Category Archives: love poems

Wistful Astronomer

Posted on October 16, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

Wistful Astronomer Still the wistful schoolboy aspiring to become her astronomer. Through the long scope of imagining eyes, I thought to kiss her lips, perhaps to strike a spire of light upon her celestial diffidence. With my transit and theodolite, … Continue reading →

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The Bell Tower of Friendship

Posted on October 15, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

It is when your attention is elsewhere, that you are beckoned back to your roots. You are never apart from this love. Your heart is not inside of you. It is elsewhere, and you are within it. So, where is … Continue reading →

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Lion and Rabbit

Posted on October 13, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

I coo with subtle caress imbued in our words Aloft, then settling in the currents of my heart Like the gentle lion soothing his burnt paw kneading in the cool softness of a rabbit’s fur; His pain pressed tenderly against … Continue reading →

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Having Tea in the Fall

Posted on October 12, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

Hearing is different when coolness fills the transporting canals of the ears. I rolled the rubbish bin to the curb, its wheels sounding different before the impending Autumn swallows us up. No longer are we melting to the ground. I … Continue reading →

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the word series

Posted on September 10, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

1. Words are the rusted iron locks on the chest of meaning within the chest is the hidden key to them all Silence is the locksmith. (#25wtT) 2. A swelling tongue guides his breath past parted lips soft words adrift … Continue reading →

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Still Nothing to Say

Posted on August 27, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

Every dereliction of duty Each hesitation One moment of indecision in a shifting wind, finds me swaying in your mirror again, I pause and then… Every button that slips silently Into its hole reminds me of this quiet kismet, game … Continue reading →

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Wild Inside

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

Languid lips, creased in soft repose sealing secrets there enclosed that only a kiss reveals. Blooms ponceau, One might imagine worlds beyond where the corners curl of a mouth that’s closed and wild inside. tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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Centerpiece of Meaning

Posted on July 29, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

What is knowledge if it is not shining down upon her face Who is to know, who is to know To the canvas from which color leaps she is the gesso, I imagine it so I imagine it so What … Continue reading →

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We Danced in Circles

Posted on July 1, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

Prelude from that volcano Red hot words flew up from the caldera and with applause fell in confetti flakes of ash. Drifting through the metal haze, softening down in dirty velvet waves of sheets to become pressed and rubbed and … Continue reading →

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In the Scorch of Love

Posted on June 19, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

Looking into the lens of his eyes she pleas, “Where did my poet go? When did our paths part?” Her questions echo in emptiness, for the poems had drained from her spacious heart. He left her in the storm of … Continue reading →

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