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  • 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.

    (more…)

    tagged:

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

    filed under:

    thinking

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  • 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

    tagged:

    melancholia, poetry

    filed under:

    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.


    tagged:

    othala, poetry, rewilding, rune

    filed under:

    poetry

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  • 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

    tagged:

    poetry

    filed under:

    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…

    tagged:

    poetry

    filed under:

    poetry

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