Category: Poems
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Silence
Again and again the walls speak— always the same words drowned out by echoes of the conversation in the room…
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Long Shadows
There is a tower risen out of sand, a wall built to touch both horizons at the edges fallen into raging seas…
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Woven Ritual
These phantoms come crawling out of shadow eyes like dead stars, mouths twisted into smiles…
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The Descent
Soft light over valleys resting in shadow cradled by mountains grasping at the sky— lords of the winding rivers gone far away to quench the horizon’s thirst for more…
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Threads
The faces of this crowd are hidden behind masks stitched together from scraps of imagination…
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Created
You know me best in quiet moments before the storm breaks, when our breath alone tells a thousand stories…
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Eleusinian Dreams
This is a place where only time has walked and yet behind black windows I know my past awaits me…
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Lying in Wait
Lying in wait amid shadows cast by sleeping giants, together breathing in a rise and fall as colors melt and swirl in the silver sky above…
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Razors
Inside is the beckoning voice, puppet strings dragging our stiff limbs across razor wire tightropes strung up on high…
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Lay Waste
From this high up the world seems not to move— fading into new realities, twisted landscapes…
Mitchel David Ring 