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Cornucopia

July 13, 2020July 12, 2020 Mitchel David Ring2 Comments

Through lands of milk and honey he went, left behind all who watched him walk away to search for those in the shadows who still reach for the cornucopia...

Posted in PoemsTagged desert, poetry, promises, starlight, writing

Tallow

May 15, 2020May 15, 2020 Mitchel David Ring10 Comments

Hills against the wind press on into night over the peaks and away to the last descent...

Posted in PoemsTagged descent, ocean, poetry, starlight, storm, writing

By the Roadside

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

So many eyes peering out of the walls watching together by the roadside the passing dreamers going home...

Posted in PoemsTagged dreams, horror, poetry, roadside, starlight, writing

Prison of Sand

April 6, 2020April 5, 2020 Mitchel David Ring5 Comments

Slow moving shadows across a face of marble a chant to the sky frozen on lips of stone and within, a mind alive and burning...

Posted in PoemsTagged desert, poetry, shadows, starlight, wildfire, writing

Secret on Solar Wind

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

Away along night-shrouded streets one light in a sea of them trying to make out some message a secret on solar winds that never come...

Posted in PoemsTagged aurora, darkness, poetry, secret message, starlight, writing

Then Out Came the Rain

February 23, 2020February 23, 2020 Mitchel David Ring17 Comments

Yesterday I watched the world become storm-weathered bent but not broken beneath the weight of a painted sky the white glare across space and time...

Posted in PoemsTagged monster, origin, poetry, starlight, storm, writing

I Remember You and I

December 27, 2019December 27, 2019 Mitchel David Ring13 Comments

I remember you and I out wondering what ocean that was We opened a bottle, ready to toast death And out poured starlight with no end So we caught it in our glasses and drank...

Posted in PoemsTagged art, fantasy, memory, poetry, starlight, writing

Fabled One

November 18, 2019February 6, 2020 Mitchel David Ring14 Comments

For years I scaled the tower wall Daring for a chance to feel the iron summit And when I reached the top I found you Lounging in starlight and commenting on the weather...

Posted in PoemsTagged free verse, poetry, starlight, summit, tower, writing

View From the Highest Tower

October 29, 2019October 28, 2019 Mitchel David Ring7 Comments

From atop the highest tower in the city You can imagine that, far off on the horizon, The fires of the battlefield are just visible As reflections of stars uncaring on the world below...

Posted in PoemsTagged city, fantasy, free verse, poetry, starlight, war

More Ruins

February 7, 2019February 7, 2019 Mitchel David Ring1 Comment

Across a dim lit roomEye contact repeatedUnspoken words screamedWind in an abyssThe dark place we meet onceBeneath a wild-light moonAnd whispers of the space we shareBeyond something realBuried in ruins not yet builtA world we might have knownHad starlight fallen more kindly upon us

Posted in PoemsTagged beyond, imagine, ruined, ruins, silence, starlight, unspoken, whisper
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