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  • Sinking Ships

    Sinking Ships

    the dream is thinning…

    Mitchel David Ring

    March 19, 2022
    Poems
    free verse, life, memory, nature, ocean, poetry, story, writing
  • Distant Waves

    Distant Waves

    I left a part of myself in those woods by the sea…

    Mitchel David Ring

    March 13, 2022
    Poems
    Earth, forest, free verse, memory, ocean, poetry, story, writing
  • Feel the Rush

    Feel the Rush

    There wasn’t any meaning in me until you wrote my story

    Mitchel David Ring

    March 12, 2022
    Poems
    Earth, free verse, memory, poetry, story, writing
  • Wanting

    Wanting

    I want you more than I’ve ever wanted anything…

    Mitchel David Ring

    February 27, 2022
    Poems
    free verse, letting go, memory, poetry, story, writing
  • The Dead Turn

    The Dead Turn

    On a morning cold as ice, Drank the poison at my bedside…

    Mitchel David Ring

    February 2, 2022
    Poems
    color, darkness, mystery, poetry, song, story, writing
  • Seven Flowers

    Seven Flowers

    Give in, she whispered. It’s inevitable…

    Mitchel David Ring

    January 28, 2022
    Poems
    darkness, flowers, free verse, poetry, story, writing
  • newcomers

    newcomers

    breathe in cold vapors, ash, heat in our lungs…

    Mitchel David Ring

    January 14, 2022
    Poems
    doorway, free verse, journey, poetry, ritual, story, writing
  • Missing Sunshine

    Missing Sunshine

    Storm isn’t enough to describe it, what we resisted as long as we could…

    Mitchel David Ring

    December 18, 2021
    Poems
    free verse, moving on, poetry, seasons, storm, story, writing
  • Psychosis

    Psychosis

    Frantic, shaking in the dark, cold the way death is cold…

    Mitchel David Ring

    December 11, 2021
    Poems
    death, free verse, moonlight, poetry, promise, story, writing
  • Honeycomb

    Honeycomb

    The scene is set…

    Mitchel David Ring

    December 4, 2021
    Poems
    free verse, holy, poetry, Stories, story, writing
  • The Weeping Path

    The Weeping Path

    Come find answers— whisper at the moon…

    Mitchel David Ring

    December 1, 2021
    Poems
    dreams, path, pathway, poetry, story, writing
  • Scratch

    Scratch

    This world is acid on the skin not strong, but strong enough that it cannot be ignored…

    Mitchel David Ring

    November 19, 2021
    Poems
    blood, empty, firelight, free verse, poetry, story, writing
  • Ripples

    Ripples

    A stone tossed and turning dragging behind it the weight of all this…

    Mitchel David Ring

    October 23, 2021
    Poems
    free verse, hope, poetry, secret, storm, story, writing
  • Underfoot

    Underfoot

    It’s in the water, in the air here, the leaves not alone in their dying…

    Mitchel David Ring

    October 17, 2021
    Poems
    autumn, free verse, poetry, promise, story, writing
  • The Republic

    The Republic

    Gasping, choking among refuse and wreckage, crawling out of waves like hammer strokes, the sunset at our backs and broken masts silhouetted…

    Mitchel David Ring

    September 29, 2021
    Poems
    free verse, ocean, poetry, searching, story, wander, writing
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