http://slow.writerscafe.org/Archback98 The original writings of author Archishman Rick en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1775986591 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 Celestial madness cracking reality, Riptide playing havoc in oscillating soul, God watches as if with silent brevity, As the cosmic rhapsody transpires in whole. Discrete attempts to a.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2955707/ Mistakes prevail on a throne of laze,As blunders persist in static haze,Flying away are the moments to grow,Running down pits are the skills you know.Bliss found in stagnancy's latibule,Blasphemy it is in floating bubble,Under fleeting cover of coping lies,Only be moving in fancy dis.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2931448/ On the vast expanses where ambitions dwell,Traversing champions make stories to tell,Expeditions meant to define their morrow,To unlock the roads that redeem their sorrow,Be in knightly moral or in vengeful whim,Destinations set to overcome all grim,On crossroads of hope where knights an.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2927430/ Bygone and benign wisdom for the wise,Served and laid coarse on a wizened platter,Unfamiliar although not in disguise,To the pundits but a trifling matter,Novel in ethics and naked in eyes,Who savour new sweet and scrap old bitter.Brilliance proclaimed and sailing on highs,Forbeara.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2924611/ The good old gone days With the carefree games That had played their mirth in me,I remember in traceThat returns in spades Down a journey meant to be.I would search through the winding woods,For the wishes that elude,I would stride far to ask for clues,Shiny dragon flying through.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2924609/ O born of the wide wilderness,Simple, aware and earnest man,With a granite heart of tenderness,In honour's light sure of what you can,Keep up errantry in knightly stand,On this assuring home-rooted land,Worry not about bestowing hands,On paths leading to bourgeois grands.Shaken est.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2903271/ A trillion thorns glare over your head,To clear what living space still remains, Your knightly shield lengthens the stoic stead,Delaying the moment of goring rains.The stand endures with unyielding spirit,Wielding the heat of a searing wave,Tempering the will to push the limit,Throug.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2902173/ In the fierce falcon's expectant nest,A fledgling had recently taken birth,But the lofty flight at mother's behest,Was thwarted by a rigid patch of dirt.Lasting dirt that had stayed on the bark,Remained to pass ancestral armoury,Prior to her naked aerial start,Wielding just parental .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2899009/ In the clutches of degrading drunken haze,Disoriented sinew threatens to break free,From the grips of civil physical space,Into the realm of unhinged and unruly glee.A place that sees not certified glamour,Nor judges the subject wanting to break free,The very crux of worldly misdemeano.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2888020/ I followed a lone flame in hopes of a beaconThat guided me over to your glistening grace,On the lonesome quest I took for knightly reason,I witnessed the wisdom light the way to each place.Within lies the essence of heartfelt compassion, That granted the steel will to thank my pain,A.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2882436/ Heather shining on the moorland with a radiant sky,Left behind in the quest of buried bonds and abrupt goodbyes,As the errant in armour dealt with testing twists and turns,The darkening path presented diminishing returns.Solemn strides made beyond domains beastly and human,To whose rhyth.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2881083/ Remembering the times of staunch and sincere training, In stoic reverence to the solemn code of conduct,Wounds light and dense always braved with chain-mail shining,The knight now rode by new hillscapes donning lasting struct.Ventures taking sudden turns where fresh trials would await,We.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2867221/ In the stretches between a distant crest and a jungle creek,A remote site hosting no apparent souls to greet,Set the stage one day for two lone strangers off to seek,Differing knowledge and adventure to unknowingly meet.One out to discover what scapes lay beyond the fresh hills,The other.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2860629/ Beneath all the unscrupulous whims of the world, Death by ego lurks deep down in the dark quarry, Futile efforts of rescue with every sweet word, Serve but dessert to those that feign feeling sorry.There lived a child with a silver spoon as they say, Headstrong father spending fortunes i.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2858981/ Borne by the worries of perennial shroud,Drifted up visions of ashes on a cloud,As charred effervescence of cognitive strain,Preparing for the downpour of turbid rain.I searched in the air for a potion to clear,The floating attachments gloomy yet so dear,Sifting through the shades to l.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2856258/ With a fading sunset by the banks of the Rhine,I watched the final cruise sail off for the day,From where I believed would make a fine spot to dine,Till the hour called on to depart for my way.I reckoned her flowing pith leaves much to discern,For a hermit spirit with transcendence to le.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2852665/ Do you wish to truly deceive,The source from which you still receive,You have found yourself caught in between,The urge to savour this rousing moment,And the longing to escape the lament.Rage flaming within lunges to bind,To forced clarity for false peace of mind,Leaving silhouette.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2849105/ With the spirit of honour to inculcate, Here sparks this urge to articulate, The worthy message wanting to be said, With the deific gust that roars overhead. The foundation that set us down to earth, Helped us realize the ground's worth, For only there could we first praise the sky,A.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2845156/ As I follow your etheric trail, Your essence I distinctly feel,My heart and mind did not derail,From the track which has kept you real.Within this journey your love remains,Through the seasons allowing to heal,From the scars of lasting injury, That roads filled with your longing left.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2841037/ Back to the wilderness I go,No further lessons left to take,From the land of smiles in sorrow, That would shine through us while awake.The hourglass we knew as see-through, Granted little temporal clue,Too in awe of smooth sand to realize,The boulders with which time really flies... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2839617/ Over mountain tops where frozen wings fly,Is where echoed a forgotten cry,Of worn out angels before they fell,After having known it all too well.Through every wrathful tempest and hail,Had they promised to fly and prevail,The dazzling glitter their wings would show,Yet concealed stai.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2836572/ I beheld a dream last night, There blew a relentless storm, The view was blurred in my sight,The smell was out of the norm.With an adventurous glide,I tried to see clearly, The mystery that wants to hide, In the stupor queerly. With a stinging deja vu, I pushed back to understand, .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2829483/ As I go silencing the self, At first I hear cries of defeat, As if drowning trying to delve,Into deep wells soaked in conceit. Then from deeper trenches echo, Whims that dare not come out of chains, Restrained too tightly to let go, Even though dampened by the rains.&nb.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2829482/ Bleak burdens hoped to fade,Away from a heavy heart, With a bursting beat's aid, Who wants to pump a fresh start. Wretched woes longed to fade, Away from a melting mind, In cool clarity's shade, A poise who wishes to find. Yet their frequent visits are rife,Letting you not embr.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2829481/ On my lone ventures to the cryptic depths,Of ghastly woods, ghoulish caves and dead ends,The shadows swept far as I walked tall,I watched if slivers of light could fall,Through crippling clutches I let ensnare,The prospect of sunk in liberation,In this harsh abyss is worth the dare.I turn to face th.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2821457/ As I stare at the distant hills,The frozen caps send waves of chills,But as they glitter in line,I perceive a warm embrace,Under the same sunlit shine,That once enlivened my days.As I gaze at the distant hills,Cold winds blow with uncanny shrills, But with a thunderous cry, A won.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2818035/ You have always wanted to fight, The battle that rages beyond, The thick veils of muscle and might, For reclaiming your essence wronged,Drifting apart, left to set right.You gladly retain the will to fight, Through ceaseless war soul encompassing,Flame burns hotter in storm to stay b.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2815510/ Built on the soil of ties and time,Were those sober shanties and shrines,Wafting echoes of hymn and rhyme,Still resound over lasting shine. Where fault and faith would intertwine,And the dusk would hear chatter and chimes,Scattered thoughts managed to align,Crude valuables worth every dime.&nbs.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2811723/ With tempered fist imbued with fury,  I travelled the paths of the world, Clenched I envisioned well fought glory, Never thwarted by empty word. They called me a brute inane and vain,What mindless triumph could I seek, I told them- Go train to punch through pain, Y.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2806748/ A sparkling gem once took a fall, Down where shadow lurks in gloom,There deep within it gave its all,To spread its glow through the room.Bearing the weight of worth inside,Resting below its smooth sheen,What unseen blemish could it hide,With wholesome lustre so clean.A handsome piece of brillia.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2804554/ Remote road to look forward to, A small stick points to your virtue, You wrote your name in a tale,Deep moral it must entail,As atoms plunge into chaos,Hot breath connects you to cosmos.Sinking soul lifts up afloat,For whom sails etheric boat.Wavy trip steering right from wrong, Re.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2792225/ Over down west lies the place,Where broken endings are trapped,Intention lent out some rays,To help me get the way mapped.Over down west was the place,Where I had erred in my ways,While I threw fists in dark rifts,Friends trailed off in distant space.Over down west went my thoughts,To which I listen.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2791918/ To go even further beyond, I was told to tap within, Search beneath flaws and fears that haunt, If I got lost to not give in, Nor give up the strength I want. A traveller with tempered hide, With harder guts that bind, With the layers that make up his ride, He delves for a route to.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2783313/ The walls that surround you in life,Are standing still with a dead stare, Gasping in your resentful strife, You attempt to push back for air. Your live ordeal to make them move, Never makes the bland blockades budge,You can't find the creative groove,Space your art can flow free .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2782040/ Let me tell you a little story,About a strangely symphonic place,The music would resound like worry,But I listened at leisurely pace.Learning the notes I made my own tune,Shaking the shackles tied in cages,Then the clanging of metal died soon,Down halls I had now stayed for ages.Was it through grace.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2779300/ I take my steps out to face the fact,The clouds are waiting to join the act,On meadows wide as the skies above,I tread with firm core virtues intact.Blood of distaste from damaged flesh hacked,Rests somewhere beneath this surface cracked,Water would not reach this forgotten gap,To cl.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2775879/ The traditionally wise, I respect your enterprise,Involving stern ritual,With faith that speaks mutual.But how is your holy fight, In cryptic depths of the night, When there is silent uprise, Where strugglers ponder demise.Values upheld to be true,Wager how fortunes ensue,Who.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2773255/ King of the fiery nation,Entrapped in thick layers of ice,Was it just scarce conviction,Or was his bright flame too nice.Wrestling weight off the shoulder,Singeing through the frozen cloak,Fire under cold smoulder,Could be given space to smoke.Rich burning scent would arise,Nostalgic vibe fueling ho.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2770988/ Trusted legacy left behind, Dropped on this untrusting timeline,Better see my wins in those games, Where I had borne various names. Dig your field in the meadows grey,Keep the badlands beyond at bay,You will know that past frets petty,The good maidens give smiles pretty.In al.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2766962/ I dash in at its golden shine,Sparkling waves I feel from this game,To give spectators a good time,I live to play and entertain. Bested at times in my dear game,Doubts and diffidence I do cause,But the fray is still mine to tame,And relish playing against odds.I grab all my chances to fight,Not.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2766244/ Hug your curse of damnation, Sway in the sick storm of life, Clutch the rope to salvation,Or plummet through pits of strife. Don't test my wits now mortal, I know of pain and penance, Your cry sounds as your hurdle, And your struggle never ends. You may draw the path you want, .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2762830/ Through every scramble and rummage,His findings did make him wiser,On their heap he found an image,Of the pile still growing higher.The art of belonging nowhere,He learned so his reach got wider,When bits were too heavy to bear,He let them flow through a rhymer.With every shade of life's image,He sc.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2758415/ A late, but worthy flight. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2482384/ My inspiration was sown, Back on a chilly grey land,After my dear seeds were blown, By winds that froze up my hand.My instincts led me to hold,Onto a growing new tree,Which I now climb to unfold,Sturdy shoots of destiny. With rising branches to find, I lose sight of the devil,A.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2470508/ When he was locked up in prison,Further misdeeds he connived,But being served as subhuman,Evoked his forgotten pride.When she became too glum minded,And thought she had lived enough,A childhood fragrance reminded,Of debt of forgotten love.When honoured warriors trembled,As darkness blinded their sig.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2464809/ They push you down rabbit holes,They show you stuff to surmise,They seek your intrinsic roles,Seeing through your candid eyes.With concepts they view as right,They let you familiarize,But they hide from open sight,Leaving you much to cognize.They even conflict in things,You wish to de.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2463465/ While being raised in the shed,Her hoof would shine in the sun,With burning hope it was bred,As she was learning to run.Trained in the instinct to dare,Her gallop flared up the wind,Her trainer's equestrian flair,Was spurred for races to win.Winning a bravely run race,Incurred her trainer's demise,T.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2462799/ Thrilled after earning my sword,So sharp and sparkling away,In every battle I fought,Gripping the blunt end I stayed.I swung my sword not in greed,But honour I always kept,But I sought notions to feed,Straying from trust and respect.Perfecting skill with my sword,With my prowess I revelled,Of m.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2462038/ Song lyrics http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2461537/ Lyrical piece. A sequel to 'Battle Trail'. Consists of two verses, followed by one chorus, again two verses, one chorus. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Archback98/2461531/