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  • moonchilde

    15Apr25 | 21.57 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250415.2157
    standing stones
    Photo by Suzanne Rushton on Unsplash
    drawn pale moon blind 
    reflected in black waters
    the mirror of which
    they did call you their
    beloved moonchilde

    do you remember?
    do you recall?
    before the wheel
    was sent spinning?

    knots and lace
    tarot and song
    petals on sheets and
    myrrh in our hair...

    come for me under night
    the one once called
    beloved moonchilde

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry

    filed under:

    poetry, writing

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  • heartstone

    15Apr25 | 13.03 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250415.1303
    Photo by Judy Beth Morris on Unsplash
    we lost those
    flowers in our hair
    when winter winds
    stole our breath
    and turned our
    hearts to stone

    i have been sitting
    for so long under
    apple trees waiting
    for fresh blossoms
    to fall

    tagged:

    poetry

    filed under:

    poetry

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  • Towards the Within: Over the Hills and Far Away

    15Apr25 | 11.17 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250415.1117
    The Mission circa 1986, found on internet (unknown copyright)

    Yesterday, I made a veiled reference to two songs on my mind at the time that I wrote Between Shadow. And while they do not exactly fit in with the criteria that I’ve set out for myself in this series (non-English, strike; new to me, strike, darkwave/coldwave/synthwave, strike), I thought that I might as well include them for readers so that the reference isn’t lost on them.

    (more…)

    tagged:

    mission, over thehills and far away, towards the within

    filed under:

    Towards the Within

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  • above tomorrow

    15Apr25 | 07.07 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250415.0707
    sunlight shining through old growth woods
    Photo by Simon Wilkes on Unsplash
    a hilltop kiss
    above old creek wending,
    tangled of vale

    all grains gone gold
    in autumn hours with
    a sun hung low

    burning within, without
    you whisper a secret
    for me to keep

    my head on your breasts,
    slumber come tomorrow

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry, the dreaming

    filed under:

    poetry

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  • Between Shadow

    14Apr25 | 12.40 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250414.1240

    I often wonder lately if it is my shadow drawing me into dance and embrace, if the million mile journey is here in my heart and conventional wisdom would say that I never need leave home. I give my shadow name, because a shadow should not remain without a name just because it refuses to share one.

    “Scáthach,” I whisper and it just laughs and twirls away. The mistress of shadows, in the castle of shadow, from an island far, far away. It is neither denial or affirmation, and I do not have the energy to play a neverending game of warmer and colder. If it is just my shadow, it would likely care less how it is named.

    But I need a name and so give it one.

    (more…)

    tagged:

    exploration

    filed under:

    prose

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