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  • drift gather snow

    21Aug25 | 08.45 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250821.0845
    black wooden fence on snow field at a distance of black bare trees
    Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com
    on drift gather snow
    crows wind draw
    singing to steel wire
    humming on breeze
    leaves painted frost
    in a lonesome place far
    waiting on gentle wings
    come to on
    drift gather snow

    tagged:

    poetry

    filed under:

    poetry, writing
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  • Half-penny thoughts | 20aug25

    20Aug25 | 08.05 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250820.0805
    Photo by Dmitry Vechorko on Unsplash

    I am on the drift again. The wending roads beckoning from my within, an untethering from my abouts.

    Though the weather is still too warm still for such things, I drew on my fleece jacket, pulled up the hood around my face and over my head as I walked from car to my once-a-week-office-space and felt at home within the folds of fabric. My bare legs incongruent with the jacket over my torso, but I could care less. I used to half-jest that I was made for kilts — my legs have always been too warm and I still wear shorts at home in the winter when everyone else wraps themselves in thick blankets.

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    tagged:

    drifter, fantasies, half-penny thoughts, silly stuff

    filed under:

    junk drawer, thinking
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  • Truth

    19Aug25 | 21.29 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250819.2129
    person foot on water
    Photo by Kaique Rocha on Pexels.com

    I travel long distances without leaving my home.

    This is truth.

    I pull the hood over my head, cover my eyes and I am back on the road, blacktop beneath my soles, blackthorn in my hand, tall pines doused in their pungent cologne, rising tall and casting everything shadow.

    This is truth

    Blacktop fades to gravel fades to black dirt stained grey and the birch draw closer, birds talking from the broad reeds, powder puff cattails and rushes green. Giving directions. Giving meaning.

    This is truth.

    Feeling gravities pull to gloaming space, I ramble on.

    This is truth.

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, prose

    filed under:

    prose, writing
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  • tossing a rune — 19aug25

    19Aug25 | 08.45 CDT
    © 2025

    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

    filed under:

    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

    filed under:

    poetry, writing
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  • fractured moons

    17Aug25 | 21.42 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250817.2142
    Photo by Patrick Fore on Unsplash
    these fractured moons
    stolen away with threadbare
    etched in whalebone hue

    time to turn off the radio
    listen to the forest hum
    time to watch waves come anew

    oh, these lonely
    moon broke nights
    between a hard place and you

    tagged:

    poetry, the dreaming

    filed under:

    poetry, writing
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  • callings

    17Aug25 | 10.09 CDT
    © 2025

    michael raven

    c: 250817.1009
    Photo by Stephane Gagnon on Unsplash
    leaving oceans west
    we turn & leave sun
    to tread north & night

    to tombstone & ice
    with frenzies far spent
    we give of thorn, scathed

    with waves washing
    blades dig black to snow
    calling of moon

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry

    filed under:

    poetry, writing
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