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Long Sweet Solitude

Posted on December 24, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

O’ long sweet solitude beside You and if not with You, then surrounding the thought of, If not the thought, then within the vast lingering emptiness that only Your limitless essence could leave. I melt and pour myself into Your … Continue reading →

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Shebi-Arus: Rumi’s Wedding Night (Khamosh)

Posted on December 18, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

Khamush (Silence) (Jelal-a-din Rumi) “Carry your baggage toward silence: when you seek the signs of the Way, don’t make yourself the focus of attention. The Prophet said, “Know that amid the sea of cares my Companions are like guiding stars.” … Continue reading →

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Mysterious Depths

Posted on December 14, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

There are page-empty days that I do not wish to draw you, in charcoal or yellow or write of you, or kiss you, or make love to you; or to sing beside you about lost treasure, or to hear you, … Continue reading →

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Waiting for the Spider to Return

Posted on December 14, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

Planet earth is a garden forest skyline. I stick my face in its bosom often. It is a sea of foaming white caps, and a buzzing hive of fuzzy bodied bees; a pile of empty paint cans and half buried … Continue reading →

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A lion will never eat me because it hates me

Posted on November 24, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

I wonder what else have we bred out of the domestic house cat over all these centuries? I look at my cat Tiger and see the ancestry of vicious animals, vicious not out of malice, but nature. We sifted this from … Continue reading →

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-ness

Posted on November 24, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

Sometimes we are only organisms among organisms – we respond through both willful and involuntary action to primal instincts and desires, triggered by external causes. We covet and protect and hunt and gather. Other times, we are more complex than … Continue reading →

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I Came to Draw You

Posted on November 24, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

trim-7a789ed5-d6b3-4427-9377-50668f2e562d I came to draw You, and with my own eyes, You painted all the cosmos between us, and then You opened my eyes, and with the illusion of vision, I imagined myself, imagining You. You, Who we cannot see, … Continue reading →

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The Words I Hold Silent

Posted on November 17, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

Fleeting failures along Escher’s steps. Tender steps of whispered hope Ascending toward a timeless state Returning home, returning home, Where the awaited wait. God has blessed the words I hold silent Those whose truth is betrayed by a breath Those … Continue reading →

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Heart Holds Vigil

Posted on November 17, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

My heart holds vigil While the pen’s away As the mind settles Along the edge of day At my horizon’s melting there, Your stars appear where I’ve gone dark With nothing to say, Aye, my heart holds vigil With its … Continue reading →

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The Edge

Posted on November 17, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

There is love at the edge and on either steep side below the scintillating surface and ocean’s lost depths and boundless sky. I am the ocean’s thin edge step thee nearer to me step far into this sea foam you … Continue reading →

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