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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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  • 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.

    tagged:

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

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • 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

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • 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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    tagged:

    half-penny thoughts, writing about writing

    filed under:

    thinking
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  • Morning coffee

    29Oct25 | 20.08 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251029.2008
    Photo by Patrick Fore on Unsplash

    I don’t mean to be no trouble, but I am thinking of dyin.

    He sat across from me, sipping his percolated coffee with one or three too many fistfuls of coffee thrown in “for good measure”. If you were to believe the tall tales he tells, he uses an old sock to filter out the biggest of the grounds, but I think that’s probably bullshit. Or it might not be bullshit and I’m just hoping that it is at least a clean old sock he uses for the purpose.

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    tagged:

    flash fiction, prose, slice of life

    filed under:

    prose
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  • some are

    29Oct25 | 12.41 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251029.1241
    some are dying days
    drying as we curl
    within ourselves
    stained ruddy & dun
    wrinkled & yellowed
    under a low-hanging sun

    drip
    drip
    drip

    a life of rain gutter
    cast-offs mouldering
    the smell of bridges burning
    on crisp autumn air &
    some are dying days
    between the spaces
    us, drying, wytching alone
    inside an empty grove

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • feast

    28Oct25 | 21.05 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251028.2105
    to sit still on
    a windswept hill
    call myself stone,
    feast on her song from
    under the mound
    and slumber to
    while away the ages

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry

    filed under:

    poetry
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