Category Archives: love poems

The Romance of Artist and Muse

Posted on October 18, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

She is a tress of hair out of place, combed in slow sweeps from my forehead. I thought her an enigma to perchance unravel by the press of well-paired lips or by a mind besotted with moon glow and Grenache … Continue reading →

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My Magnificent Morning Malaise

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

I pour the wine, while you raise your cup until our bodies have had enough, that our spirit’s twist, wrung out dry, sexed and sated; shyly truth seeps outside of careless vessels, free once more – unable to collide, despite … Continue reading →

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Earth Bound Elements in Repose

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

Of earthbound lovers in repose darkness awakens dreams for those who in their arrogance sleep so well with their sinuous curves that writhe in hell fleeting words leap to a tragic death off the end of a sentence’ precipice spoken by guardians of empty spaces … Continue reading →

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Two is One and One

Posted on September 30, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

The only truth is the one I choose… and choose… and choose, then what of these arrows dipped in an elixir of delusion, and illusion. Yes, a shaft may go awry, but the Archer always makes His mark in the … Continue reading →

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Love’s Fool and Fortunate One

Posted on September 29, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

He was love’s fool A drop of rain In a downpour of seasonal shame A farthing in the fountain Spent on wishes Glistening in the fenlands Of unreplenished riches A plea, among the rustling In a vast forest of variegated … Continue reading →

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Why It Is (SkyBlueAndBlack / Phosphorimental)

Posted on September 29, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

I asked my mind why it is you I’ve come to love? A hundred reasons given me and still was not enough So I asked why it is I fell in love with you, Knowing there’s a difference between these … Continue reading →

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We lie at night

Posted on September 24, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

I dream She lies with her eyes open flying fish leaping between two placid oceans catching moonlight with their silver scales I wake She lies awake, not seeing that I watch her talk to God I can tell from her fathomless gaze … Continue reading →

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Love Ballad of My Generation

Posted on September 14, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Those days recall less colors and even less sense With longer hair like Jackson Browne, Pensively reeling in half rhymed ballads walkin’ like Dylan and shredding our voices like Springsteen. “walkin’ real loud…” When poets sang and singers Listened, from … Continue reading →

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Unseen Heart

Posted on September 4, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

“You are sacred to Me,” speaks a steep disembodied voice, lifted by the lowly, rescued by the reed, quenched by the eagle. She has been delivered to the underworld from sliding scree, into silence from the long sigh of a … Continue reading →

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Tend to the Lantern in Your Heart

Posted on September 4, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

I recently read an article which states that there is no “one” person who will fulfill us and that many couples initiate a union with a foundation based on each being “on their best behavior,” implying that over time blemishes tarnish bliss. … Continue reading →

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