Category: poetry

  • under a blood moon

    i cut my lip while
    kissing your lazuli eyes
    under a blood moon
    last night, at least
    a decade ago
    it seems today

    bone pale, you laughed
    as you tossed your
    ebon hair away
    cast it to the stars to
    wash my cut away

    i only wished
    i had listened harder
    before i grew stone
    in sternum and
    memorized the how
    of that song on the
    breeze that night

  • marionette

    my scrimshaw heart
    ink etched and pale
    bound in rust wire
    wound around old nails

    tired for explanations
    eyes shutter-slip click - - -
    stop.

    then comes that
    marionette walk
    back to gods’ little
    alcove behind
    her priesthole
    waiting for another
    tick of the tock

  • casting runes — 22mar26

    othala
    we walk the high wire
    with all of our pasts trailing
    down old roads, old paths
    those frayed threads slipping
    through our fingertips
    twisting at the spindle

    A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.

    Today’s rune is othala, which has a core meaning of “heritage”, “inheritance” and “legacy”. These are all associated with home, kin, ancestors, stability and (in some interpretations) past lives or spiritual legacy.

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

  • carnival

    all eyes turn aglow at dusk
    casting shades on faces facing faces
    the song on the wind
    faint as the laughter
    at carnivals dark trading youth
    for hearts' deepest longing

  • casting runes — 20mar26

    raido
    the whisper-trace of song
    slendering on the breeze
    and crow — crow calls
    echoing slumber dreams
    held by dragonflies sunning

    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.

  • new moon skies

    it's easy to believe
    all the pretty little lies
    we whisper to our heart
    under cover of dark
    under the new moon skies

  • ankh

    just a taste
    a liver taste
    just a taste of you

    he takes a measure 
    and jackal laughs
    he drinks a life of you

  • casting runes — 19mar26

    sowilo
    a new shaft of illumination
    punches through
    this thick head, mine:

    some words given great weight
    are but feathers on
    the winds of expediency

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

    Today’s rune is sowilo, the sun. Sowilo is the source of enlightenment, for lighting the way and illumination. It is also called the “icebreaker” and gives power to an “attack”, ensuring success and/or prosperity. This rune also represents hope, the light at the end of a long darkness.

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

  • ash

    i dream in lapis and ebon
    pale and on cheeks high
    gliding on twixt and tween
    she phantoms deserts on night

  • trees fall down

    all our trees
    fall down
    matchsticks
    in summer
    stone storms
    come your
    burning fields
    and salted soil

    all our trees
    fall down
    catch them all