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  • otherside

    29Jun25 | 09.23 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250629.0923
    Photo by Harald Pliessnig on Unsplash
    i wonder at the fog that
    obscures all thinking
    dancing ghosts away
    from dream

    all the lies, all the lies of me
    i feel a new sobriety
    washing over

    another wall showing cracks?
    what awaits the otherside?

    tagged:

    poetry, rewilding

    filed under:

    poetry, writing
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  • decline

    28Jun25 | 21.31 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250628.2131
    Photo by Greg Johnson on Unsplash
    and no, i think i won't
    i'll pass, if you please
    disengage from your rage
    recuse my everything
    because, as they say:
    i am so tired

    (insert back of hand
    to forehead here)

    waiting for the
    first frost already and
    summer's solstice just come...

    tagged:

    poetry

    filed under:

    poetry, writing
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  • inertia

    28Jun25 | 20.14 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250628.2014
    Photo by Ronin on Unsplash
    to river our walks
    through autumn, i
    hold the by and bye
    between the burning
    and the dry decay
    brown to crisp underfoot
    talking the nonsense
    of water twisting eddy
    burble a river on roam
    ever youth in motion
    a kiss of inertia
    a kiss to november's
    home

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry

    filed under:

    poetry, writing
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  • imagined

    28Jun25 | 13.07 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250628.1307
    Photo by Nicole Elliott on Unsplash
    it is not so easy
    to cull away but
    as leaves give
    way to crimson
    my autumn seems
    to have come

    unicorn chasing is
    stuff best done in the
    springtime of youth

    worn stone stairs lead
    to mountaintops
    cast in mists
    cast in fogs

    i always imagined
    something more
    than this

    tagged:

    poetry

    filed under:

    poetry, writing
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  • in your pale

    27Jun25 | 20.56 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250627.2056
    Photo by Dana on Unsplash
    seeking switches
    to flip to the off
    turn down the bed
    tune out the head
    let the phantoms
    have their haunt

    whisper the winds
    my name as the same and
    yours the forever unknown
    and i don’t care
    what you’re called
    just haunt my halls
    in your pale

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry

    filed under:

    poetry, writing
    2 comments on in your pale

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  • become of long

    27Jun25 | 14.16 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250627.1416
    Photo by Kevin Hessey on Unsplash
    given fresh rain fallen
    a sanctuary in grey
    wash away the stain

    desire burns fleeting
    quench all heat away
    embrace river flowing

    puddle rings watercolor
    mirrors of granite sky
    i become of long man
    i become of long

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry

    filed under:

    poetry, writing
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  • tossing a rune — 27jun25

    27Jun25 | 10.58 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250627.1058
    sowilo
    the haze of frost
    clouding vision
    melts away —
    casting sharper shadows
    in the brightness of day

    Another rune poem of mine, where the rune is selected at random.

    Today’s rune is sowilo, which has a core meaning “sun”. The sun is representative of the source of life, illumination and power.

    tagged:

    poetry, rewilding, rune, sowilo

    filed under:

    poetry, writing
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  • kissing over café bars

    27Jun25 | 08.13 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250627.0813
    Photo by Doug Greenman on Unsplash
    kissing over café bars
    you wipe lipstick from
    my lips with your thumb

    leaning over
    hungry for more
    you chide and say
    just a taste because
    patience is important
    even in the dream

    tagged:

    poetry, the dreaming

    filed under:

    poetry, writing
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  • enjoin me

    26Jun25 | 20.44 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250626.2044
    a path in the middle of a dark forest
    Photo by Wes Hicks on Unsplash
    the troubles keep and
    none of them mine
    there is no time to cry

    i step to oak & slender
    the place within
    i could dream all day &
    all night in the within

    flint, cuts skin, bone
    to drag me of wood
    spell some silence
    for me, one who sees
    enjoin me to whole

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry, rewilding

    filed under:

    poetry, writing
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  • fade away

    26Jun25 | 08.48 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250626.0848
    Photo by Abishek on Unsplash
    silting down thick
    the layers me put
    under the wave

    quenching flame
    give steel to rust
    casting new

    i rain i rain
    i rain i rain
    under granite
    skies, i rain

    keep me in
    your memory
    but then let me
    fade away

    tagged:

    poetry, rewilding

    filed under:

    poetry, writing
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