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Careless Gods

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Mitchel David Ring4 Comments

Walk with me into this wretched place to sift through refuse left behind by careless gods heaped upon the altars we built to them and strewn over the halls of their cathedrals...

Posted in PoemsTagged abandoned, free verse, gods, message, poetry, writing

Night Over Cryptic Lands

January 22, 2020January 21, 2020 Mitchel David Ring5 Comments

It was out on the broken glass slopes of mountains that towered as kings over the wild-light desert where I watched the ruby sky turn to ink...

Posted in PoemsTagged broken, free verse, longing, poetry, stars, writing

Waiting at the Edge

January 21, 2020January 21, 2020 Mitchel David Ring7 Comments

In the hollow place a desert gathered and scores of the weary gazed across the sand to the far side secrets of the horizon...

Posted in PoemsTagged desert, free verse, message, poetry, storm, writing

The Shape of Moonlight

January 20, 2020January 19, 2020 Mitchel David Ring10 Comments

I saw you as you once were a reflection in a blade raised against the night a being of moonlight in a distant world smiling to yourself at some mystery...

Posted in PoemsTagged free verse, moonlight, mystery, poetry, stars, writing

Beneath Rushing Falls

January 19, 2020January 18, 2020 Mitchel David Ring16 Comments

I watched you walk beneath the rushing falls back and forth along the granite ledge feeling the weight of the river cascade upon you...

Posted in PoemsTagged fantasy, free verse, poetry, summit, waterfall, writing

Beneath the Fruiting Tree

January 18, 2020January 18, 2020 Mitchel David Ring11 Comments

Almost the dark of night is deep enough for this garden of secrets to be planted Soil rich in sorcery waits beneath the fruiting tree ready to embrace the broken seeds...

Posted in PoemsTagged free verse, garden, harvest, poetry, secrets, writing

The Coming of Strange Beasts

January 17, 2020January 17, 2020 Mitchel David Ring14 Comments

Feed my soul the pieces of a shattered sky The sweetwater stars like funeral wine paint visions of ruin across the empty night until the bottle runs dry...

Posted in PoemsTagged free verse, memory, poetry, stars, vision, writing

What We Aren’t Saying

January 16, 2020March 22, 2020 Mitchel David Ring3 Comments

Faces laughing, awash in a bloodred glow Whispered truths lost beneath the conversation Glimpses away into secret places...

Posted in PoemsTagged conversation, free verse, memory, poetry, secrets, writing

Strange and Distant Sea

January 15, 2020January 15, 2020 Mitchel David Ring12 Comments

Your touch was lightning in the freezing rain The main line plugged straight into a nerve As the sky screamed overhead...

Posted in PoemsTagged free verse, poetry, sea, storm, strange, writing

It Comes Crawling

January 14, 2020January 14, 2020 Mitchel David RingLeave a comment

Fear the waking nightmare out among the dunes It comes crawling over sands that move like water to this harbor in the dry mountains bent on awakening the forgotten ways...

Posted in PoemsTagged desert, forgotten, free verse, nightmare, poetry, writing

A City Made From Ashes

January 13, 2020January 13, 2020 Mitchel David Ring6 Comments

Scars cut deep by the witching blade spell out the rites of sacrifice made to what beast may watch from the shadows...

Posted in PoemsTagged city, fire, free verse, poetry, sacrifice, writing

At the Edge of Waking

January 12, 2020January 11, 2020 Mitchel David Ring7 Comments

Those images that come at the edge of waking weave lies I believe with all my heart only for a moment before the supports break pillars crumble and the fortress falls into the sea...

Posted in PoemsTagged death, dreams, free verse, ink, poetry, writing

Away Into Unknown Sin

January 11, 2020January 11, 2020 Mitchel David Ring14 Comments

All the many passageways Between truth and something darker Stretch unbroken across the holy lands And lead away into unknown sin...

Posted in PoemsTagged desert, faith, free verse, poetry, unknown, writing

Where the Sky Begins to Fall

January 10, 2020January 10, 2020 Mitchel David RingLeave a comment

Point out to me the road away from evergreen Where the forest grows sparse and the sky falls Flowing like rain to fill in the empty spaces...

Posted in PoemsTagged free verse, journey, memory, poetry, storm, writing

You Were Never Lost

January 9, 2020January 9, 2020 Mitchel David Ring8 Comments

You were never lost to the mist of dead time You went there willingly, triumphant in defeat With a voice of thunder crying out over fields of drought...

Posted in PoemsTagged free verse, growing, harvest, laughter, poetry, writing

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