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  • Campfire Sessions — 06 apr 25

    06Apr25 | 20.18 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250406.2018
    Campfire
    Photo by Ville Palmu on Unsplash

    It’s time to be off, they said.

    There was not much left of the once-long stick I had been using to poke at the dying embers for a spell. Each time I poked, bright orange sparks would jump from the rippling ruby coals. For no particular reason, doing so brought me a flash of joy.

    I have always been a firebug. Maybe that was why.

    I turned to Raven, their feathers ruddy in the glow of the remains of my campfire. Off where? I asked.

    You know, they said.

    (more…)

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, birth, campfire sessions, Raven, rewilding, weald

    filed under:

    prose, writing

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    Campfire Sessions — 06 apr 25

  • inner

    06Apr25 | 14.31 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250406.1431
    sage bundles in a pot for smudging
    Photo by Ginny Rose Stewart on Unsplash
    we crawled into
    innerworld
    on our hands &
    knees

    you kissed me
    otherside &
    promised me all
    night

    sage was a'drifting
    stones were shifting &
    flames burned to
    embers

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry

    filed under:

    poetry, writing

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    inner

  • Songlet — 06 apr 25

    06Apr25 | 11.35 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250406.1135

    Listening to some of the post-punk/darkwave/synthwave music I’ve been listening to these past few weeks has inspired me not only to pick up the bass once again, but to get back to playing around with some songwriting and DAW recording as well. [DAW = digital audio workshop, a home studio option for the modern era].

    Picture of an audio soundboard
    Photo by Anthony Roberts on Unsplash

    As I was discussing this direction in comments with Chris, I began to think that it might be interesting to at least some of you to share with folks the general thought process and progression of how some of us — or at least I do — get about to writing music.

    (more…)

    tagged:

    darkwave, DAW, experimentation, music, post punk, songlets, songs of two minutes or less, synthwave

    filed under:

    listening, songlets

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    Songlet — 06 apr 25

  • outsider

    05Apr25 | 21.35 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250405.2135
    i am the outsider drifting
    slipstream shifting
    through & through
    a directionless beggar
    desert rags wrapped
    red around wrists &
    broken at my mouth
    open fractured to speak
    i croak & rasping
    thirsty for the dawn

    tagged:

    poetry

    filed under:

    poetry, writing

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    outsider

  • games

    05Apr25 | 16.33 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250405.1633
    Image of a writing journal and a pencil.
    Photo by Dariusz Sankowski on Unsplash
    always unknowing & unreadable
    her eyes play from the shadows
    teasing & taunting

    forgive me, i am so tired
    of these games

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry, the dreaming

    filed under:

    poetry, writing

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    games

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