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  • tossing a rune — 19aug25

    19Aug25 | 08.45 CDT
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    michael raven

    c: 250819.0845
    ehwaz
    at rivers' crossing
    she joins, shoulder riding light
    silent as the fog around

    no more words—
    silence is the wisdom
    of the day

    A rune poem, based on an Elder Futhark rune selected at random.

    Today’s rune is ehwaz, which has a core meaning of “horse”. A horse is often associated with journeys, travel and movement. By extension, it also implies symbiosis with another living creature or fylgja, and the rune is associated with loyalty or trust.

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


    tagged:

    ehwaz, poetry, rewilding, rune

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    poetry, writing

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  • slip-tween

    19Aug25 | 07.33 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250819.0733
    Photo by Abishek on Unsplash
    the bough's silver song
    framed of moonlight
    under the oak we rest
    feasting on gold
    slip-tween slip-tween
    through and back
    a kiss of the nightqueen
    as her river drifts by

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry

    filed under:

    poetry, writing

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  • notnight

    18Aug25 | 20.32 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250818.2032
    Photo by Samuel Quek on Unsplash
    neverything coming waves
    washing over my black sands
    in the untethered paleness
    of notnight aglow afar
    and i undertow flow
    back to the nine
    back to chilled dreaming
    as if unknown to wake

    tagged:

    poetry, the dreaming

    filed under:

    poetry, writing

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  • Wandering

    18Aug25 | 12.24 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250818.1224
    Photo by Kaleb Brown on Unsplash

    Wandering the daydream, with all the accompanying mists and the fey voices just out of earshot in those mists; a forest of lingering like a wraith waiting for the gloaming of nightfell — such is the path I flow.

    Weary of trying to find connection, I feel the tug of something less even than byways. And, giving in, twin feet shamble towards the briar and thorns to follow on the stones to sacrifice of both eyes. The words are liars, near all, so we toss them to the underbrush and let them return to mud.

    This is my lonely and I feel possessive of it in the way the chill of fresh-fallen snow stings skin to pleasure as two bare hands mould it into shape. I do not think I can share it, and I would never dare to give it away. It is far too precious.

    Turn away, just as the guitar peals the last banshee cries into night. We are like as not, unforgiven.


    tagged:

    experiments, prose

    filed under:

    prose, writing

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  • hidden-faced moon

    18Aug25 | 09.37 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250818.0937
    Photo by Cornelia Munteanu on Unsplash
    embracing the forest's fog
    delving ever deeper within
    shaking off distraction
    with the rising of a hood
    so that both
    seeing & hearing
    becomes more clear

    a murder calls of autumn
    long rains, hidden-faced moon

    tagged:

    poetry, rewilding

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    poetry, writing

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