Category Archives: poetry

Chanced to Meet a Ghost Writer

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

I chanced to meet a ghost writer at my door, her transportation failed just down the road A sojourning doppelgänger of sorts …an elusive reflection who in need of a tow. Transmuting words to wine, We both sip time to … Continue reading →

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Overland: Fight the Poet, Love the Master

Posted on April 23, 2013 by skipavm@gmail.com

Morning brings a clearer visionas the sun makes its assentAnd dwells in the blueBefore it’s journey overland.Under one God,Our small animationsapproximate gesturesof lives arrangedby a benevolent hand.How gentle their hearts beatthat resound overland.Charged with the blessingFor every last man.That rage … Continue reading →

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Poems in Pieces

Posted on April 23, 2013 by skipavm@gmail.com

(April 23, 2013) The explosion, the cloud, the light. Love is an explosion…we are shrapnel. I am able to see so clearly… those nimble stonemasons who drive the cold steel pitons into the hewn splendid cracks of my being, so … Continue reading →

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Turning out the beasts

Posted on April 23, 2013 by skipavm@gmail.com

I remember turning my horses out to pasture…and they’d light out to the furthest corners as fast as milkweed fairies on the wind.    These beasts of burden are stubborn like my heart is resolved at times.  But so beautiful to … Continue reading →

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Who am I

Posted on November 4, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

I am the contents that has no container.   A sinner when I do right and a saint when I do wrong.   I am the feeling that you’re not alone and the reminder that you are.   tis nothing … Continue reading →

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Hairpin Turns through the Ages

Posted on October 5, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

I once held the whole of time in the tiniest hands of a child and then my hands grew.  But the abundance of time did not.  It is not the amount of time before us or behind us, it is … Continue reading →

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I Gotta Lot Undoing to Do

Posted on September 27, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

When I was down, I got high When life got in the way, I still got by There was nothing going ‘round that I didn’t go through But what you left undone between us, isn’t something that I want to … Continue reading →

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Her Poem

Posted on August 23, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

It’s okay to let me go For a moment to journey alone To bear the torment once again but I promise I’ll come home. I’ve no fear of going back Just to reminisce A fleeting glance, a word perchance Or … Continue reading →

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Dance and the Dancer

Posted on August 23, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Life lies in state beneath my fingertips,Held at bay by the stay of my hand. Poised in the breeze As the weight on the keys,Starts to tap out the song of a man. That sparks a light in this torpid … Continue reading →

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Tears in the Thirsting Years

Posted on July 26, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

How intriguing to fathom the labors of love, Staring up from a fathomless well. As if happiness might lift the wings of a dove,Clipped and weeping in the hollows of hell.With great stealth it navigates the depths of doubt,To overtake a torrent … Continue reading →

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