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  • Reads | The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, NK Jemisin

    05Nov25 | 07.32 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251105.0732

    One of the various books I am reading right now includes The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin. If you look out on the internet, there is quite a bit of high praise for her works, driven in part because she is a female and black award-winning writer of fantasy. When I saw a special on this collection for Kindle for something like $3 for the trilogy a few months ago, I jumped on it, figuring I had to see what all of the fuss was about. The collection normally retails at around $23 as an ebook, which is still a bargain, but I’m not above saving money where I can, especially when I haven’t read an author’s stories before.

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    Reads | The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, NK Jemisin

  • chimaera

    04Nov25 | 13.51 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251104.1351
    you grass your bare feet
    at the lowing of the sun
    crisp the burning red
    and dying golds,
    soles arched against
    the gathering of the cold
    and eyes gone grey
    for the wanting
    as eventide draws
    long shadows low

    tagged:

    longing, poetry

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    poetry

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    chimaera

  • Half-penny thoughts — 04nov25

    04Nov25 | 07.25 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251104.0725

    Except for romance novels (where it is, after all, the focus and intent), I feel sex scenes in fiction almost never add to the story and almost always pulls you out of the story as a reader.

    Or, maybe it is just me.

    It could very well be me.

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    half-penny thoughts, thinking too much, writing about writing

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    thinking

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    Half-penny thoughts — 04nov25

  • mere porn

    03Nov25 | 14.16 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251103.1416
    in succumbing to the circlejerk

    and inoculated in our pleasuredome

    we have lost all that's real

    the nausea seasons every meal and

    our bedmates, a chalked parkside fuck you

    and in-between the constant commercial breaks

    ever promise made: mere porn

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    melancholia, poetry

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    poetry

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  • casting runes — 03nov25

    03Nov25 | 08.39 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251103.0839
    othala
    i return to sieidi,
    for that is of which
    i am born.

    between bear & crow
    river runs in stillness
    my long hair windblown
    as the old man sweeps
    out a home

    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.

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    othala, poetry, rewilding, rune

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    poetry

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    casting runes — 03nov25

  • underground you

    02Nov25 | 10.11 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251102.1011
    i slipstream wait
    the skies grey move
    shifting, a spell
    tangled in
    a game of you

    slip down corridors
    stone and steel
    dragging sparks
    bright stars in an
    underground you

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    poetry

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  • unwording

    01Nov25 | 15.28 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251101.1528
    wander the wastelands drift
    heavy steel the skies in ash
    trying to find a pale behind
    a belonging of place

    ever the outsides drone
    on and on into dusk falling
    gods know i have tried…

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    poetry

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    poetry

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    unwording

  • samhain rune cast — 2025

    31Oct25 | 07.44 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251031.0744
    pertho
    berkana
    ehwaz
    the bonecup rattles,
    counting pips on twilight—
    what are the chances?

    a raven dances crossroads
    marked with menhir
    waiting for dice to show
    best the path through
    gathering snow

    under the stone
    frames the door, her voice
    singsonging of below

    Each rune above is linked to my rune page on sceadugenga.com and can be clicked for a variety of information associated with each.

    Happy new year.

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    berkana, betwixt and between, ehwaz, pertho, poetry, rewilding, rune, samhain

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    samhain rune cast — 2025

  • new year

    31Oct25 | 07.04 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251031.0704
    i will rest my weary
    in her headwaters
    on her night of nights
    letting her wash over
    in my forest clean

    given as, i seek
    to stay a' dreaming
    a worn out husk
    burning from the inside
    warmed of her
    grim embrace

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry, rewilding

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    poetry

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    new year

  • Half-penny Thoughts — 30oct25

    30Oct25 | 07.50 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251030.0750

    A couple of thinks on the cheap have occurred to me over the past few days.

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    half-penny thoughts, writing about writing

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    thinking

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    Half-penny Thoughts — 30oct25

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