Category Archives: Poems Beyond Their Words

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

All We’ve Lost

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

Spin about a thread-fine axis, collapse to a point, disappear into the universe through the portal of an infinitely small door. Do this when you desire and return to the plane of earthly existence… All you’ve loved, within all that … Continue reading →

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Birds of a Song

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

    Rain paths brush clear a sky to stark beautiful disclosure I listen to her notes of doubt, softly Singing through the azure With doves ear, low, I listen on for another who perchance is a muse, perched atop a pendulous pen Swaying … Continue reading →

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Seamless with Light

Posted on April 16, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Only beauty grows from this visceral ache, like a seed pushing up through the earth of your chest When a heart takes root into the abyss of the self, then Multihued flowers can lift high in the welkin The pain … Continue reading →

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Morning of the Madrugada

Posted on April 11, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

While I press my palm to hers, I want to complete the world our fingers folding into the fabric of skin Aching to taste the tongue of my lover To wash away the flavor of mango, So that I’ll never seek … Continue reading →

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Words are Rolling Stones

Posted on April 11, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Words are rolling stones that clatter in the stream of time. Any of we, parched or quenched, sip at the waters edge and listen to them purling and purling, sublime till their edges rounded by translation turn rock to sand, like grape to wine. Precise … Continue reading →

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Parindey

Posted on April 11, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Only a wind whines Here in my heart Where ghosts once sojourned They’ve all departed Since you arrived Since you stepped through These eyes are doors To wider shores, So green, once blue Now brown as yours. Sometimes a strangers … Continue reading →

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Sated Reflections

Posted on February 23, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Let’s not run from reflections Whether they be of you, or me Whether by light or mirror glow By whom its shown or who it shows Be it my darkness or flattery. To recite what is in one’s true heart … Continue reading →

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The Waiting Rings of Time

Posted on February 14, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

Waiting in my memory Its gentle waves are calling me For I was cut from eroding shore To oceans edge for evermore Never a sight had crossed my eyes So vast a nexus, land and sky and sea. Transfixed so … Continue reading →

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The Pebble of Niyat (Intention)

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

Inspiration is everywhere Like sand from the beach flying off your heals still you’ve no idea where a single grain is; It is not around you, but within, Where there is not a where. So then where are you running my friend? Your niyat … Continue reading →

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Poverty and Pride

Posted on January 26, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

“Faqr Fakhri” The poverty of the heart, empathizes with the lonely, the downtrodden. For it shares what little it has, and the less it has, the more valuable what it gives becomes. I’ve only one thing, there is no other, so who … Continue reading →

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