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Glass Door

October 16, 2020October 16, 2020 Mitchel David Ring3 Comments

The words all laid out on the table, magic spells and treasure maps scratched out by invisible hands...

Posted in PoemsTagged journey, magic, poetry, prison, story, writing

Draw Near the Horizon

October 10, 2020October 9, 2020 Mitchel David Ring2 Comments

The wind carries our voices away across bleak lands soaked with trails of our blood...

Posted in UncategorizedTagged blood, horizon, journey, poetry, story, writing

The Same Song

September 2, 2020September 1, 2020 Mitchel David Ring33 Comments

If the message were clear then everyone would understand it, and we wouldn’t have to sit here listening to the same song over and over...

Posted in PoemsTagged journey, message, music, poetry, song, writing

A Voice Softly Calling

June 25, 2020June 24, 2020 Mitchel David Ring11 Comments

This is the emptiness that brings absolution, the long-sought silence, the deep breath before a blind leap...

Posted in PoemsTagged darkness, horror, journey, poetry, voices, writing

Visions of the Sea

June 24, 2020June 23, 2020 Mitchel David Ring4 Comments

And to the ship with sails unfurled on red horizons said the wind, ‘Come follow me’...

Posted in PoemsTagged death, journey, ocean, poetry, sea, writing

Verses

June 19, 2020June 18, 2020 Mitchel David Ring12 Comments

And it came to pass that shadows fell, and the people did bow before the darkness...

Posted in PoemsTagged darkness, horror, journey, poetry, promise, writing

The First Ritual

June 18, 2020June 17, 2020 Mitchel David Ring4 Comments

Those on the road wailing at the stars came to the crossroads and met eyes smoldering...

Posted in PoemsTagged crossroads, journey, magic, poetry, ritual, writing

Sink

June 17, 2020June 16, 2020 Mitchel David RingLeave a comment

I saw where solid rock turned into shadow from far above something I’ll never know...

Posted in PoemsTagged journey, night, poetry, shadow, silence, writing

Safe Harbor

June 12, 2020June 12, 2020 Mitchel David Ring4 Comments

Sails furled at the calm water bay, drifting toward port as ghosts of long summer spent on seas with a will set to break us...

Posted in PoemsTagged harbor, journey, ocean, poetry, summer, writing

Pilgrimage

June 7, 2020June 7, 2020 Mitchel David Ring12 Comments

Where walk the shades of the once-lived wraiths on pilgrimage to lands of smoke and shadow gone over rain-starved and broken roads...

Posted in PoemsTagged journey, lost, poetry, shadow, watchtower, writing

Hope Fading

June 5, 2020June 4, 2020 Mitchel David RingLeave a comment

Only hope letting go, drifting away on the breath of an aching universe...

Posted in PoemsTagged hope, journey, poetry, searching, wander, 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

They’re Not Like Us

May 8, 2020May 7, 2020 Mitchel David Ring2 Comments

They breathe air to survive and choke on it...

Posted in PoemsTagged dawn, journey, nightmare, poetry, survival, writing

Something Left Behind

May 7, 2020May 7, 2020 Mitchel David Ring1 Comment

It’s the open road away from some part of me something left behind that I may never return to...

Posted in PoemsTagged forgotten, journey, poetry, road, secret, writing

There’s a Reason

May 4, 2020May 3, 2020 Mitchel David Ring10 Comments

Maybe there’s a reason for the slow tearing away, the new rifts opening between stepping stones across the river...

Posted in PoemsTagged darkness, journey, ocean, poetry, tide, writing

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