Tag: fire
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Light a Fire
Even if the wall seems built miles high, a door is waiting to open. Light a fire and the smoke may reveal it…
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Everything Under the Sun
I watched you speaking at the altar of lost time your words concealed within the voice of the wind attacking the walls we built against the night…
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Matchstick Lullaby
She with the mask on walks among us veins pumping the same poisons lips a wall built up against the same words but eyes that reflect a different shadow…
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A City Made From Ashes
Scars cut deep by the witching blade spell out the rites of sacrifice made to what beast may watch from the shadows…
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Memories of the Lakeside
The stars shimmer and lie still Far from the hours of intoxication Our eyes paint works of art in the sky…
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A Thousand Songs
This house is warm with the scent of fire Voices talk of yesterday in matchstick glow And breathe out a thousand songs of tomorrow…
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A Handful of Fire
Sunrise on the wings of a solstice A handful of fire cupped for warmth Against the east wind out of the valley The land of wildling calls…
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Talk of Thunderstorms
When the door closed she showed me What was hidden behind her back A handful of fire that lit the walls with shadow And bathed our faces in twilight…
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In Search of Something to Massacre
Slow roving shadows over an empty field Meandering in search of something to massacre The crowd lining the fences, each wondering if it might be them When a dream came out of the night of wailing…
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The Path That Wasn’t There
I crawled along the face of the Earth Looked down and saw stars beneath my feet Over a distance I’ve crossed a thousand times.
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Dead Leaf Weather
Out in the dead leaf weather a man sits Wondering where he was when the embers caught Was he hugging his daughter in the airport terminal Driving the long way home alone Or have weeks gone by since a decade turned to ash?
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Lamentation of the Flame
Here stand the worthy at a gatheringBeneath the falling sun, lost in itInoculated against decaying timeThe poison in their veins a balm of fireDrawn from a well at the world’s center.The streets of Elysium are empty tonightRivers overrun by cleansing fireScorching the sky at the backs of the gatheredWho wait out the contagion, calling uponThe…
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Wind Across the Sand
Spare me the sandstorm elegy Steel wool scouring the eyes of the past Lies whispered to calm nightmare whirlwinds And let us sleep until the final morning…
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Eyes Wide
Laughing faces on the edge of darkness Twisting in the blue-gold light, the digital glow Eyes are windows into shadow, or mirrors And these cliffs that tumble out of the forest To drown themselves in the raging sea From heights lost to a woolen sky…
Mitchel David Ring 