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The Mountain Keep

for the ones who need a great deal of sky

High enough that the noise of the valley does not reach. Mist in the passes. The specific loneliness of altitude, which is not the same as ordinary loneliness. Poems for solitude, for freedom, for the kind of quiet that requires travelling to find.

8 poems for this room
M·007 Navy Nights

Couple o' Thoughts

"I wish I was a bird, soaring through the clouds light and dark, unconstrained by the technicalities of the societal laws."

M·003 The Ordinary Archive

Wires

"Rudimentary and often neglected, yet so prime akin to unstoppable time — connects the world like experiences that connect lives."

M·009 The Mountain Room

Liquid Divinity

"Reviving the morbid souls she touches and rejuvenating the entire hellish universe."

M·011 The Becoming Archive

She Called Me Her Own

"She isn't a city, she is a vast ocean of openness and belonging, taking us in one and all."

M·001 The Ordinary Archive

Steel Tumblers

"Worthy only for drinking basic water, but without which may lead to struggling at the life-death brink."

M·010 The Becoming Archive

Making Humanity Great Again

"Such is the power of a soul that for every misogynistic khal it births an even stronger Khaleesi."

M·008 The Becoming Archive

Love thy Rainbow

"When it's about love, why hate it — is it a sin to just love? Love and let others love."

M·006 The Becoming Archive

Female Dragon

"It is the patriarchal society that has inadvertently made her — the fiery, resilient, and indestructible woman."