Tag: freedom

• The Path Forward

  

  If only the eyes that see fire could feel the touch of flames creeping closer…

  Mitchel David Ring

  September 23, 2020

  Poems

  freedom, hope, poetry, shadow, underworld, writing

• Barricade

  

  Lock the cage door. Barricade it against the stars, the fortune of freedom given away…

  Mitchel David Ring

  August 29, 2020

  Poems

  freedom, mercy, poetry, story, whisper, writing

• Murky Waters

  

  Like a needle through flesh threading it all back together, piece by piece into a song of murky waters…

  Mitchel David Ring

  June 13, 2020

  Poems

  freedom, horror, nightmare, poetry, secrets, writing

• Echoes in the Wasteland

  

  Build them high and wide, these walls against the world raise them until the songs of the wasteland fade to whispers and become only echoes lost in the glare of a midnight sun…

  Mitchel David Ring

  February 16, 2020

  Poems

  freedom, poetry, prison, stars, wasteland, writing

• Taste of Freedom

  

  Sunrise on the Sea of Cortez A beach beginning to wake Beside an ocean that never slept

  Mitchel David Ring

  April 26, 2019

  Poems

  freedom, memory, moment, poetry, sea, storm

• Caged and Still

  

  I sit and stare at metal bars Silent and still, my heart aches

  Mitchel David Ring

  April 21, 2019

  Poems

  cage, escape, freedom, key, poetry, silence, trapped

• Flight

  

  Hidden beneath falling ash,Eyes closed, counting heartbeatsShattered glass like falling rainShimmers in the wind  Overhead the Watcher circlesDrawing closer, ever closerCarried by the winds of angerToward the light of breaking day  The clouds are fed by smokestacksThat tower overhead andSpew forth the breath of machinesToiling beneath the barren fields  A slow march of drones proceeds […]

  Mitchel David Ring

  February 13, 2019

  Poems

  ash, ashes, drones, dystopia, escape, flight, freedom, industrial, watcher