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  • The Dust Settles, But Not The Moss

    26Mar25 | 20.40 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250326.2040

    This morning I was able to identify the buggy element of the commenting system and now things seem to have settled down on the site in that respect. Or, rather, comments and WordPress.com integration have been behaving as expected all day and I’ll count that as a win.

    (more…)

    tagged:

    blog, community, forum, music exploration, poetry, rewilding, site details, thank you, towards the within, writers

    filed under:

    junk drawer

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    The Dust Settles, But Not The Moss

  • the fool

    26Mar25 | 11.23 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250326.1123
    a path in the middle of a dark forest
    Photo by Wes Hicks on Unsplash
    finally, a step into tomorrow
    i shook my head, no no no
    we won't go back to those
    we won't go back

    for here is alone in the
    beat of the drum of the
    heart of the wood in the
    dreaming of the years
    now

    shadowfall & the
    autumn decay bursting
    forth underboot scenting
    my way home

    tagged:

    a walk in the woods, betwixt and between, poetry

    filed under:

    poetry, writing

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    the fool

  • Site Commenting Update

    25Mar25 | 20.41 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250325.2041

    First off, I want to thank everyone for their apparently infinite patience as I try to debug the site since it went live just under a week ago. I appreciate everyone’s understanding and the helpful hands I’ve been getting from all across the globe.

    You are the real heroes here.

    (more…)

    tagged:

    all apologies, commenting bugs, site details

    filed under:

    junk drawer

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    Site Commenting Update

  • Towards the Within — If I Had a Heart

    25Mar25 | 14.04 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250325.1404
    pexels-photo-4480527.jpeg
    Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com

    As I described in my last post for this series, Towards the Within, I have decided to do a bit of discovery when it comes to music and report back what I found on that adventure. Briefly: I seeded a “radio station” on YouTube Music with several darkwave and experimental folk bands, set it at high discovery and high artist variety. I tried to give preference in my “seed” to non-English-speaking artists to drive the algorithm in that direction. And then, I set off a darkened path and into the labyrinthine woods I had just created.

    Did I find something interesting in the deep woods? Or did the monsters eat me?

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    tagged:

    darkwave, fever ray, music exploration, post punk, tal barr, towards the within

    filed under:

    Towards the Within

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    Towards the Within — If I Had a Heart

  • burning inside

    24Mar25 | 21.29 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250324.2129
    Campfire
    Photo by Ville Palmu on Unsplash
    burning inside and writhing
    with their words spoken
    during long ghost nights
    carried in smoke on the wind
    hey hey sang they hey hey
    medicine for the longing within

    passing white sage silver
    on the circle all around
    the pounding of our hearts
    the bellows of our winds and
    the burning inside and
    the burning within

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry

    filed under:

    poetry

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