Category Archives: Poems Beyond Their Words

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

The Passenger

Posted on August 21, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Was it frightening when I went away? I miss you, when I used to know you. “I suppose. Were your journeys difficult? Because I’m still here…climbing, and I miss you too.” I would often scan the signalling stars and wish … Continue reading →

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Darkness Longs for Its Shadow

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

I find myself in darkness now…and it’s here I wish to linger. Darkness, an old friend who listens to my enlightening stories with a sardonic grin and small dagger that he slowly but deftly twirls in his fingers. He knows … Continue reading →

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In an Instant

Posted on July 20, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Merciful pain reveals to you that the ghosts of those you love are real, and those departed you thought were real, …never were. Do not unhand your own self-awareness to take the hand of a divinely bestowed beloved For God takes … Continue reading →

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Everything is Becoming

Posted on June 5, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

We are left in the once lost values of solitude and aloneness, that we might see both the multitudes and Singularity in a single glance of paradoxical beauty. Gibran says, “Sadness is a wall between two gardens…” Perhaps it is one wall, in one … Continue reading →

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The Phoenix

Posted on June 5, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

I remember being so madly in love. I look into the images of the past and I realize that we can never go back. Loving someone so deeply – dislodges and slips away into heaven by the divine inhale. We turn … Continue reading →

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Protected: Please Listen My Erudite Heart

Posted on June 5, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

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Entered a Dervish

Posted on June 5, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Her hearts smoke rose from doused flames of love wisps entwined with her obsidian tresses interwoven with gray and a long journey’s dust From the door she entered, went A whirling dervish whose time was spent Amidst a rose whose petals … Continue reading →

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Where my Beloved Waits

Posted on June 5, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Oh you pavement scuffers, ceiling crawlers Why not walls of wheat and woodland? Jump the railcar wayfarers… What of floors of flower and dirt. You’re plodding through the pate When you should be dancing through dharma, reveling from the root. … Continue reading →

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Abandon Everything

Posted on May 28, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

My angels, dark and light, come out by dawn or dusk, under cover of night. Carrying torches when the body’s cold, palm leaves for shade In the hearts abode not a brick is laid… to reinforce high walls where I’ve … Continue reading →

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The Road

Posted on May 2, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Do not love a love so readily given, let it love you and abrade; to sink lightly to its caress. Love is not the road you’re on rather, you are the road, under its steps. I am a bridge you … Continue reading →

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