Tag: darkness
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Faded Reflection
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…
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Shadows in the Corner
Between fountains of light a well of darkness, nightfall pouring into abyssal depths…
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Leviathan in Shallow Waters
Out of void comes consciousness leviathan in shallow waters without memory of that dark beyond darkness…
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Secret on Solar Wind
Away along night-shrouded streets one light in a sea of them trying to make out some message a secret on solar winds that never come…
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Uncertain Things
For a moment our hands reached out into darkness and it seemed we might take hold of something hold it up to the light and say ‘we found it’…
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Along the Shore
Through the crowd a familiar face smiles and though it beckons me to sit at its table share a drink and play a hand of cards or two…
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The Path to Rapture
A doorway empty and charred awaits Look in and see what you left behind Forgotten on the path to rapture…
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Comfort of Darkness
When night falls, a prophet roams the streets And all who hear his voice close their doors, shutter their windows— Barricade against the call to arms The challenge of a mind that sees beyond the wall.
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Master of Ruins
It was only for a breath that I saw you Your shadow passed behind some silhouetted appliance and was gone And the words I meant to say to you sprang out across the chasm With never an inkling chance that you would ever hear them…
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World of New Shadow
I drew back the curtain and there was a face in the window Staring in at my life with unblinking apathy Night’s halo around that wide-eyed smile The mouth of a fiend; he looked like he might be lonely So I invited him inside for some company…
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A Dream of Light
This is the crossroads of a million worlds A place to rest at the end of all paths In a living ocean of thoughts and dreams
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One Town Over
The street is lined with silent watchers A spectacle of starlight above and below the horizon Where their minds live, where their souls dream…
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Hold Fast the Gate
I’ve seen this back alley before In the haze of a dream world, though awake These blinding lights strike me as familiar Behind the door up ahead a staircase descends Into an underworld that awaits my return
Mitchel David Ring 