Author: michael raven

  • to hills

    Photo by Connor DeMott on Unsplash
    a fog carries that
    pale lost to white
    steel rails to hills
    raven calling

    she brings children
    in skirts she gathers
    staring straight she
    glides barefoot stride
    her night velvet
    whispered crushing

    hand out, calling
    my voice hoarse
    in the fading forth
  • Thoughts on rewilding — 10 apr 25

    a path in the middle of a dark forest
    Photo by Wes Hicks on Unsplash

    It often feels pretentious to talk about my thoughts around my path towards rewilding. I mean, who do I think I am to turn away from the norms and follow the trail deeper into the woods?

    It is also difficult to do so because I have rejected most of the labels people use.

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  • blood before

    standing stones
    Photo by Suzanne Rushton on Unsplash
    i river waiting for
    flutter you feather
    polishing stone for
    night long coming
    wrap hair ebon
    undress in longing
    so sacrifice to own
    to you of you and
    lay out autumn
    there between
    the river bare
    to take me pale
    before the blood
    before
  • Towards the Within — It Won’t Hurt

    Here’s another of my stumble-on bands while listening to music discovery nominally inspired by a resurgence of 1980’s-era post punk and bands like Kælan Mikla, Mochat Doma, as in addition to older bands such as Dead Can Dance.

    Another criteria for inclusion is a preference for bands that use a language other than English for their songs, although that is not an absolute requirement. I am more interested in discovering music that I would not have otherwise encountered save for going where the labyrinth leads me.

    If you want to listen to other bands that I’ve found, you can follow my YouTube station (all ad revenue goes to the evil overlords, not me), or hit play in the embed at the bottom of this post.

    I did not expect it to take me to Аметистовые Вены (translation: Amethyst Veins), a Russian band (specifically, from Naberezhnye Chelny) that popped up in my feed.

    Аметистовые Вены, photo used under fair use principles; all copyrights are retained by the original holder.
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  • stormriders

    Photo by Sina Bakhtiari on Unsplash
    when at wanders
    listen moon
    listen night
    crossroads gather
    feather swoon
    feather flight
    we are we are
    we are of
    stormriders
    tonight