner of Wind

Posted on May 7, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Layla is the faint attar at dawn quiet, sinuously flowing slowly in the morning She stirs the fashioner of winds Majnun is the feather Whenever his beloved gets too close, upon her wings, he flies off and away again. tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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The Pain of the Thorn

Posted on May 7, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

the pain of the thorn is where the rose gets it color from where fragrance manifests its message tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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Halcyon

Posted on May 7, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

We occupy different parts of the earth but we share the same sky look up everything is up there boundless cloud pastures of the imagination roam in halcyon tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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The Eyes

Posted on May 7, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

I am always amazed at how far your eyes can seeIt’s not the conquest of visionit is a surrender to the unseeable. tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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Where the Beloved Resides

Posted on May 7, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

How revealing to find ourselves in the abyss,  searching the seven continents for answers,  when all along we are amidst God’s shoreless ocean,  surrounded by love. We run from the truth  because we cannot bear the pain of a silent … Continue reading →

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