Category Archives: poetry

Raw Hands (Palestine)

Posted on July 20, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Child unearthed alive after buried in Gaza by Israeli air bombardment. After a “warning bomb” through your roof, you are given 58 seconds to run, and 8 minutes to dig your child out from the rubble.  The completely buried child’s … Continue reading →

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Poetry in the Elusive Garden

Posted on July 19, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

We pluck sweet and thorny words, like roses, from the cacophony and hand them to one another in the vicissitudes of poetry. From pre-eternity, it is we who are plucked from garden of non-existence to dwell a while in the … Continue reading →

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Remember My Face

Posted on July 19, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

It was not my home they bombedThe little girl said,But a thin shell which failed instead.My home?It is within a billion heartsAnd beyond that,part of every star.My name?It’s spoken in every tongue,But a different languageFor everyone.And what ever for us,was willed … Continue reading →

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Bliss is a Master of Disguise

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

Every story is story within a story. And clarity doesn’t come while in lotus position, chanting in dhikr, near death experiences, or love making (although the latter two can be faintly indistinguishable) Rather, it is not just in the “doing” … Continue reading →

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Pieces of Gibran

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

To marvel at Gibran the writer, his works, or the self disclosure both reading and knowing him brings. Which? Which? Perhaps, we should not try to disassemble anything that already leaves us feeling whole. We cannot reassemble colors into pure … Continue reading →

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from whence we come

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

…it is the unsettled heart beneath the wool fluttering the fabric over which we roam pulsing rhythms and melodies that harken voices along paths unknown to singing sands of harmony recalling, recalling whence we come… tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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Content sans Container

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

Words of wishes have earthly limits Heaven’s silent melody hath no harmony on earth but prayer Carriages of flesh secretly conveyed passengers By God’s disclosure Open this parcel one last time One last gasp before I expel disclosure like smoke against … Continue reading →

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A gift in an open hand

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

So compelled. So easy to close one’s hand on so fine a feather. A few have sailed in the pendulous descent, to land gently where I stood. Loosened by both bird taken flight and a bird landed. Oh, these signs … Continue reading →

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Who orbits whom

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

A channel cannot possess the water that flows within it… their relationship is both a river still and a river wild. To possess even our own secret would be to violate the sanctity of the hearts wilderness, yet we pirouette … Continue reading →

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Alchemicalamity

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

All the earth elements in repose something to breath in dreams of those You must sleep so well being who you are, whenever you do sleep. with no fear of hell… Words leap to their tragic death off the end … Continue reading →

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