Category Archives: Poems Beyond Their Words

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

Love does not rule lovers from a throne

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

Love does not rule lovers from a throne. It is far more humble, the sapling within the trunk. Even the apple at the top of the tree knows better. Its leaves wake and quiver and turn toward the morning light. The … Continue reading →

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Diminutive

Posted on January 3, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

I laid down on the sand, humbling myself before this majesty and felt diminutive in the foreground of such immense love shared between the Sun and Moon. The ocean tides ebbed and flowed, and mountains blew down, forests were razed, glaciers … Continue reading →

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Labyrinth of Mirrors

Posted on January 2, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

My love is a besotted moth flying deliriously in a labyrinth of mirrored passages; my Beloved is the glowing lantern hidden within its center. I am a vessel of senses and impulse; Whenever I run with my love to Her flame, I find … Continue reading →

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The Known and the Knowing

Posted on December 31, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

I have spent a lifetime trusting men I’ve never personally come to know particularly well on this earthly plane and dimension, and they have never let me down. Rather, it is those I think I know all too well that … Continue reading →

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Love’s Earthly Tracing

Posted on December 27, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

My heart is a winding painted canyon, carved by my beloved. I followed her echo out to the ocean And below her surface I dove. I emptied myself into her depths, beneath the currents of unspoken worlds and breathless I … Continue reading →

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al-Arabi Ponders Mevlana (Rumi)

Posted on December 18, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Is there Art before the painting Is there Beauty before the face Is there Fear before the rattling saber …Pain before the thorn. Will you Die before you die Can you know the Essence before it’s manifest Will you Be … Continue reading →

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Words Leave a Trail

Posted on December 12, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Words leave a trail laid by the vain wandering of a mind tormented by an unheard heart. Sure and silent signs that can never be followed back to where their meaning starts. Pure light hurtles through the cosmos Seeking certain intersections, That … Continue reading →

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We are all in Infinite Do Loops

Posted on November 9, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

in 1986, I was 23.  On November 9, 2015, this arrived by mail; sent by a dear old friend.  Now, mind you, I knew nothing of Sufism then and only recently began to meditate on Ibn Al’Arabi. So I am … Continue reading →

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Aranyhid

Posted on November 9, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

All of humanity is a scintillating ocean; a never ending twinkling of sunlight, without which there is neither darkness, nor light. Each ray sent is a soul dispatched, each ripple is a life awaiting, each quick sparkling on the corrugated … Continue reading →

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Essay on the Oneness of Being

Posted on November 3, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

A mystic seeks to sense what he knows is beyond the capabilities of his own instrumentation. He knows the search is an abandonment of all he knows…and perhaps all he knew that he sought to refine. It is surrender, submission … Continue reading →

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