Tag: poetry

hole

dusk pours out of me
i am that lost hour
a brittle bone heart
carved in passing as
they drift to the next
hole in the sky,
a stone before the lake

27 Oct 25

ephemera

these words and thoughts --
naught but cherry blossoms
drifting downstream

26 Oct 25

maturity, maybe

letting go
thirty years ago
was the best thing
as much as it saddens
me to admit so

25 Oct 25

casting runes — 24oct25
fehu
```
fox fire, raven coal
first flurries pale
i offer crimson now
to keep all relations, mine
both safe and hale
```
A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.
Today’s rune is fehu, which has a core meaning of “cattle” or a more generalized “livestock”, which was a representation of personal wealth or earned prosperity. Sometimes luck played a role. Wealth and prosperity was valued, but was looked down upon when material accumulation appeared to be excessive, greedy, miserly or turned to hoarding, especially when those around you were lacking.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
24 Oct 25

rings

drained, i pour inside
to sit within my pain
—don't speak
everything runs over
and i cannot drink
another drop

instead, arthritic fingers chase
wet rings on the hard

24 Oct 25

wilderness

come the sluagh nights soonly
come they baying at your door
sickle scythe under nightmoon
a'reaving long before the dawn

23 Oct 25

at the wytching tree

this chronic river
flawing through
is a stoning earned
for the time cast 
down drunk at
the wytching tree

there is no care
for these secrets 
that might be shared
those left to die here
in the wee hours down
at the wytching tree

22 Oct 25

casting runes — 22oct25
othala
```
under the cloak
the patterns burn
all the more clear

slip to the well
and dive, emerge
in the lands
under the sea
```
A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.
Today’s rune is othala, which has a core meaning of “heritage”, “inheritance” and “legacy”. These are all associated with home, kin, ancestors, stability and (in some interpretations) past lives or spiritual legacy.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
22 Oct 25

on the wind

"throw your head away
and let branches replace
the empty left behind",
said the acorn man

so
we gathered round
and grew old,
apple blossoms
on the wind

21 Oct 25

to the turning within

as the nights slip
cauldron to stone
from wave to cold
we turn to the 
turning within

spirits on the wander
gather 'round the flames
dancing, spinning, yearning
as they give to the
turning within

let all our debt burn away
as we turn to the
turning within

21 Oct 25