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Ashley Skillman Poem
The darkness, it flies
As it swallows your eyes
My ships, they capsize
Break that delicate pool surface
As I fall and baptize
Your waters, they shake
They tremble and wait
Like clockwork, they give a life
Right as they take
I’m glowing, alone
Surrounded by snow
And nobody knows
About the fire flies that burn inside
My mind and my toes
A fire of blues, of scarlet wind hues
Like feathers they drag
Across galaxies of skin
They embody the burn
That we ache for, a sin
Copyright © Ashley Skillman | Year Posted 2011
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Miracles are clouds
Far away, untouchable
Yet we’re flying through
The face of Divine
Hides quietly inside this
Haze of fear and doubt
So my hope remains
Throughout the breaks of sadness
That you’ll see your light
Copyright © Ashley Skillman | Year Posted 2011
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at your own burial
maybe there will be tears
but maybe what is living in those tears
are galaxies of stars
moons and space and the always present
truth
that we can never grasp
what is so eternally bigger than ourselves
that it breaks our hearts to love
and that time is created
yet somehow exists, entirely on it's own
we will cry at the small shape of our lives
that we could only mold if we realized that it was putty
we are infinitely big
and we are infinitely small
we must look from one
with hopes for the other
Copyright © Ashley Skillman | Year Posted 2011
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There is a moment
When everything aligns
The chaos connects
And dots fill with lines
The hungry gets happy before it gets full
The storm magnifies
Before it falls to a lull
Imagine you are floating
Alone and unknown
When a dragonfly who wants to dry lands on your toe
Look into its eyes
As it stares into yours
In a sweet moment you are one
And then away it goes
It’s all part of the flow
We’re here then we’re gone
We reach then we retreat
I don’t know what I want when the world tastes so sweet
There’s a careless perfection
In the inner workings of creation, destruction
There’s a sturdy balance lifts us, drops us
Yet we always remain in the air
Sometimes we seem to be held up by strings
A careful dance of the marionettes
We sway with the thought
That our clever movements are so creative
So innovative
How easy it is to ignore
When you are the puppet
How easy it is to overlook
When you are the puppeteer
Copyright © Ashley Skillman | Year Posted 2010
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I’m soaring through all of the things I’ve seen
Dancing with the ways things could have been
I don’t need eyes to vision my dreams
To drift in your world
And swing as I sleep
The careless slumbers of something sweet
There’s evidence here that I’m nothing pure
Yet somehow I lie in the dirt and glimmer
The sun shines through
Sky streaks through the mud
I can feel you are close
I am aware of your love
It pounds in me and it’s eating you
A whisper of life
A taste so raw
I can feel it in my bones
In my words and my thoughts
How ironic
That a fear of death is what kills me
And brings me to life
Opens my eyes and widens my skies
Eternal space
Nothing yet full
I watch my breath, imagine the clouds I exude
When what I see becomes a part of me
The stars will be knots in my bloodstream
My lungs full of water, the sway of the sea
It’s rocking me
And it’s scaring you
You see in me what I’ll never wish to see in you
Everywhere I’ve been is everything I am
I look under rocks, I check under the bed
Where is the divine, is it all in my head?
I question reality in all of its forms
I’m dreaming a dream within a dream where I’m dreaming that I’m dreaming
I am awake and alive when I realize I’m sleeping
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Vast nothingness
Open pages
Connected stars
Bright eyes
A tingling touch
A riveting feeling
Manifest my destiny
Close my eyes
Feel my soul
Feed my spirit
Open your lips, your hands, your heart
And create beauty
The clouds
They move slowly above your head
But don't miss their movement
(This poem was written in about 2 minutes. I sat down and wrote the first words that
popped into my head.)
Copyright © Ashley Skillman | Year Posted 2009
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It gets lonely sometimes
Being the anchor as the empty boat hovers above my head
I visualize peace, try to manifest it
Sometimes I feel like it's almost there
Sometimes it passes before I even know it was
To be divine
I must learn to always be bright like the sun
And glow like the loving moon
To light up my darkness
..diminishing the shadows
So that all is clear
And real
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The world is always in balance
Harmony is created again and again
Disguised in the madness
Tucked under this sadness
Peeling at the corners, twirling mad with the wind
The things that are
And the way things are not
Defy all the control and continuous plot
The maze aint the same as the ones that proceed
Yet the middle and its trappings
Make you seethe with unease
You stand at the cliff, where the edge meets the sky
With your burning heart, pounding
You let go and fly
But you don’t- not yet
Your toes grip the earth
Why can’t you sink into the chaos?
Why not multiply your mirth
Your misery, pity-me
Your cry to the Divine
I only exceed you because I try all the time
I will not drop anchor at these murky, damp streets
I will not shelter my fears, I will gut them, expose them
Let them rot like raw meat
Because I am alive
And my heart, it survives
I will open my skies, let them bloom
Crystallize
Copyright © Ashley Skillman | Year Posted 2011
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Watch with wonder
IT is encompassing you all of the time
Acknowledge your passion
And bask in its beauty
Free the child inside
And watch for butterflies at your feet
Grip the grass between your toes
While knowing that the earth won't let you go
Twirl round and round
We are water, we are fluid
Bring the stars back
To the cloudy night above
Can we only fly in dreams?
Copyright © Ashley Skillman | Year Posted 2009
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Something alive is in the moon
I'll live forever
Bathing in its glow
Lifting so slowly
To an enlightened state of being
One day my mind will quiet
To a petal-soft whisper
The galaxy runs through my blood
The heavens are in my eyes
...yet I dream of your kiss
Until then,
The warmth that fills the skies
I'll breathe into my body
Copyright © Ashley Skillman | Year Posted 2009
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