Category Archives: poetry

Perth, Australia

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

I pressed firmly into my seat, as the massive jet slipped gravity.  At 300 kilometers per hour, the runway in Melbourne fell away, music already in my ears, companionless as usual.  We banked hard to the west, rising above the … Continue reading →

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Lines in the Sand

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

Sleepy words awakenLike a stirred morning child,Wincing through lashes at clarityBetwixt dreams and noises outside. They skip through their daysSlipping from graspOf convention, imagination,Institution, alas Like clay, paper, and notesThey become idle matter for craftUntil love cast the canvasThe artists, at last As … Continue reading →

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Strange Numb World

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

Like a once broken promise, she came to meOut of my past, across forever seascasting her truth into the furrows of dreamsSewing intimate seeds that hushed the screams And unsolved riddles of throttling fearThat one day next, hope would not get … Continue reading →

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Seasoning

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

If silence and solitude were to have weight they’d account for these hills, held fast in place. Which draw a chill from this glaucous sky, into fleeting cold winds, pulling tears from my eyes. Chimney smoke mingles above the roof … Continue reading →

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Boat Called Rock Bottom

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

Why would anyone set sail on a boat called “Rock Bottom” Yet here I am… The sky winked a few times the day spilled slowly and steadily out over the horizon. Millions of people cursed it, loved it, or wished … Continue reading →

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The Itinerant Lover

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

It doesn’t fail It always leads us by the hand Faster and faster pinching into the folds of night And we let it slip through our fingers And watch it run ahead, disappearing in the darkness, Leaving us itinerant, under … Continue reading →

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Off Urban Rap

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

I’m not drunk, maybe besotted, maundering, inebriate savant but ne’er  vapid.I’m loquacious, beset on periphrasis, riddled with circumlocution, and bullets from the execution.A scribbler of belletristic prose, with a dent on my nose.  I’m a fallen saint.  I’m like peeling … Continue reading →

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Several Friends Stopped By…

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

Several Friends stopped by in my dark hour. There I was…in the hole:Apathy – looks down into the hole, with those big blue eyes to ensure me everything would be just fine…, she shrugs, and she wanders off.Sympathy arrives – … Continue reading →

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Winding To a Point

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

A child stooped low and picked up a stoneAbout yay big, with a rounded edgeHe could find no reason to put it in his pocketSo he jumped to his feet instead. The boy’s eyes narrowed as he thought of this stoneAbout … Continue reading →

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Flesh

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

Earth pulls up its collar as the sun setsAll things cooling, creak,the most quiet is flesh. Pouring life through the waist of leaded glass,Countless grains two souls, in the talusAs fabrics glide, fiber and meshWarmth and velvetThe most soft is flesh Peeling … Continue reading →

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