Category Archives: Short Stuff

Wild Vine

Posted on December 10, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

We are each alone and together everywhere. Not a molecule of you do I contain; refresh your beauty where you need for you travel like a wild vine in search of falling light, but your roots run deep into me, oh Beloved, I … Continue reading →

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quips 3

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

I’ve surrounded myself with dear friends who are the foundation for their own loving truths. Some of us just write the words we hear in the hearts of others… as such, who is poet and who is listener!? Educate our … Continue reading →

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Come Hither

Posted on November 14, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Silence blossoms While mere words wither In empty spaces, echoes, Calling, “beloved, come hither” A flower knows not for whom its petals shown Yet its fragrance seems so personal As if meant for me alone. tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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Trifles Past Lips

Posted on November 14, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Banter is but trifle…as anything less than the sound of wind through wings; all else is just breath past lips to raise nothing more than a fading voice to a wanting ear.   tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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Wordness

Posted on October 5, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

I read. I listened. I composed what might resemble a word. And then realized, that the innermost attribute of a word is wordless wrapped in word-ness. All I could think to say, is all I could feel in silence… just … Continue reading →

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Restless Milieu

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

I went to bed with a bad memory All night it kept kicking me in the heart In the morning when we woke neither of us felt we got any rest tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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Hibiscus Dreams

Posted on September 10, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

She’s underhand throwing words with her mouth The boy leans in past natural borders, to study the agenda in her eyes He is built like a bent paperclip, with bottlebrush forelocks, a barracuda jaw. Between her bare legs, she gently … Continue reading →

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Glowing is like falling out of darkness

Posted on September 10, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

An old friend Carl Richardson) posted this quote by apparently an unknown author, “…you see the true color of a person when you are no longer beneficial in their life…” Rather than traipsing through the jaded past, this set me … Continue reading →

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Shift

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

A note to Peter, whom I met through nothing less or more than art.  “These encounters always provide some trace of ‘shift.’  We’re all given minute and subtle chances to achieve some prodigious schemes. So I tend to leave no … Continue reading →

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Quivering Leaves

Posted on August 21, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald Love is a breeze that stirs a million tree leaves, so much, that each leaf believes it is in love with … Continue reading →

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