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  • Cosmology

    24Oct25 | 13.30 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251024.1330

    I won’t go too deep down the rabbit hole here, but I’ve made it no secret that I have an interest in what I call “The Old Ways”. While no one knows for certain what practices existed in the neolithic, preagricultural period of history, I think there are some things that appear to be universal when observing or investigating nomadic peoples closer to the modern age and we can draw some conclusions based on that in conjunction with what we can tease out about a few thousand years back.

    The records of what was written contemporaneously or kept alive through oral tradition, however biased those records might be, sometimes point to a past that existed before those events were recorded.

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    tagged:

    cosmology, old irish, old ways, playing around

    filed under:

    thinking
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  • casting runes — 24oct25

    24Oct25 | 10.14 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251024.1014
    fehu
    fox fire, raven coal
    first flurries pale
    i offer crimson now
    to keep all relations, mine
    both safe and hale

    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
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  • rings

    24Oct25 | 07.46 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251024.0746
    Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash
    drained, i pour inside
    to sit within my pain
    —don't speak
    everything runs over
    and i cannot drink
    another drop

    instead, arthritic fingers chase
    wet rings on the hard

    tagged:

    poetry

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • wilderness

    23Oct25 | 13.39 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251023.1339
    come the sluagh nights soonly
    come they baying at your door
    sickle scythe under nightmoon
    a'reaving long before the dawn

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • Reads — “Flood” by Stephen Baxter

    23Oct25 | 09.07 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251023.0907

    I’m in the home stretch on this hard science-fiction novel of the peri-apocalypse and I think the biggest takeaway so far is…

    I’m not the target audience for science-fiction novels of the peri-apocalypse, hard science or otherwise.

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    tagged:

    reading

    filed under:

    reading
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  • at the wytching tree

    22Oct25 | 21.06 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251022.2106
    this chronic river
    flawing through
    is a stoning earned
    for the time cast
    down drunk at
    the wytching tree

    there is no care
    for these secrets
    that might be shared
    those left to die here
    in the wee hours down
    at the wytching tree

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry, rewilding

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • casting runes — 22oct25

    22Oct25 | 11.56 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251022.1156
    othala
    under the cloak
    the patterns burn
    all the more clear

    slip to the well
    and dive, emerge
    in the lands
    under the sea

    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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  • on the wind

    21Oct25 | 21.03 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251021.2103
    "throw your head away
    and let branches replace
    the empty left behind",
    said the acorn man

    so
    we gathered round
    and grew old,
    apple blossoms
    on the wind

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry, rewilding

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • New Moon

    21Oct25 | 14.41 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251021.1441

    I will drift the forest behind blind eyes with her, just as she came, here on the new moon this morn. A new year, come ten days on the loom, rides her night tresses too. Time to wrap root and gather low, gather deep, and gather below. Gather, then, and keen no more.

    If you knew me, you would understand — but I stand alone, unknown. I am wing and I am thorn, that is the best I can explain.

    But when she comes, we gather: wrapping root and pricking low.

    tagged:

    prose, rewilding

    filed under:

    prose
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  • to the turning within

    21Oct25 | 07.55 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251021.0755
    Photo by Trent Pickering on Unsplash
    as the nights slip
    cauldron to stone
    from wave to cold
    we turn to the
    turning within

    spirits on the wander
    gather 'round the flames
    dancing, spinning, yearning
    as they give to the
    turning within

    let all our debt burn away
    as we turn to the
    turning within

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry, rewilding

    filed under:

    poetry
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