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Almost Neverending

December 14, 2020December 14, 2020 Mitchel David RingLeave a comment

Softly, as though the shadows might hear us we crept the length of the hall...

Posted in PoemsTagged dawn, fire, poetry, reflection, story, writing

Hallowed

December 13, 2020December 12, 2020 Mitchel David RingLeave a comment

These dark skies and darker lands rolling on and on to blind cliffs above the graveyard of the damned...

Posted in PoemsTagged graveyard, paradise, poetry, search, story, writing

Rendezvous

December 11, 2020 Mitchel David Ring1 Comment

Edges so ragged they do not know themselves on a rendezvous at the far side of infinity...

Posted in PoemsTagged infinity, magic, poetry, space, story, writing

Fragments

December 10, 2020December 10, 2020 Mitchel David Ring2 Comments

Out of all these fragments a message comes, the decayed whispering a constant warning...

Posted in PoemsTagged ancient, broken, message, poetry, story, writing

The King in Red

December 9, 2020December 9, 2020 Mitchel David Ring1 Comment

On our knees before the King in Red we heed the master’s call to serve...

Posted in PoemsTagged madness, oblivion, poetry, song, story, writing

Desert Wounds

December 7, 2020December 6, 2020 Mitchel David Ring8 Comments

Salt on skin bare to the sun burns like that high fire flowing through canals from scar to scar...

Posted in PoemsTagged alchemy, desert, mythology, poetry, story, writing

Backroads

December 5, 2020December 4, 2020 Mitchel David Ring3 Comments

All these nights spent on backroads, peering into the woods at watching eyes passing us by as stars of a winter sky...

Posted in PoemsTagged free, poetry, stars, story, winter, writing

Collecting Rain

December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 Mitchel David Ring8 Comments

Desperation is the song of lost souls slipping away toward something so far beyond that even starlight is a distant memory...

Posted in PoemsTagged beyond, Earth, memory, poetry, story, writing

In the Drowned Valleys

December 2, 2020December 1, 2020 Mitchel David Ring14 Comments

...the long months breaking like endless waves high upon the hills and in the drowned valleys...

Posted in PoemsTagged harvest, poetry, seasons, story, winter, writing

More to Come

December 1, 2020November 30, 2020 Mitchel David Ring2 Comments

In dim light the others come through wearing faces sewn from silk and gold...

Posted in PoemsTagged alive, poetry, shadows, story, whisper, writing

Let the Earth Bury Me

November 28, 2020November 27, 2020 Mitchel David Ring6 Comments

Let the Earth bury me here, beneath slow winds and shifting sand...

Posted in PoemsTagged ancient, desert, garden, poetry, story, writing

Silence

November 27, 2020November 27, 2020 Mitchel David Ring1 Comment

Again and again the walls speak— always the same words drowned out by echoes of the conversation in the room...

Posted in PoemsTagged eternity, loneliness, poetry, scream, story, writing

Long Shadows

November 25, 2020November 25, 2020 Mitchel David RingLeave a comment

There is a tower risen out of sand, a wall built to touch both horizons at the edges fallen into raging seas...

Posted in PoemsTagged desert, journey, poetry, story, time, writing

Woven Ritual

November 24, 2020November 24, 2020 Mitchel David Ring2 Comments

These phantoms come crawling out of shadow eyes like dead stars, mouths twisted into smiles...

Posted in PoemsTagged horror, magic, poetry, ritual, story, writing

The Descent

November 22, 2020November 22, 2020 Mitchel David Ring2 Comments

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...

Posted in PoemsTagged journey, poetry, possibilities, river, story, writing

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