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casting runes — 11dec25
11Dec25 | 08.03 CST
© 2025
michael raven
c: 251211.0803
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.
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dagaz, poetry, rewilding, rune
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casting runes — 11dec25

c: 251210.1937

my mind is on the drift   and
i cannot find the will     to
moor it anymore,      perhaps
i will butterfly      instead

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unmoored

one last
10Dec25 | 14.12 CST
© 2025
michael raven
c: 251210.1412
Photo by Nahid Hatami on Unsplash
```
all i ask is for
just one last kiss
before dying
just that one last
chance at bliss
before i surrender
in your arms
```
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one last
casting runes — 10dec25
10Dec25 | 09.57 CST
© 2025
michael raven
c: 251210.0957
ingwaz
```
drifting hollowbone
to fill of the empty
fall back, fall back
to slender dark cold
salts slip of memory
```
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.
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ingwaz, poetry, rewilding, rune
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casting runes — 10dec25

of giving over

10Dec25 | 07.45 CST

michael raven

c: 251210.0745

shedding such skins as these is a
matter of embracing one's agonies
even when the fit has gone dodgy
back before time's mists rolled in

clinging sores and calloused regrets
linger in the tenderest of spaces, so
it is best, face set to grimace, to rip
and give over a hey, nonny, nonny

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ch-ch-ch-changes, dysthymia, letting go, poetry, rewilding

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of giving over

feast
09Dec25 | 21.11 CST
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michael raven
c: 251209.2111
```
i feel a drift
coming on &
may take the fade
on a spell;
nothing ever remains
for the feast
at me
```
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betwixt and between, melancholia, poetry
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poetry
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feast
Half-penny thoughts (pt 2) — 09dec25
09Dec25 | 14.08 CST
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michael raven
c: 251209.1408
In completely unrelated news…
Is it my imagination or are a lot of comments on folks’ blogs starting to look like bots/AI wrote them?
I was scrolling through a few comments on other sites and I’ve noticed that more of them are increasingly sound “off”. Commentors with this flavor of comments don’t dare add value to the conversations; they seem mostly to confirm and affirm. And the truly “weird” ones seem to miss the main topic of discussion entirely, often glomming onto something said in passing.
Maybe I’m just paranoid? Or a grump? Maybe I need more cigarettes.
In still other news:
I’minlovewiththegirlwhoworksatthestorewhereI’mnothingbutacustomer…

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ai master race, customer, half-penny thoughts, rant
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Half-penny thoughts (pt 2) — 09dec25
Half-penny thoughts — 09dec25
09Dec25 | 13.25 CST
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michael raven
c: 251209.1325
Odd day today: I found out an old bandmate’s spouse was found unresponsive this morning in bed. Cause of death, TBD. He just woke up next to her and she was no longer there. She was in her early 50s with no real history of chronic illness that I am aware of. He certainly seemed surprised by the news.
(more…)
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death, half-penny thoughts
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Half-penny thoughts — 09dec25
casting runes — 09dec25
09Dec25 | 09.57 CST
© 2025
michael raven
c: 251209.0957
pertho
```
pips & bones
stonecast & thrown
cutting jesses & tethers
winter the winds &
gone on the drift
```
A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.
Today’s rune is pertho, which has a disputed meaning and there is some indication that any proposed meanings might be based on a corrupted interpretation. The general consensus is that there is likely some relationship to ørlǫg (fate/destiny), luck/gambling or perhaps hidden knowledge.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
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pertho, poetry, rewilding, rune
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casting runes — 09dec25

narrow skin

09Dec25 | 07.53 CST

michael raven

c: 251209.0753

pulling back a pond's narrow skin
to delve shifting sediments below
finger scrying a drift back home
before our breathing runs and
backs drum tension again