Category: poetry

briar tangled between

all that is owned is empty or
flaking rust from dull razors
drawing ley from
rope raw wrist to
hangman's etching,
all briar tangled between

03 Feb 26

casting runes — 03feb26
laguz
```
well met we at the sieidi
standing at watch of water
a hand change hand
a breath touch song
a call to crow new dawns
```
A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.
Today’s rune is laguz, which has a core meaning of “lake” and, by extension, may be interpreted as “river”, “ocean”, “sea”, “waterfall” or a general body of water. Some alternative interpretations define as “leek”. Following the more commonly accepted meaning, bodies of water were considered liminal spaces, a place between life and death or the threshold space between which spirit and substance resides. Laguz is often associated with feminine energies and journeys via water.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
03 Feb 26

one breath &

ache on more mantic &
less onto dreaming
hand pat knee thigh
tears eye entwine
a dollar thin love
cut from small bones 
touch a tear to tongue
& linger nectar sweet...

something stolen in
that silence between
one breath & the next

02 Feb 26

shadow to light

something dies

something arises

both will end
in blood and in tears
wetting chapped lips
sharp ends dragged
ragged across
it all

come close to hold
both to small and in mouse
let us gaze upon limeslit
scrim and heavy
past aged oak and envy
here is the tale of night
in where

something dies

something arises

something comes of
shadow to light

02 Feb 26

casting runes — 02feb26
hagalaz
```
in dream confusion
hands changing hands
eyes changing eyes
under a foxfire glow
in slipstream shift
along parallel rows
```
A rune poem, based on an Elder Futhark rune selected at random.
Today’s rune is hagalaz, which has a core meaning of “hail”, which was associated with potential, transformation, renewal and change; hail is imagined a seed from which change will arise. Hagalaz is also seen as representative of things beyond our control: a clash between fire and ice.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
02 Feb 26

slip away

chasing deaths head moths
through night gardens no more
and trying to catch falling stars 
ribbon cuts hands and so
i wrap myself in nadir's velvet
and slip away from shore

01 Feb 26

casting runes — 01feb26
uruz
```
cold drizzle falls
on stiff unyielding backs;
we endure as they
break their brittle metal
on our hardened resolve
```
A rune poem, based on an Elder Futhark rune selected at random.
Today’s rune is uruz. The rune is named after the now-extinct aurochs, a wild ox and has become associated with standing up to challenges, having both confidence and courage, stubborn tenacity, and boundless strength and health. Uruz is alternately associated with the more raw elements which include rain, primordial potential, and the slag/dross cast away during the making of iron.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
01 Feb 26

windshouting

broketooth me at
fore of the storm
windshouting with
flint scrapeskinned
fingers instead of words
shrieking hoar at
devils in suits

eyetaken & ragblind
stained of empty to hollow
unsure if any can hear
these ribbonrent screams

01 Feb 26

ossuary

dry rot these bones mine
stolen blind from the pile
etched & inked in
india & cinnabar to bleeding
to carve away all dreaming
to flint shave all song

a withered heart on
an ashen altar 
waiting for a glint
of flame

31 Jan 26

casting runes — 31jan26
ingwaz
```
there are times
all life is as dream
with every line
blurred between
when all i want to do
is sleep
```
A rune poem, based on an Elder Futhark rune selected at random.
Today’s rune is ingwaz, a rune named after the god Ing or Freyr. It is representative of a channeled energy or transformational process. It is also be seen as the male component of life, and therefore a symbol of sexual passions and the contributed “seed” of life (and, therefore, an aspect of one’s ancestral ørlǫg, or fate/destiny). Some interpretations conceive the rune as a symbol of darkness, solitude or dreaming.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
31 Jan 26