Category: poetry

  • casting runes — 13dec25

    thurisaz
    pierced sleeve hearts
    drive to pale hollow
    shadow, wraith and man

    dreaming verdant gardens
    there, in tanglewood
    desolation, an angel, iron sea

    thunder sparks the stone
    him in waiting

    A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.

    Today’s rune is thurisaz, which has several core translations: “thorn” or “giant”. The rune is often associated with pain or discomfort (often for an important transitional or transformative reason) or raw power that may be destructive. It is also considered protective, regenerative, and is frequently associated with women’s menstrual health.

    Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.

  • snow queen

    phantasm i the winter white
    flowing through empty
    fingers trace rail wood ruddy
    dust undisturbed to wake

    linger long hallways and
    snow queen her dwelling
    in the still failing faint,
    unseen her dark eyes

  • casting runes — 12dec25

    jera
    grey gone him raven
    fetching at flint
    festering storm winds

    grey gone him raven
    turning at stone
    her come kiss our winter

    grey gone him raven
    arthritic at tree
    curse to carve a snow

    tok


    tok



    tok

    A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.

    Today’s rune is jera. Jera is translated as “year”, and has also been translated as “harvest”. This rune is representative of cycles, the “wheel of the year”, the union of opposites (implied by the summer half of the year ending, winter half of the year beginning), balance, as well as cause/effect relationships.

    Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.

  • under

    stone blind the woodpost
    and standing antler pale
    we nightwing under

    falling into her lovi
    love, fallen in her
    let us dream a song-her
    let us fall within her home

    we heartdrum blackwing
    at edge lake drift snow
    we break our under

    lovi, we dream us,
    deep within her home

  • casting runes — 11dec25

    dagaz
    twilight torches
    push at shadows,
    hint at a dawn
    blanketed in mists & fog

    one hand beckons
    another wards away
    while the drifter
    goes on the drift
    in twilight once again

    A rune poem, based on an Elder Futhark rune selected at random.

    Today’s rune is dagaz, which has been translated as “daybreak”, that transitional moment between night and day. By extension, it might also be interpreted as “twilight” and is representative of liminality, transformation, the space between worlds, and suggests walking in both the material world and otherworld.

    Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.