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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

What the Mountains Knew

August 7, 2020August 6, 2020 Mitchel David Ring6 Comments

Feast on it, this fresh blood of a world slain, and know what beauty and what horror lived here where the fire burned brightest...

Posted in PoemsTagged fire, horror, music, poetry, story, writing

Mechanical Soul

July 14, 2020July 13, 2020 Mitchel David Ring11 Comments

Slip into the groove carved by glaciers before you and let the same song play out again and again and again...

Posted in PoemsTagged comfort, echoes, music, poetry, song, writing

Skies Over Eden

May 18, 2020May 17, 2020 Mitchel David Ring9 Comments

It seems like someone knew where the lines were drawn. At some point they must have known, only now they’re lost beneath life spilling over...

Posted in PoemsTagged music, night, poetry, silence, symphony, writing

Through Fire

April 24, 2020April 23, 2020 Mitchel David Ring14 Comments

In the desert under sandfalls a black box speaks in acid tongues...

Posted in PoemsTagged desert, electric, music, poetry, worship, writing

Gnawing

April 20, 2020April 19, 2020 Mitchel David Ring3 Comments

Gnawing at flesh down to the bone life blood extracted and dripping off fangs elixir of sun’s vision over cloud tops gliding over the world spinning away...

Posted in PoemsTagged ghosts, music, poetry, river, song, writing

Melody on the Wind

April 4, 2020April 3, 2020 Mitchel David Ring8 Comments

Walking a tightrope anchored to nothing only sheer force of will keeps the abyss at bay and always on the verge of giving in...

Posted in PoemsTagged abyss, chaos, music, poetry, song, writing

Variation on a Theme

March 7, 2020March 7, 2020 Mitchel David Ring8 Comments

When we came into the ballroom it was all ablaze Bells ringing overhead and echoing through the hall where a symphony once played variations on a theme...

Posted in PoemsTagged city, movies, music, ocean, poetry, writing

Fog Over Paradise

February 25, 2020February 24, 2020 Mitchel David Ring14 Comments

This is the mist that hangs over paradise across a land where music plays without a source...

Posted in PoemsTagged music, paradise, poetry, song, wander, writing

This Mournful Day

February 20, 2020February 19, 2020 Mitchel David Ring14 Comments

Out of the morning comes screaming light columns of fire fallen upon an empty land aching to consume, desperate for absolution...

Posted in PoemsTagged harvest, kingdom, music, poetry, war, writing

Matchstick Lullaby

February 15, 2020February 15, 2020 Mitchel David Ring5 Comments

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...

Posted in PoemsTagged fire, madness, masked, music, poetry, writing

An End to Exile

February 8, 2020February 8, 2020 Mitchel David Ring16 Comments

This hallucination tells me I’ve been here before something from the shadows creeping toward me, an old friend, or a lost spirit...

Posted in PoemsTagged music, ocean, poetry, song, sunset, writing

Along the Shore

February 1, 2020February 1, 2020 Mitchel David Ring6 Comments

Through the crowd a familiar face smiles and though it beckons me to sit at its table share a drink and play a hand of cards or two...

Posted in PoemsTagged beyond, darkness, horror, music, poetry, writing

Come Wander

January 31, 2020January 31, 2020 Mitchel David Ring8 Comments

Come wander with the cursed and broken through this realm of woodland music where melodies wind along paths to a ritual center...

Posted in PoemsTagged forest, music, poetry, wander, witch, writing

Further Down the Rabbit Hole

December 10, 2019February 6, 2020 Mitchel David Ring7 Comments

Somewhere along this way was a reason for going A vision we chased down the path into darkness Or a dream of what we would find On a blind foray into seething wilderness...

Posted in PoemsTagged dream, music, poetry, reason, vision, wilderness

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