Category Archives: poetry

Ode to a Road Runner

Posted on March 6, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

(March 6, 2014) Diamond hard headache you have a chemical in your left hand and the door is to your right. Pavement. Take the pavement, quick. Oh wrinkled earth, do you feel my gentle journeys across your skin? I am … Continue reading →

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Well. I can tell you, I’ve seen some things: The Tale of Don Quixote

Posted on March 6, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

For Alonso, the day was sinking into dusk But for Dulcinea, her knight was rising. Long his lance’s shadow stretched And thus his stories, picaresque. He flaunts his tale of espionage, Purring silent and clandestine “there I sprung from camouflage … Continue reading →

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You are This

Posted on March 6, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

You are not ON the blindly unfolding path, you ARE the path. You are as you are as you wander, no matter where you wander. It is your most divine countenance along the way that creates the barely utterable mystical … Continue reading →

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Friend or Foe

Posted on March 3, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Below the exalted peaks of a mountain is its root. Plunging down and down, below the last stand of the tree line. Your spirit abrades as it Rumbles across the scree Deep into the replenishing pores of bedrock. Every one … Continue reading →

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Friend or Foe

Posted on March 3, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

  Below the exalted peaks of a mountain is its root. Plunging down and down, below the last stand of the tree line. Your spirit abrades as it Rumbles across the scree Deep into the replenishing pores of bedrock. Every … Continue reading →

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Light Too Far

Posted on February 24, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Rose snipped from thorns Still another grows … yours dies, You look too far For beauty. Walk over earth, No place to dig, You search too far for gold. Questions rise Past your throat, Seeking answers Closer than the vein … Continue reading →

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Rose Petals Falling in the Garden

Posted on February 24, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Memories fade to susurrus. Dusk cast shadows rise the temple wall. Amber skin, maternal fields, Upon soft abdomen, his ear falls. Below the peel of empyrean, fruit of a woman, brave the man who clings the rind, But braver he let’s go in … Continue reading →

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My Highway’s Washed Away

Posted on January 31, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiGXnI7CM1k This song by DCD swelled this poem up within me – Prologue: sitting at my desk, Criss-cross applesauce gasping like a dying child. Dying to flee the corpse of a man. I, not a child anymore, Who’s imagination is … Continue reading →

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Inspired by those inspired by those inspired

Posted on December 20, 2013 by skipavm@gmail.com

A broken heart is in want of that one healing treasure, like a frenzied moth to die in the candle flame. There is a painful longing in both – heart and moth – for the same return. Let us tread … Continue reading →

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worthy to love

Posted on July 31, 2013 by skipavm@gmail.com

When you know yourself – I mean truly know the bone and sinew holding you upright in the mirror. From felted creases along folded chits of memory to the dogeared pages of emotional reminders – when your margins are filled … Continue reading →

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