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Watch What Happens Now

October 14, 2020October 13, 2020 Mitchel David Ring1 Comment

Lost in valleys of the smoking hills, a highway runs with no beginning and no end...

Posted in PoemsTagged devour, infinity, longing, poetry, story, 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

Markings in the Sand

December 30, 2019December 30, 2019 Mitchel David Ring2 Comments

From outside these walls absolution is a memory And exaltation seems a thousand miles away But I’ve seen the faces in the hall of deliverance Longing for all they were promised...

Posted in PoemsTagged absolution, free verse, longing, poetry, return, writing

The Breath of Waiting for This Moment

September 25, 2019September 26, 2019 Mitchel David Ring7 Comments

The voice that calls out across the field Calls out in beckoning, come ever closer With fists clenched hidden at its sides And the breath of waiting for this moment thick in its mouth...

Posted in PoemsTagged depraved, Earth, fear, longing, monster, poetry

Abdication

September 1, 2019September 1, 2019 Mitchel David Ring2 Comments

Outside a starlit window stretches a snow-filled plain Blank canvas waiting in the night for a hand to fill it. Candle flames flicker against the glass, A queen’s face reflected in a fantasy Where her mind wanders with its waking thoughts.

Posted in PoemsTagged fable, fantasy, longing, poetry, wander

Are You There?

August 2, 2019August 2, 2019 Mitchel David Ring3 Comments

Are you there, at the edge of vision Just beyond sight, the grass around your body Bent as a servant to a king A voice of the river, breath is the rolling sea...

Posted in PoemsTagged alone, ghost, longing, path, poetry, together

Behind Us

March 24, 2019March 24, 2019 Mitchel David Ring2 Comments

Behind each foray into days whose truth has been forgottenTrails of used up bodies, broken hearts, souls emptied to the wind, lie abandoned.Happiness was given as a whisper for ears no longer listening,Still ready to radiate into the cold world of nowThough it does not stop the hands of time from growing old, moving onForgetting… Continue reading Behind Us →

Posted in PoemsTagged behind, longing, love, memory, nostalgia
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