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River Captain

Posted on May 2, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

I’d no real idea what I was looking at  it seems a sublime visage foretells the future,  marks the past,  more than it reveals the present moment.  Upstream and downstream share the same unseen – source and destination both obscured … Continue reading →

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Opposites share the same space

Posted on May 2, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

The smallest point, is infinitely small,unlimited in this respect;which is more than we can say for the planets…which are limited in size “Nothing” is the disclosure of “Everything,”in a perpetually diminishing state. So long as we recede into Nothingness,Everything has … Continue reading →

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Unfree Poem

Posted on May 1, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

A poem is a bird in a gilded cage a pining soul on a weeping page. Open the door but still it stays Close the door and it flies away. tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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The mountain on your chest

Posted on May 1, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Our messages, all of them past and present, but an ensemble of One beckoning source. It is true, how wind – the pen, and water – the scroll, will lay a volatile couplet, a brief fragrance, a ripple, a wave … Continue reading →

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Written

Posted on May 1, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

The Beloved enters like a mist When in stillness Lays a kiss Disarms my words eludes my eyes No empty pages the ink run dry Hours gaze from a clock with no face free from the hands of time and space Pulsing … Continue reading →

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On Wisdom

Posted on April 29, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

When the mind speaks, wisdom puts a finger to its lips, “Hush.” That I fail to find order in my life is evidence that I am seeking the means with my mind rather than the ends with my heart. So, … Continue reading →

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In-between-ities

Posted on April 26, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

There are immeasurably small instants in an immeasurable eternity.These “in-between-ities” are where we neither regret the moments “once-now-gone”nor those “longed-for-to-happen.” It is the gracefulness of presence when present.There at the node of a lamniscate,a unity so beyond you and I,that … Continue reading →

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Coffee Shop Selfie

Posted on April 26, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Anyone can stage a prolific book, a computer, salt and pepper butterscotch cookie, and a steaming cup of cappuccino – heart swirls and all. Photoshop it to misty tears. But really – what’s going on in this picture? Nothing. Nothing … Continue reading →

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Why signs

Posted on April 26, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Why look for signs? Why even expend an atoms effort to find them… for we worry a mountain if we don’t and doubt when we do. Nay, everything is everything; and I have faith in the signs I don’t see. … Continue reading →

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Death and LIfe share the same door

Posted on April 26, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Whether abandoned by time or will,  the rose will endure its falling petals,  which reunite with the soil, from which it grows again.   Were I not to die,  of what use, this life. tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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