Category Archives: Poems Beyond Their Words

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

Where the Beloved Resides

Posted on May 7, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

How revealing to find ourselves in the abyss,  searching the seven continents for answers,  when all along we are amidst God’s shoreless ocean,  surrounded by love. We run from the truth  because we cannot bear the pain of a silent … Continue reading →

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River Captain

Posted on May 2, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

I’d no real idea what I was looking at  it seems a sublime visage foretells the future,  marks the past,  more than it reveals the present moment.  Upstream and downstream share the same unseen – source and destination both obscured … Continue reading →

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Opposites share the same space

Posted on May 2, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

The smallest point, is infinitely small,unlimited in this respect;which is more than we can say for the planets…which are limited in size “Nothing” is the disclosure of “Everything,”in a perpetually diminishing state. So long as we recede into Nothingness,Everything has … Continue reading →

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Unfree Poem

Posted on May 1, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

A poem is a bird in a gilded cage a pining soul on a weeping page. Open the door but still it stays Close the door and it flies away. tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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Written

Posted on May 1, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

The Beloved enters like a mist When in stillness Lays a kiss Disarms my words eludes my eyes No empty pages the ink run dry Hours gaze from a clock with no face free from the hands of time and space Pulsing … Continue reading →

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On Wisdom

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

When the mind speaks, wisdom puts a finger to its lips, “Hush.” That I fail to find order in my life is evidence that I am seeking the means with my mind rather than the ends with my heart. So, … Continue reading →

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In-between-ities

Posted on April 26, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

There are immeasurably small instants in an immeasurable eternity.These “in-between-ities” are where we neither regret the moments “once-now-gone”nor those “longed-for-to-happen.” It is the gracefulness of presence when present.There at the node of a lamniscate,a unity so beyond you and I,that … Continue reading →

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Coffee Shop Selfie

Posted on April 26, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Anyone can stage a prolific book, a computer, salt and pepper butterscotch cookie, and a steaming cup of cappuccino – heart swirls and all. Photoshop it to misty tears. But really – what’s going on in this picture? Nothing. Nothing … Continue reading →

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Why signs

Posted on April 26, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Why look for signs? Why even expend an atoms effort to find them… for we worry a mountain if we don’t and doubt when we do. Nay, everything is everything; and I have faith in the signs I don’t see. … Continue reading →

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Death and LIfe share the same door

Posted on April 26, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Whether abandoned by time or will,  the rose will endure its falling petals,  which reunite with the soil, from which it grows again.   Were I not to die,  of what use, this life. tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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