Tag: poetry

casting runes — 10mar26
sowilo
```
snowflake but
climbing up
shadows slink
to scheme away
whiling until
after the fall
```
A rune poem, based on an Elder Futhark rune selected at random.
Today’s rune is sowilo, the sun. Sowilo is the source of enlightenment, for lighting the way and illumination. It is also called the “icebreaker” and gives power to an “attack”, ensuring success and/or prosperity. This rune also represents hope, the light at the end of a long darkness.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
10 Mar 26

he fool calls

he fool calls crow
in pale wood, black stone
he red calls ghost
from the south to the north

he road calls spirit
to her medicine ride train
he wing calls kindred
to carry night skies again

10 Mar 26

Half-penny Thoughts — 09mar25
Photo by Bharath Kumar on Unsplash
As I delving back into the habit of writing prose versus my habit in recent years of writing almost exclusively poetry, I’m tossing around several ideas to bounce around my largely empty cranium.
Okay, it’s more like dumping a large bucket of superballs at this time.
Or, if I’m more upfront and honest about what I’m doing, throwing the whole bunch of superballs all at once as hard as I can and see what comes out of the bouncy mess.
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09 Mar 26
casting runes — 09mar26
hagalaz
```
crack seed pellet
crystal kissed
side-step, slipstream
burning on within

weary of voices ghost
```
A rune poem, based on an Elder Futhark rune selected at random.
Today’s rune is hagalaz, which has a core meaning of “hail”, which was associated with potential, transformation, renewal and change; hail is imagined a seed from which change will arise. Hagalaz is also seen as representative of things beyond our control: a clash between fire and ice.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
09 Mar 26

brokework

he mad dog barked at
walls drawing down
he jaw chomped hard
at cage and at leash

with hatpin hands
and neck rust screech
a brokework heart
and tinsel teeth

dragging behind loathing
in razor wire, unsure
which self to throw
to mists from peak

08 Mar 26

casting runes — 07mar26
uruz
```
iron pierced these & thistle,
in nettle & thunderhead

dredge of horn furrows
over open & naked hand

lost teardrops
lightning shatters sky
```
A rune poem, based on an Elder Futhark rune selected at random.
Today’s rune is uruz. The rune is named after the now-extinct aurochs, a wild ox and has become associated with standing up to challenges, having both confidence and courage, stubborn tenacity, and boundless strength and health. Uruz is alternately associated with the more raw elements which include rain, primordial potential, and the slag/dross cast away during the making of iron.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
07 Mar 26

long hours

no one hears pain
grind teeth clutch ache 
bone taste of dry leaf
of die want long hours 

knives drive nine
slice tendon night
sleepless sleepless razor
of die want long hours

06 Mar 26

casting runes — 05mar25
dagaz
```
i seek you in umbra
slipping 'twixt & 'tween
between bone & meat
there, in the hollows
where twin shadows meet
```
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.
05 Mar 26
casting runes — 04mar26
hagalaz
```
as stiff as storm &
as sharp as bone
a burr joins them all

i stand at hollow
arms outstretched
a wight without a stone
```
A rune poem, based on an Elder Futhark rune selected at random.
Today’s rune is hagalaz, which has a core meaning of “hail”, which was associated with potential, transformation, renewal and change; hail is imagined a seed from which change will arise. Hagalaz is also seen as representative of things beyond our control: a clash between fire and ice.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
04 Mar 26

scrawl

*Photo by Alexander Krivitskiy on Unsplash*

here is me writing heartletters
with bare finger; my page, your skin
words flowing over rolling hills
and scrawling your valleys, too
all through gloaming to night
to taste shadows growing long
with each and every bite
every syllable song ringing
rhyme with euphoric firefly

03 Mar 26