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Where Time Stopped

November 21, 2020November 21, 2020 Mitchel David Ring7 Comments

Something about this place feels broken...

Posted in PoemsTagged darkness, horror, poetry, story, time, writing

Perpetual Dawn

November 15, 2020November 15, 2020 Mitchel David Ring2 Comments

This story begins and ends in a place of long shadows...

Posted in PoemsTagged darkness, illusion, language, poetry, story, writing

Machines

October 22, 2020October 21, 2020 Mitchel David Ring2 Comments

In this land of machines the Makers walk surrounded by the phosphorescent glow of progress...

Posted in PoemsTagged darkness, dreams, poetry, progress, story, writing

Carried by the Tide

July 3, 2020July 2, 2020 Mitchel David Ring4 Comments

I think it was the waves lapping at the rocks that really drove it home...

Posted in PoemsTagged broken, darkness, poetry, sadness, shore, writing

A Voice Softly Calling

June 25, 2020June 24, 2020 Mitchel David Ring11 Comments

This is the emptiness that brings absolution, the long-sought silence, the deep breath before a blind leap...

Posted in PoemsTagged darkness, horror, journey, poetry, voices, writing

Verses

June 19, 2020June 18, 2020 Mitchel David Ring12 Comments

And it came to pass that shadows fell, and the people did bow before the darkness...

Posted in PoemsTagged darkness, horror, journey, poetry, promise, writing

Slash and Burn

May 30, 2020May 29, 2020 Mitchel David Ring10 Comments

The great forest fell to slash and burn, and we gathered on a barren hillside to watch industry in the distance...

Posted in PoemsTagged burning, darkness, onward, poetry, revolution, writing

Waiting

May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 Mitchel David Ring7 Comments

The waiting is the hardest part— waiting for the sun to rise, waiting for the smoke to clear...

Posted in PoemsTagged beauty, chances, darkness, decay, poetry, writing

Waiting for the Night to Die

May 14, 2020May 13, 2020 Mitchel David Ring8 Comments

Here I stand where the earth breaks away, waiting for the night to die...

Posted in PoemsTagged darkness, ocean, poetry, shadow, strange, writing

There’s a Reason

May 4, 2020May 3, 2020 Mitchel David Ring10 Comments

Maybe there’s a reason for the slow tearing away, the new rifts opening between stepping stones across the river...

Posted in PoemsTagged darkness, journey, ocean, poetry, tide, writing

More Light

April 15, 2020April 14, 2020 Mitchel David Ring6 Comments

Ink veins golden across black pages rise and fall with the dawn...

Posted in PoemsTagged cave, darkness, echoes, ink, poetry, writing

Faded Reflection

April 3, 2020April 2, 2020 Mitchel David Ring11 Comments

I’m sitting here across streets and snowdrifts watching for a signal out of this haunted night when maybe I should be out there, listening...

Posted in PoemsTagged darkness, haunted, horror, poetry, reflection, writing

Beyond the Reach of Moonlight

March 28, 2020March 27, 2020 Mitchel David Ring8 Comments

Secrets pass through these halls, darkened by this night of waiting...

Posted in PoemsTagged darkness, immortal, paradise, poetry, secrets, writing

Shadows in the Corner

March 27, 2020March 26, 2020 Mitchel David Ring4 Comments

Between fountains of light a well of darkness, nightfall pouring into abyssal depths...

Posted in PoemsTagged darkness, haunted, light, poetry, shadows, writing

Leviathan in Shallow Waters

March 25, 2020March 24, 2020 Mitchel David Ring6 Comments

Out of void comes consciousness leviathan in shallow waters without memory of that dark beyond darkness...

Posted in PoemsTagged chaos, darkness, desert, leviathan, poetry, writing

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