Category: poetry

ripsaw

poplar crowing at height
a city's dirty snow
stretched out below me
leaning into tumble
for but to pray to fly—
a ripsaw shredding harsh
songs against the grain

13 Feb 26

casting runes — 12feb26
raido
```
gentle rocking, creaking wain
twilight tints storm eyes
returning to lost highways
alone but for dense, winter fog
```
A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.
Today’s rune is raido, which has been translated as “ride” and the implied “journey”. This may be spatial and literal in practice (a physical journey), or it may be more figurative (an inner/shamanic journey, i.e., útiseta). The rune is associated with cyclic motion and the movement of the sun. Some consider the journey represented by raido to be that of returning.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
12 Feb 26
casting runes — 11feb26
laguz
```
not only eddy
but river as well,
i meander her gardens
drinking in her scent
gathering sakura
with every twist & bend
```
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.
11 Feb 26

horror story

the horror is not being in
the thrall of a leannán sídhe

the horror is being not in
the thrall of a leannán sídhe

wraith wanderings,
stoney moors on the
crisp & hollow

11 Feb 26

casting runes — 10feb25
mannaz
```
we slip
sphere to sphere
time after time
touch to touch
while the wheel
keeps turning

i no longer can even
guess at the why...
```
A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.
Today’s rune is mannaz, a rune that translates to “man” in the sense of “humankind”. The rune is associated with family and the social order, and in trusting the intuitive process or seeing clearly — both from within and from without. Mannaz influences relationships of all kinds, including those of a romantic nature, and encourages compassion, for oneself as well as for others.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
10 Feb 26

drifts

dragonfly cattail sunning
in gentle summer winds
watching my lips trace
the curve of your calf
to the plop of a turtle
moving from sitting logs
to taking plunge for a swim

10 Feb 26

casting runes — 09feb25
dagaz
```
poling across
the lake of mists
following the scent
of apple blossoms
in seeking an
island's far shore
```
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.
09 Feb 26

torpor

barefoot and slumber
half under the covers
the other half wrapped
up in you

tangle and torpor
who cares for warm summers
while a'winter in the
afterglow of you

09 Feb 26

casting runes — 08feb26
jera
```
back to the begin
& been mistaken in
taking flint for fire

wraps & rags
wound 'round wrists & arms
time again to strike steel
for sparks
```
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.
08 Feb 26

absurd obscenity

why is it absurd to sing
of having a dream where
he kissed your knees?
i would kiss your feet just
to sing such a dream —
and everyone would find
my acts even more obscene

07 Feb 26