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half-penny thoughts — 05jan26
05Jan26 | 12.59 CST
© 2026
michael raven
c: 260105.1259
I’m probably overlooking quite a few artists, but it sure seems like the vast majority of them these days are very serious about their music.
That’s not to say that I didn’t listen to and work with musicians in the past who were very serious about their music, but it seemed there were more folks in earlier eras who were a lot less serious about it. Or, they were serious musician who leaned into satire instead of saying things like, “We are artistes, not baboons. Go away and baboon elsewhere.”
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half-penny thoughts, music, sad attempts at humor
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listening, thinking
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half-penny thoughts — 05jan26

c: 260105.0945

i have given to sacrifice my sleeve
it grows cold with naught pinned
          nor sewn
and i have not much need of it
          anymore
          anyway

having gone to mud
ravens scrimshaw my bone
a stern reminder of place
bound in baling cut flesh
          deep

do you recall lace curtains'
gentle ruffle of summer breeze?

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poetry, rewilding

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vagary

the story ends

04Jan26 | 19.49 CST

michael raven

c: 260104.1949

this is how the story ends
with whispers & turnaway eyes
under midnight skies
they shuffle from shade to fade
forgetting color & tone
given to ash on tongue
lacking substance at touch
howling as we slip away

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betwixt and between, poetry

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the story ends

casting runes — 04jan26
04Jan26 | 13.54 CST
© 2026
michael raven
c: 260104.1354
nauthiz
```
a disused, crooked trail
leading from the main

few choose this path
due to hardship, harry & thorn
but crows beckon, call—
it is also the path
of greater reward
```
A rune poem, based on an Elder Futhark rune selected at random.
Today’s rune is nauth i z, which has a core meaning of “need”. Alternative translations have been “hardship” or “constraint”. Among other interpretations, nauthiz is seen as a indicative of a transition or transformation, a period of learning or strengthening of resilience, lacking, change, and impermanence — inclusive of other related concepts.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
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nauthiz, poetry, rewilding, rune
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casting runes — 04jan26
casting runes — 03jan26
03Jan26 | 14.07 CST
© 2026
michael raven
c: 260103.1407
isaz
```
riverstone under ice
carved of water, air between
linger now, maple leaf
but unfrozen come spring
```
A rune poem, based on an Elder Futhark rune selected at random.
Today’s rune is isaz, a rune that is translated as the word “ice”. Sources associate isaz with a calmness, present moment or stillness. As ice, isaz is sometimes associated with standstill, stagnation, stasis or contraction; even at times as pristine beauty with seductive qualities.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
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isaz, poetry, rewilding, rune
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casting runes — 03jan26