Category Archives: poetry

The Writing Hand is Raised a Slave

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

“Such tiny hands,” he said shoving elephantine thoughts Into them wielding such power – knife clutching, caressing, pen. He took his eyes off the screen for a moment, to watch them go. He pondered, “Long is the journey along nerves … Continue reading →

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Heart becomes the sun

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

Heart becomes a blood dense sun Consuming all of anyone come to take a seat beside or to sacrifice their burdens. Goes the ghosts into the pyre soften, silent from the ire consuming even their own ashes magnesium memories in … Continue reading →

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Smithereens

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

Love’s mystery unraveling is a star burning out… Naught but a flame without its coal; a constellation sans axis to circle about. When its meaning exceeds the object of dreams, Let it go, let it go to be loved to … Continue reading →

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#TAG Poetry: Hello Poetry’s Top Ten #Tags 5/10/14 (converted to poetry)

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

#love takes a #life, but be not #sad for, #pain gives #depression respite, but more that #death, gives life #poetry, so that in times of trouble it’s #you I see, as a #heart in a lighthouse for a #poem lost … Continue reading →

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Poems that will get me killed (2015, Issue 1)

Posted on December 29, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

I wrote to her sacrilege Toasted haram She, an idol among dregs I, a totem in her palm Love lifts on rose scent leaving petals to quiver all between us once, rent, only kindling to give her Hence, I turn to death which best knows life and set fire to my nest … Continue reading →

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Pulsing Inkwell

Posted on December 29, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Love’s letters clatter in currents Winds curl to stillness, in a talus of potpourri, Season totem, a cluster of hope, waiting For one match pulled and struck, To scare the ghosts from the pyre. In a choke of smoke from … Continue reading →

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Humble in Our Sound

Posted on December 22, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Humans should be humbled by the miraculous gift of song. We are guided by nature to compose, but oft’ led by our egos to recite. Let us be humble in our sound, for that is truly when friendship, love, and beauty … Continue reading →

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I Followed a Writer Up a Tree

Posted on December 18, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

I followed a writer up a prodigious tree Every leaf I brushed, his poem. From the crown I scanned the pastoral a poetic landscape in repose, A resplendent chorus of Glistening verdant wisdom. O’ vast vibrato of sibilance slipping the … Continue reading →

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Nuances Matter: Poetry is a Mistress

Posted on December 16, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

The subtlety of sultry does not hide well among the obvious! We catch each others meter across the crowded parlor and steal off to the wings for sodden romantic whispers. Her muted presence is a cloud born particle of dust – … Continue reading →

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Sibilant Skin

Posted on December 16, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

When still, the world turns around the axis of my heart. From the dark within, lemniscates of a lantern light tie ribbons in my eyes; will you know me then? And when I die, a steady sibilant wind of myrrh … Continue reading →

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