Category Archives: Poems Beyond Their Words

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

The Mixing of Colors

Posted on April 5, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

The heart recognizes what the soul’s known forever. And on we go, linking our past to our future, interweaving the fabric of lives together. There is a storm outside. There is a storm inside… the one without has taken over, … Continue reading →

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Writing about God

Posted on March 26, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

“Write about God and this love,” She requests but of what do I write? I softly protest. What is the color of Her absence? what is the scent of His breathlessness. She is the weight of the path pressed into … Continue reading →

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Misshapen

Posted on February 18, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

You are there at the end of my misshapen words, syrup drizzled fatigue and pliant, I’m draped over well shaped thoughts, made of frozen tears from angels crying. Only a pen to unbury your secrets I’ve dug many holes across … Continue reading →

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When in Silence, Comes

Posted on February 18, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

When in silence, comes she whose heartbeat scatters stars for his ghosts to follow flicker out lost loves fall away, this susurrus to humble ears, hear not promises made of fairy dust. One is kept away from you, one comes … Continue reading →

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Awaiting this

Posted on February 18, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

Wave the hand of consciousness to reveal what lies beneath the mist of thinking. That realm of obscurity, where faith is a wick; knowledge, its wax; and the Beloved, the igniting breath. We read the words and seek their meaning, … Continue reading →

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Show Me Your Face

Posted on February 10, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

Of all the eyes I’ve gazed into, each pair was a lens that converged the same single light from so far within them; In my squinting quest, they must have thought me mad. But is was only in Your eyes … Continue reading →

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The Absence

Posted on February 5, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

Part I – The Absence In the silent strike of her haunting hours she slowly stirs, wakes, and sways from a drunken fog to awoken dreaming He beckons across a midnight lake and says, “Come beloved, wash the confusion from … Continue reading →

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The Aperture

Posted on February 5, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

I’ve surveyed the heavens for immeasurable treasure well beyond reaches of mankind’s endeavors. The quest is tricked by our limited views of mysteries disguised as discovery’s clues. We artists create what we seek to reveal as our hearts alchemically turn … Continue reading →

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Keystone

Posted on January 31, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

Thou art the Keystone in love’s majestic archway Ne’er having to duck my head, here unafraid I walk through You, I walk beneath You, whilst to my own wayfaring heart I bow and pray. Before Your door standing, all senses … Continue reading →

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Of All You Behold

Posted on January 14, 2017 by skipavm@gmail.com

  You are the portrait of all you behold, each vista a hue in a story told Of those you’ve loved despite possible loss for every true artist finds gold in the dross. You are the symphony of the sounds … Continue reading →

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