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Introspection: Tetrabiblos (short version)

Posted on February 9, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Introspection and a curious awareness of surroundings make for endless fields from which to amass self-inspired knowledge. This awareness does not manifest in words; no, these are only learned approximations of our inner experience (qualia) of the universe. We are … Continue reading →

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No Small Year (2013)

Posted on February 9, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

No small year, he thought. People left the earth by violence, sickness, self neglect; friends of the heart were found, love reborn, spirit awoken. Confused by bitterness, blessed with forgiveness… he struggled as some turned their backs on him, while … Continue reading →

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My Highway’s Washed Away

Posted on January 31, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiGXnI7CM1k This song by DCD swelled this poem up within me – Prologue: sitting at my desk, Criss-cross applesauce gasping like a dying child. Dying to flee the corpse of a man. I, not a child anymore, Who’s imagination is … Continue reading →

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Two Arrivers Meet

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

“Though slowly and with pain, the objects of the affections change, as the objects of thought do. There are moments when the affections rule and absorb the man, and make his happiness dependent on a person or persons. But in … Continue reading →

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Inspired by those inspired by those inspired

Posted on December 20, 2013 by skipavm@gmail.com

A broken heart is in want of that one healing treasure, like a frenzied moth to die in the candle flame. There is a painful longing in both – heart and moth – for the same return. Let us tread … Continue reading →

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The Baobab

Posted on November 27, 2013 by skipavm@gmail.com

All are in repose. as a reddening sun sinks melodiously drowning into a molten horizon. My heart gasps in harmony, “Take me with you” before our time is gone, I’ve not the strength to wait till dawn Long and low … Continue reading →

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A Hundred Ways

Posted on November 27, 2013 by skipavm@gmail.com

A hundred ways to remember the nameless, stand between the seeker and that One never to forget. Ninety-nine abandoned attributes linger in the faint attar of imbued nostalgia, wrenched in the twist of the implacable iron wood. The variegated visage … Continue reading →

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worthy to love

Posted on July 31, 2013 by skipavm@gmail.com

When you know yourself – I mean truly know the bone and sinew holding you upright in the mirror. From felted creases along folded chits of memory to the dogeared pages of emotional reminders – when your margins are filled … Continue reading →

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Chanced to Meet a Ghost Writer

Posted on July 31, 2013 by skipavm@gmail.com

I chanced to meet a ghost writer at my door, her transportation failed just down the road A sojourning doppelgänger of sorts …an elusive reflection who in need of a tow. Transmuting words to wine, We both sip time to … Continue reading →

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Overland: Fight the Poet, Love the Master

Posted on April 23, 2013 by skipavm@gmail.com

Morning brings a clearer visionas the sun makes its assentAnd dwells in the blueBefore it’s journey overland.Under one God,Our small animationsapproximate gesturesof lives arrangedby a benevolent hand.How gentle their hearts beatthat resound overland.Charged with the blessingFor every last man.That rage … Continue reading →

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