Category Archives: love poems

Poison on the Arrows Point

Posted on September 3, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

  The only truth is the one that I choose, and choose, and choose. What then of these arrows dipped in the elixir of delusion, sent forth by the bow of truth? Love may go awry, but the archer always makes his mark. We’ll sooner die from bleeding than from the poison … Continue reading →

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God In, God Through

Posted on July 16, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

God “in” the other is really God “through” the other. inhale of a beloveds kiss fans the flames of higher awareness… Sensual journey toward a divine arrival. God is everywhere and everywhere, and where there is not a “where.” So … Continue reading →

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A gift in an open hand

Posted on July 16, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

So compelled. So easy to close one’s hand on so fine a feather. A few have sailed in the pendulous descent, to land gently where I stood. Loosened by both bird taken flight and a bird landed. Oh, these signs … Continue reading →

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Alchemicalamity

Posted on July 16, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

All the earth elements in repose something to breath in dreams of those You must sleep so well being who you are, whenever you do sleep. with no fear of hell… Words leap to their tragic death off the end … Continue reading →

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Your Cat is Dead – Post Mortem

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

We reduce love to the sexy acts we do within it.  We clench the carnal, like a drowning man clenches a block of granite and would hope to float.  All our sojourner  has is his sock in his hand – … Continue reading →

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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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Kun Fa’yakun

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

This love is going to kill me, Each remembered kiss a slice to my heart, drawing rivers of words, to exsanguinate on pages upon pages of never-ending, ending. Love bleeds like a sorrowful spring and yet I keep defending, defending. … 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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A kiss that toppled the world

Posted on April 5, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Out in the surly seas, a tidal wave toppled out of the sky conjured by the secret teamwork of moon and sun, from a once a gentle ripple, And that, stirred by a wondering kiss that broke the benign surface … Continue reading →

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Seeking Love

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

Seeking love is chasing the setting sun around the earth pleading for it to rise again Be still, it will come orbit yourself you will become the east and the west then love becomes your axis. tis nothing if not … Continue reading →

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