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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

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

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

Deities

November 3, 2020November 2, 2020 Mitchel David Ring1 Comment

It was perfect weather for a funeral the sky above swollen, gray heavy with a rain that might not fall...

Posted in PoemsTagged death, desert, journey, memory, poetry, writing

Bacchanal

October 9, 2020October 8, 2020 Mitchel David Ring4 Comments

What once flowed as bacchanal wine, soaking into soil where seeds waited to sprout has spread to the edge of desert and evaporated...

Posted in UncategorizedTagged bacchus, desert, poetry, promise, story, writing

Things Fell Apart

September 27, 2020September 26, 2020 Mitchel David Ring9 Comments

We must be on the third or fourth coming by now. Maybe there was a scheduling error...

Posted in PoemsTagged desert, poetry, story, W. B. Yeats, wisdom, writing

The Scryers

September 14, 2020September 13, 2020 Mitchel David Ring12 Comments

Stand and speak in tongues of fire, stories of the last flame in this desert world...

Posted in PoemsTagged desert, legend, poetry, prophecy, story, writing

After the Wave

September 3, 2020September 2, 2020 Mitchel David Ring6 Comments

After the wave broke and rolled back we came to the beach to see what had washed ashore...

Posted in PoemsTagged broken, desert, poetry, story, war, writing

Cornucopia

July 13, 2020July 12, 2020 Mitchel David Ring2 Comments

Through lands of milk and honey he went, left behind all who watched him walk away to search for those in the shadows who still reach for the cornucopia...

Posted in PoemsTagged desert, poetry, promises, starlight, writing

No Vision

July 7, 2020July 6, 2020 Mitchel David Ring10 Comments

No vision of the sun laid bare, only distorted reflections through desert haze...

Posted in PoemsTagged death, desert, life, poetry, reflection, writing

Antique Secrets

June 11, 2020June 10, 2020 Mitchel David Ring9 Comments

Passage back into dreams I’ve seen can be bought with the last drop of rain fallen in a land made desert...

Posted in PoemsTagged antique, desert, dreams, nightmare, poetry, writing

Rage On

June 1, 2020May 31, 2020 Mitchel David Ring9 Comments

On the other side of the desert, we came to a lake of fire...

Posted in PoemsTagged desert, drowning, fire, poetry, searching, writing

Death Blow

May 23, 2020May 22, 2020 Mitchel David Ring4 Comments

You’ve been bleeding ink for miles on your dead man’s trek across the desert...

Posted in PoemsTagged blood, death, desert, journey, poetry, writing

Eyes Open

April 29, 2020April 28, 2020 Mitchel David Ring4 Comments

Into wild country go the few with eyes open away searching for what they’ve already seen...

Posted in PoemsTagged desert, follow, oasis, poetry, psychedelic, writing

Through Fire

April 24, 2020April 23, 2020 Mitchel David Ring14 Comments

In the desert under sandfalls a black box speaks in acid tongues...

Posted in PoemsTagged desert, electric, music, poetry, worship, writing

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