Category Archives: Poems Beyond Their Words

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

The Teacher

Posted on March 5, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

He has a voice within a voice, and I, an ear within an ear. When he says nothing I listen most deeply. Otherwise, since we met, I have learned that I know nothing. When around him, my mind is always … Continue reading →

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She And He Are Just One In The Forest

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

Above the earth she seeks in dendritic patterns Mirrored by his deepest caverns One dies in the light of colored rays While the one below lives on what’s decayed Forever they travel opposing directions Yet, each thrives with mutual intercession. … Continue reading →

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Peasants In The Castle Of Being

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

Hungering, goes The hunter green vine Winding up walls Of a cinder block throat. Swollen thoughts Coursing from The belly of memory, Splits rock In the pulsing edifice Erected around Men endowed With bones of metal Crumbling flesh Broken Hearts … Continue reading →

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A Heart Filled With Emptiness

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

Everything enters the mind through the hidden passages of the heart. On this journey of beauty, wade not in through details, but whirl in wonder. You complain of an empty heart, yet drown in the rising tide of its echoes. … Continue reading →

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Real Love In A Series of Affirmations

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

Real love is the endlessness of a mirror’s own reflection in another Real love binds the sheep, the wolf and the shepherd together in compassion Real love is an impenetrable wall of wisdom between you and what you only think … Continue reading →

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A Jot of Clay

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

Through the torpor from some unseen cloud, a bead of rain slipped past my lips and down my throat. Sensing my thirst, this sojourner arrives from some other place, some other time. Love for this one bead I sip, and … Continue reading →

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In Time, In Time

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

  My young daughter and I are not much different; Little less of this, a little more of that. She wonders about God’s existence at all; While I weep for His closeness. We stumble through our words as One asks … Continue reading →

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Feathers

Posted on January 24, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

Faith is a feather on a sandy beach Jarred from its station by the slightest breeze. And love is a feather placed on your forehead Lost in the whisper by what a sage might say. Time is a feather dropped in … Continue reading →

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Lost in a Poem

Posted on January 20, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

I chose a black parchment and left my poem in light gray letters. The words were underwhelming, but the darkness overtook you. Years later I re-read cautiously in low light; you’re somewhere on these pages.   tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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Composition in Completion

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

I was once the music of my era So melodic and lyrically astute and I painted myself into the foreground of a song and became both composer and instrument. I’ve become the narrator of my own drama, the protagonist, villain, … Continue reading →

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