Author Paul! Lang

“The beast of the gulch is on the move. It hunts without reason. It kills without eating. Its prey is the sound of a beating heart. Within the shallows of the gulch dwells death.”

Book 9 of The Kingdom’s Disdain is available now!

  • A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Special Effects  Chest pain Is a constant  A wall between myself and the body There is a chronology that I am separated from as I hover  Above the flesh, noncommittal Like a prince who can’t make up his mind You’re falling into the water You’re stumbling…

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  • A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth Hemlock Kid  There is a comorbidity in the stars  Crossing the cosmos like The feathers of arrows aimed at heartless echoes of emptiness  The dark and the light serve to complement each other’s weaknesses  One without eyes  Another with hands that can feel but not hold …

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  • WD 39 “Arrogance”

    A poem inspired by the Muse of Cold Earth. Arrogance Asteroids come Asteroids go  And the planet turns the same way Always a little to the left like a door off its hinges  Unhinged from the stable oversoul  We are terrestrial  Pioneers of a frontier not our own  A life and story we did not…

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  • Three tales of terror from my cold inner shadow- 1 Once upon a time there was a DVD that had your name written on it. When I put it in the disc-drive, I saw a video of you, falling off a cliff. I’m mailing it to you. 2 Once upon a time, I came home…

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  • WD 37 “Meaning”

    A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth Meaning When to quote/when to begin A sad display of lethargy Crowning, complementarianism  I feigned astonished: the refrain of a princess Laid in high regard Naked, as far as intentions go, but expected Late The Lay of Luthien Barren from conception And I proposed my plan …

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  • Release Through Subjugation  An Existential Horror Story      You didn’t want to obey, you resisted. But you should not resist any humiliation. You should accept the injustice, since Abraxas wants to knead you into people like yeast into flour.” ~Jung’s Soul, The Black Books, Vol. VI, Page 217      The new vessel is you, and you aren’t…

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  • A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth Cryptocurrency A bleeding heart, at the cost of many souls Well shaken, stirred  Poured out and running over the banks of the river Tiber  Gleefully, I spring from my hiding place and promise you, the world Mine to give, mine to withhold  A hallucination of security…

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  • Warning, these stories come from the deep, dark shadow who lives in my subconscious, so beware. They are very very scary. I Once Upon a time, there was a guy who had no fingers. He tried to pick up a comb, but when he tried to look at his hair in the mirror, he realized…

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  • A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth Needles and Nails and Crowns of Thorn An inch to a sliver  For whom the bell tolls A splinter of disregard, buried deep below white skin  I believe in Christ, but sometimes I don’t know if he believes in me So, I blow on every wish…

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  • WD 32 “Romeo”

    A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth Romeo I scorn you Dressed in my best and all the evening stars  I turn you away like I’m turning from the straight and narrow path that leads to destruction  My heaving bones rattling like fists cracked against the crucible of rabbid dogma  Raising  Alighting  Lighting…

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  • A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth Snow Queen As there are No more reminders of  The things that made you whole  I will project myself in the snowfall Crowned in the dust  Ashes heaped and Cradled  Like a bride, never to be- I spread my limbs out in the snow and hope…

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