Category Archives: love poems

Where Love Lives

Posted on March 18, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Love is such a nostalgic condition, a candle in a familiar window I suppose… filled with this, passion and angst to be home in safe and familiar currents.  Love, a condition where we find peace in the blurring of what … Continue reading →

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The Sentinel

Posted on March 1, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

To be a sentinel in the darkest silence of your presence. Soft release, a mist of hope inward drawn as essence. So the breaths of lovers curl in moonlight cast aglow, Melodic dreams to blend and purl, a sweet diminuendo. … Continue reading →

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Ode to the Conquerer of Great Distance and Time

Posted on February 16, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Prelude:  As We Arrive Your love found me, as if two suns rose from the east and west at the same time.  Where their rays met would be indistinguishable, and why even understand it. What we feel in touch is … Continue reading →

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Breakfast with a Writer

Posted on January 18, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Softly I’ll landwherever you land,slide over the lee of your wakeI’ll drift on your breathand fly on stirred windsto wherever your wings will take I’ll break my fastwith steel cut oatsand sip the steam of splendid teaand dip my breadin … Continue reading →

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Grey Goodbyes

Posted on January 7, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Morning stirs – a dull grey mist, clouding memories of your tender kiss And where the angels once gamboled upon my heart Now there’s just lonely wreckage as the storm departs I remember when – we laughed in sighs And … Continue reading →

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Bathing Angels

Posted on January 6, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Were the angels here to gambol upon your heart And laugh like sighs beneath seaside skies Where stars blink on, as I close my eyes And waves curl over, and a heron flies Where a crimson coast goes dark. Were … Continue reading →

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Quips for the Quipish

Posted on January 6, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

1.  It seems I am only misunderstood for trying to have people understand me for something I am not.  Why is something so easy to understand, then so difficult. 2.  You’ll never please everyone being yourself, least of all yourself … Continue reading →

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Were You Here, Say I

Posted on December 22, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

The swells now slowly softenAs they went wading into dusk“I think the tides are shifting”And we are here,…and that’s enough. “I thought we’d lost each otherIn the throes of hearts let loose,”headlong into destinyUnfurling ribbons from the seas…words curled on … Continue reading →

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The Gardens of Siam

Posted on December 9, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

Whiskers stir on dandelion stemsWhile dawn departs on fragrant winds.“We see the sun, his shadow’s falling,”from the treetops, cried the waling-waling. Wink awake oh dreaming roseBrush your trestles from the briers Till the soils of your tacticsAnd climb the trellis … Continue reading →

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Passion

Posted on December 8, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

I believe that while such embers of the spirit might glow with nothing more than the breath of a sweetly whispered word, they ignite with the song in the melodic voice heard by many. Those of true passion outpace consequence… … Continue reading →

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