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  • h…-penny thoughts — 16dec25

    16Dec25 | 13.19 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251216.1319

    Dropping hints.

    Again, my head is off in the outer limits where the ozone thins and this might be one of those weirdo (I’m a creep/I’m a weirdo) kinds of subjects to try and hold a discussion around, but I have my personal reasons for asking about people and communicating in hints.

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    tagged:

    direct vs indirect speaking, half-penny thoughts, hints, pathetique, sad attempts at humor

    filed under:

    thinking
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  • simple things:

    16Dec25 | 11.24 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251216.1124
    simple things:
    four different ways
    skies and stone
    above and below
    and those places
    left in between

    black sheen brow
    crossed of blood
    cut ashen
    i turn my
    flint head away

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry, rewilding

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • casting runes — 16dec25

    16Dec25 | 09.21 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251216.0921
    kenaz
    after pasts go to pyre
    burning the longest night
    a brand to sear away
    open sores left behind

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

    Today’s rune is kenaz, which has been translated as both “torch” and “ulcer” . It is conceived as symbolic of flame, which is the illuminated creativity as well as the source of purification/healing/cautery. Fire is a a source of transformation and unmaking as well as heat, passion and light. As an ulcer, kenaz can be associated with a fever or inflammation, perhaps a wound which requires healing.

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

    tagged:

    kenaz, poetry, rewilding, rune

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • Towards the Within — Sólstöður, Kælan Mikla

    15Dec25 | 22.32 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251215.2232

    A little Icelandic darkwave in honor of the upcoming solstice, perhaps?

    Á sólstöðum í svartnætti tunglið geislum grætur
    Vetrarnótt; við erum þínar sönnu svörtu dætur

    Winter solstice in the black night
    the moon cries its beams
    Winter night; we are your true dark daughters

    Of course you may have some, my darkling dearies. Enjoy.

    tagged:

    darkwave, icelandic, kælan mikla, solstice, towards the within

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    Towards the Within
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  • val sans retour

    15Dec25 | 20.03 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251215.2003
    Photo by shahin khalaji on Unsplash
    given to pressing petals of
    her fragrant valley sheltered
    drinking her butterfly wine
    grown over gone under
    lingers myrrh sweet inside
    slumber her summer slopes
    tracing dew along her lines...
    who would wish for return
    after lingering this vale?

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry, rewilding

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • At Winterkiss

    15Dec25 | 14.06 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251215.1406
    conceptual portrait of hands with red thread
    Photo by Amirhossein Kianbakht on Pexels.com

    Lingering at midnights, the skin’s hollow drum thrumming with tension tugging taut the skin in anticipation as black coil fingernails trace leys down the soft flesh of an inner forearm. First right, then left, setting lines burning like fireflies down to the fingertips.

    Comes at winterkiss. “Are you ready,” said she. A nod with it begins, her kiss leaving every nerve burning alive.

    A furtive nod, afraid the spell will break and longing for the neverending. Miraculously, there is only long vibrations humming through, a guitar string of tension bound under flesh.

    All bells break, shatter the water’s razor edge and then begins a falling, a falling lingering a twilights all that remains is the skin’s hallow drumming while wondering at Elektra and if might this be that hunger she beheld.

    tagged:

    erotica?, flash fiction, nanofiction

    filed under:

    prose
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  • casting runes — 15dec25

    15Dec25 | 09.21 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251215.0921
    dagaz
    come on in twist, for
    a turn on the scythe
    to carve away thin
    to skate on black ice

    dance on night fires
    pierce ragged hearts
    ribbons to raw, to dream
    in everlasting kiss

    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.

    tagged:

    dagaz, poetry, rewilding, rune

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • under her lacuna moon

    14Dec25 | 19.09 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251214.1909
    come this solstice night
    & follow me dark river
    nadir kissed & ragged lips
    under her lacuna moon

    come this solstice night
    & twist shadow at murder
    cross silver ashen pale
    to carry her winter words

    come this solstice night
    we stand stone whores with
    blood marked cheeks
    under her lacuna moon

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry, rewilding

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • Towards the Within — Succulence by Foetus

    14Dec25 | 09.13 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251214.0913

    J.G. Thirlwell, also known as Clint Ruin, Frank Want, and Foetus (multiple variants of the name), among other pseudonyms is an Aussie musician that has been putting out albums of an experimental nature since the early 80s.

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    tagged:

    foetus, industrial, towards the within

    filed under:

    Towards the Within
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  • sudden as sunset

    13Dec25 | 16.46 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251213.1646
    as sudden as sunset
    the sadness descends
    with old blood weight
    on the pristine of snow
    she shifts inside, sighs
    finger draws the frosted panes

    tagged:

    melancholia, poetry

    filed under:

    poetry
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