Category Archives: Poems Beyond Their Words

contains poetry inclined toward mysticism, gnosticism, Irfan, Tasawwuf, Sufism

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

Words of wishes have earthly limits Heaven’s silent melody hath no harmony on earth but prayer Carriages of flesh secretly conveyed passengers By God’s disclosure Open this parcel one last time One last gasp before I expel disclosure like smoke against … 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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Who orbits whom

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

A channel cannot possess the water that flows within it… their relationship is both a river still and a river wild. To possess even our own secret would be to violate the sanctity of the hearts wilderness, yet we pirouette … 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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Love is a Steady Wind

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

Love is a steady wind that erases what we know of it as soon as we try to grasp. It is pre-eternal wisdom, named by God, whispered only in the heart. A feather softly landed. Let it lie. Ti’s an … Continue reading →

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What is truth

Posted on June 19, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

What is truth,but a silent look of acknowledgement, between a source that knows its destinationand a destination that knows its source. Oceans and rivers call to one anotherOne awaiting completion, the other fulfillment. The reed flute and the reed bedExchange … Continue reading →

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Parched Earth, Quenched Heart

Posted on June 19, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Beautiful mosaic Of a fragmented heart Made of clay and And broke apart. Parched by drought What more brings rain to remembrance of the Beloved’s name. It is in my silence that You hear how my burning thirst mouths a … Continue reading →

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Human Gems

Posted on June 19, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

  “I hadn’t told them about you, but they saw you bathing in my eyes. I hadn’t told them about you, but they saw you in my written words. The perfume of love cannot be concealed.” ~ Nizar Qabbani “the … Continue reading →

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What is Not Reveals What Is

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

Who we are not, weathers through timebe it by water, wind, will or wine.Gazing into the talus of our becomingAmidst the course, drifts the fine.Our purpose is to bear the breezeWith lips to cup, till weakened kneesBesotted within a life betweenPre-eternal, … Continue reading →

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