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  • At Winterkiss

    15Dec25 | 14.06 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251215.1406
    conceptual portrait of hands with red thread
    Photo by Amirhossein Kianbakht on Pexels.com

    Lingering at midnights, the skin’s hollow drum thrumming with tension tugging taut the skin in anticipation as black coil fingernails trace leys down the soft flesh of an inner forearm. First right, then left, setting lines burning like fireflies down to the fingertips.

    Comes at winterkiss. “Are you ready,” said she. A nod with it begins, her kiss leaving every nerve burning alive.

    A furtive nod, afraid the spell will break and longing for the neverending. Miraculously, there is only long vibrations humming through, a guitar string of tension bound under flesh.

    All bells break, shatter the water’s razor edge and then begins a falling, a falling lingering a twilights all that remains is the skin’s hallow drumming while wondering at Elektra and if might this be that hunger she beheld.

    tagged:

    erotica?, flash fiction, nanofiction

    filed under:

    prose
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  • casting runes — 15dec25

    15Dec25 | 09.21 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251215.0921
    dagaz
    come on in twist, for
    a turn on the scythe
    to carve away thin
    to skate on black ice

    dance on night fires
    pierce ragged hearts
    ribbons to raw, to dream
    in everlasting kiss

    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
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  • under her lacuna moon

    14Dec25 | 19.09 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251214.1909
    come this solstice night
    & follow me dark river
    nadir kissed & ragged lips
    under her lacuna moon

    come this solstice night
    & twist shadow at murder
    cross silver ashen pale
    to carry her winter words

    come this solstice night
    we stand stone whores with
    blood marked cheeks
    under her lacuna moon

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry, rewilding

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • Towards the Within — Succulence by Foetus

    14Dec25 | 09.13 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251214.0913

    J.G. Thirlwell, also known as Clint Ruin, Frank Want, and Foetus (multiple variants of the name), among other pseudonyms is an Aussie musician that has been putting out albums of an experimental nature since the early 80s.

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    tagged:

    foetus, industrial, towards the within

    filed under:

    Towards the Within
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  • sudden as sunset

    13Dec25 | 16.46 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251213.1646
    as sudden as sunset
    the sadness descends
    with old blood weight
    on the pristine of snow
    she shifts inside, sighs
    finger draws the frosted panes

    tagged:

    melancholia, poetry

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • casting runes — 13dec25

    13Dec25 | 13.17 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251213.1317
    thurisaz
    pierced sleeve hearts
    drive to pale hollow
    shadow, wraith and man

    dreaming verdant gardens
    there, in tanglewood
    desolation, an angel, iron sea

    thunder sparks the stone
    him in waiting

    A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.

    Today’s rune is thurisaz, which has several core translations: “thorn” or “giant”. The rune is often associated with pain or discomfort (often for an important transitional or transformative reason) or raw power that may be destructive. It is also considered protective, regenerative, and is frequently associated with women’s menstrual health.

    Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.

    tagged:

    poetry, rewilding, rune, thurisaz

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • Half-penny thoughts — 13dec25

    13Dec25 | 07.30 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251213.0730

    Here’s a question for you. I won’t get much into a preamble because it is an oldie (but goodie) that is rattling around in my fat head for some reason or another and I’ve decided that I’m curious on the current state of affairs with opinions on the subject.

    What are your thoughts on the concept of “love at first sight”? Does such a thing even exist, or is it a romantic notions more akin to fantasy than reality? If it exists (for you), does it require the other party to reciprocate that love? Or does it still exist when the feeling is unilateral? What the heck is “love at first sight” anyway?

    As things are wont to do on these 1/2p posts, feel free to go off on your own tangents with your comments, just stick to the concept of “love at first sight”. I have my own thoughts but I am more interested in what you might have to say about it, no matter how mundane or outlandish those thoughts might be. For science! Or, just to satisfy my curiosity.

    And… Go!

    tagged:

    citizen “science”, half-penny thoughts, love at first sight

    filed under:

    thinking
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  • snow queen

    12Dec25 | 21.31 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251212.2131
    phantasm i the winter white
    flowing through empty
    fingers trace rail wood ruddy
    dust undisturbed to wake

    linger long hallways and
    snow queen her dwelling
    in the still failing faint,
    unseen her dark eyes

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry, rewilding

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • casting runes — 12dec25

    12Dec25 | 12.59 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251212.1259
    jera
    grey gone him raven
    fetching at flint
    festering storm winds

    grey gone him raven
    turning at stone
    her come kiss our winter

    grey gone him raven
    arthritic at tree
    curse to carve a snow

    tok


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    tok

    A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.

    Today’s rune is jera. Jera is translated as “year”, and has also been translated as “harvest”. This rune is representative of cycles, the “wheel of the year”, the union of opposites (implied by the summer half of the year ending, winter half of the year beginning), balance, as well as cause/effect relationships.

    Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.

    tagged:

    jera, poetry, rewilding, rune

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • Half-penny thoughts — 12dec25

    12Dec25 | 09.29 CST
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 251212.0929

    The only thing they feared more than failure was success.

    – appropriated variant of a common phrase, applied to The Replacements

    There are several variations of the above quote from across time; I’m not sure who said something like it originally. There are several people credited with saying something like it. It has been rattling around in my head since I saw it (again), although I cannot say exactly why.

    There’s something somewhat terribly romantic in that notion, isn’t there? That idea that failure is somehow more desirable than success, even if driven by a fear response.

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    tagged:

    failure, half-penny thoughts, quotes, success

    filed under:

    thinking
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