embracing aether tendril tugs
while whispering my wishes
back to me, offering
drifts in calmer currents
drifts off to far gone seas
some days i dream of dying
others, i know already that i have
been dying for decades
just a silver slip and falling
her arms catch, on gentle wings
to carry me, bringing
drifts in calmer currents
drifts off to far gone seas
i prefer the company of shadows
not knowing the wolf for dog
i bare neck, hoping for a nip
lack of certainty
stokes midnight's flicking flame
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.
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silence falling in white
were i made of sterner stuff
i might sit in stillness outside
until it covered me whole
let me drift back to
dreaming of you
or someone like you
sowing acorns behind
the veil of dreams
A rune poem, based on an Elder Futhark rune selected at random.
Today’s rune is ingwaz, a rune named after the god Ing or Freyr. It is representative of a channeled energy or transformational process. It is also be seen as the male component of life, and therefore a symbol of sexual passions and the contributed “seed” of life (and, therefore, an aspect of one’s ancestral ørlǫg, or fate/destiny). Some interpretations conceive the rune as a symbol of darkness, solitude or dreaming.
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do not converse with yourself
within my stormflint gaze
smalltalk is still smalltalk
in cafe or on flickering screen
give me substance or give me death...
i favor comfortable silence &
carve words close to the bone
even haiku can grow too long
already this has worn welcomes
to rags & ribbon, so i—
unhere
for comfort
for beauty —
these sores weep
rosegardens in rains
stained in blood
at the funeral they
will look back laughing
pushing pale lilies
in a storm
living lone wolf
prowling the jagged edge
eyes giving flight to shadow
pale as moon, her limbs
skeleton bare cast ley
on ragged snow
A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.
Today’s rune is berkana, which translates to “birch”. Birch are associated with earth-mother and maternal energies. Because birch is a “pioneer tree” which tends to grow in advance of other tree growth — especially after forest fires — berkana is associated with renewal and rebirth. Additionally, berkana has ties to liminal thresholds of all types, especially those paths to the underworld.
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evershade i firefly without
dancing on foxfire nights
slipping dream in slender slight
all remains echo
i have tried, how i have tried
to wash blood from fingers
in slender slight
her first fingers
stretch, clutch at pale
covered of night stained
lapis & spangle
i slumber for her coming
& dream
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.
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heather grey stairstop sitting
all elbows & knees & grinning
sundanced & hair bright gold
ten-twenty-one, crows gone counting
a hungry & thirsty spring morning