http://slow.writerscafe.org/forgottenlight The original writings of author Alana Michele en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776017791 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15      The street was wide and sloped gently upward ahead of me. The Cobbestones crisscrossed in patterns as my bare and blistered feet slammed against them. I tucked my brown package deep into the curve of my arm. The threadbare scarf flapped at my face. 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The mines ran too low and the railroad moved its operation to Pine Grove. It remains a ghost town. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/613228/ This is the endThunder clings to the wind sliding across my skinLightning laces the sky aboveAn inky stainChoking pressureRaindrops dive from the shattering heavenI’ve lost my breatheThis is the endMy will cracklesDisintegrating Flesh and boneI let goThis is the end http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/537214/ Waves slip along the sandI feel your hand against my skinSapphires blazeI feel the stars fallingSpiraling and dancingIn your embrace                          &n.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/537209/ These wordsCaught up in the momentFloating                           byPeeled apart Phrase and     meaning Twisted…mutatedDe.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/537207/ Dancing on the path of cometsleaving footprints in the inky spaceno longer holding onthe descending beginsthe diamonds stretch outyour one last loveserenity faltersas memories crackleigniting firesin your mindNothing last but the hopethe hopethe hope that this will fadewalk.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/497890/ Smoky clouds glide inrage locked withinpushing against a darkening prisonveins leaks outthe blackened skysplits and cracklesas the lightning laces around it's foldspushing out against the grounddesperationfury takes formthunder echoes across the earthcurled up in my window.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/487646/ the sun has pales to a full moon's glowmountains rise up to shatter the skystreams of mist clashswirling around my legsnumb...broken...desperateI climbstone glides across marred skinscraping...tearingthe final scene draws closersurroundingscreaming in silencelist.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/476285/      Arthur charged forward, Excalibur waved in the sun. His knights raced on his heels, their bravery never failed in the heat of battle. A searing white light flared up before his eyes, blinding his troops momentarily. His white mount shied, and began dancing with nervous steps.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/473232/ For generations Our race has been mistaken for vampires. Those blood-thirsty carnivours have been made into legends with powers far greater than those they truly have. I am a Noble. I am powerful. I thought, immortal, and I have only one more year left t http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/473195/ ages pastleft with dustas a bell chimes in mourningcracks creep upconsuming ironand leave the stone to rainfires raze the earthsurrendering ash to the windsheeting the yellow sunspiders nimbly climbto spin their webbut leave behind a desperate reminderravens crowd and peckt.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/465684/ This is one of my older poems, though still one I like. It is in it's original state to show my developement from here to the free-style ones like Honey or Holding Time. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/465677/ this always changing patternseared across their mindskaleidoscope colorsshifting to black and whitestained redbalanced on the last strawa breathe thin hairtossed to the breezea careless crylost…againthe wandering of this pathyour footsteps imprintforever in the years.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/464620/ Strangling voiceThat cuts throughSpitting on words they’d saidBiting off the streams of thoughtBehind your lipsThey shout outJibes, taunting youChaining you downThe hope exhaustedForgetting the fightLetting their voiceStrangle out yoursThose thoughtsNo longer wordsF.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/464619/ Thoughts from and adrenaline rush http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/441126/ the picture is a oil pastel drawing of mine! http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/411734/  It’s the still of the silence and I’ll wonder if your still thereIt’s the motion of my heart breakingCause I can’t remember if you careThe void, invisible, behind my heartThe fading beatingI clutch at the empty airStriving to rememberBut remember .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/384880/  The threads are slowly forced awayThe years shredded byThe hope that lingered in the entanglementNothing but a childhood memoryThat safe houseNow hollow, infestedThe loving arms turned awaythey laid to rest their caresToo selfish to realizeThose child’s eyes tearThe.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/371467/  hope ribbons arounddust clasps streams of lightwindows to the galaxyflung                     open maybe it all comes to thisends too soonwhere dusk remainsfrozen  .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/371466/  They don’t know what haunts your dreamsNor do they try to pacify your feverish wakeThey watchThey wait A cold cruel laughter echoes against the firestoneThe night callsA howl of mourningYou lean against the wind watch the finality of their wordsIt bites .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/370856/  Holding timefolding forwardyou can't retractbroken promisesbroken frames time stranded....endingsomething you can't control flames flicker and flareigniting a web of  back to the beginningor endshadows leap and danceor fallall in the chance you .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/370854/ Silver moon risepulsing through midnight tidesdrifting and churningcontemplating mirrored secretsholding tight, we shall keep itSo to come throughat a wolf's mocking callunderstanding nothingbut that we won't fall  http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/370852/  Fears ripples down the iciclesin you headTruth echoes in the empty space your heartClutching onto hopeDoesn’t change what wasOr  what will beForward“farther up, further in”The Void growsTension strikesLightning in the skyTrust shattersBet.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/370848/ Humidity rises                                                &nb.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/forgottenlight/370845/