ravensweald

casting runes — 04dec25
04Dec25 | 09.28 CST
© 2025
michael raven
c: 251204.0928
fehu
```
i traded too much away
for comfort's sake—
i would give back
most of my gold
in exchange for
a simple block of wood
```
A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.
Today’s rune is fehu, which has a core meaning of “cattle” or a more generalized “livestock”, which was a representation of personal wealth or earned prosperity. Sometimes luck played a role. Wealth and prosperity was valued, but was looked down upon when material accumulation appeared to be excessive, greedy, miserly or turned to hoarding, especially when those around you were lacking.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
tagged:
fehu, poetry, rewilding, rune
filed under:
poetry
8 comments on casting runes — 04dec25
To like, click comments or:
casting runes — 04dec25
red red wine
03Dec25 | 19.29 CST
© 2025
michael raven
c: 251203.1929
Photo by Andriyko Podilnyk on Unsplash
```
on the drift
i close my eyes
beckon & recall
raw chapped lips
stained red red wine
yours, mine, both—
who could tell?

in thrall;
that was the day
of my dying
```
tagged:
poetry
filed under:
poetry
5 comments on red red wine
To like, click comments or:
red red wine
casting runes — 03dec25
03Dec25 | 18.14 CST
© 2025
michael raven
c: 251203.1814
gebo
```
for what seems a forever
i have made myself a gift,
ready to trade this chilled cheek
for a summer's kiss from you
```
A rune poem, based on an Elder Futhark rune selected at random.
Today’s rune is gebo, which has a core meaning of “gift”. This relates to all forms of reciprocity: transaction, generosity, hospitality and sacrifice (in the sense of giving up something). It may also mean offering up a talent or skill, and may suggest a synergistic, possibly romantic, relationship.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
tagged:
gebo, poetry, rewilding, rune
filed under:
poetry
4 comments on casting runes — 03dec25
To like, click comments or:
casting runes — 03dec25

c: 251203.0920

Campfire — *Photo by Ville Palmu on Unsplash*

another tangle of winter
at slick crags open water
i shed these bones for you

chisel shadow, wax & stain
heartbeat heavy slow
ancestors flow on whisper

gather flame of heartwood
collect forgotten songs
here raises laughter
here we belong

tagged:

betwixt and between, poetry, rewilding

filed under:

poetry

14 comments

To like, click comments or:

another tangle

catscratch
02Dec25 | 14.04 CST
© 2025
michael raven
c: 251202.1404
```
with skin kissed in rope burns
and pricked of thorns
sheets stained of summer and
whispers screamed at forlorn

all barbed with catscratch
do you desire anything more?
```
tagged:
melancholia, poetry
filed under:
poetry
2 comments on catscratch
To like, click comments or:
catscratch
casting runes — 02dec25
02Dec25 | 11.19 CST
© 2025
michael raven
c: 251202.1119
dagaz
```
drawn to earth
more than that just under
ragged-hewn fingernails
scratching at blood soil—
toss aside your frame-drum
and follow me down
```
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
No comments on casting runes — 02dec25
To like, click comments or:
casting runes — 02dec25
Half-penny thoughts — 02dec25
02Dec25 | 09.19 CST
© 2025
michael raven
c: 251202.0919
Social network “suicide” is a strange kind of experience when you are doing it, not as a reactionary thing, but as a fully thought-out process with a staged approach.
(more…)
tagged:
half-penny thoughts, social network deaths
filed under:
thinking
24 comments on Half-penny thoughts — 02dec25
To like, click comments or:
Half-penny thoughts — 02dec25
some kind of old
01Dec25 | 21.19 CST
© 2025
michael raven
c: 251201.2119
```
getting old is when
you've lived too long
after folks once laid odds
on if you'd see
twenty-nine

it feels like
some kind of old
a very steel grey 
kind of day
```
tagged:
poetry
filed under:
poetry
5 comments on some kind of old
To like, click comments or:
some kind of old

with pictures

01Dec25 | 13.22 CST

michael raven

c: 251201.1322

i kiss you with pictures
windswept and forlorn
with winter racing across
the unfrozen pond
everything stained scarlet,
pierced pale & bruised black
pricking skin in hoar
to bring bright on pink

i kiss you in pictures
burning as flame draws fire
burrow deep, now
under the root's tangle
bury me deep inside
& draw me ever down

tagged:

betwixt and between, poetry

filed under:

poetry

4 comments

To like, click comments or:

with pictures

casting runes — 01dec25
01Dec25 | 11.16 CST
© 2025
michael raven
c: 251201.1116
mannaz
```
flint to flesh
scars to wash the blind
she waits on blood to briar
to staunch the stinging
with her coldstone kiss
```
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.
tagged:
mannaz, poetry, rewilding, rune
filed under:
poetry
15 comments on casting runes — 01dec25
To like, click comments or:
casting runes — 01dec25