Tag: poetry

under

stone blind the woodpost
and standing antler pale
we nightwing under

falling into her lovi
love, fallen in her
let us dream a song-her
let us fall within her home

we heartdrum blackwing
at edge lake drift snow
we break our under

lovi, we dream us,
deep within her home

11 Dec 25

casting runes — 11dec25
dagaz
```
twilight torches
push at shadows,
hint at a dawn
blanketed in mists & fog

one hand beckons
another wards away
while the drifter
goes on the drift
in twilight once again
```
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.
11 Dec 25

unmoored

my mind is on the drift   and
i cannot find the will     to
moor it anymore,      perhaps
i will butterfly      instead

10 Dec 25

one last

all i ask is for
just one last kiss
before dying
just that one last
chance at bliss
before i surrender
in your arms

10 Dec 25

casting runes — 10dec25
ingwaz
```
drifting hollowbone
to fill of the empty
fall back, fall back
to slender dark cold
salts slip of memory
```
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.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
10 Dec 25

of giving over

shedding such skins as these is a
matter of embracing one's agonies
even when the fit has gone dodgy
back before time's mists rolled in

clinging sores and calloused regrets
linger in the tenderest of spaces, so
it is best, face set to grimace, to rip
and give over a hey, nonny, nonny

10 Dec 25

feast

i feel a drift
coming on &
may take the fade
on a spell;
nothing ever remains
for the feast
at me

09 Dec 25

casting runes — 09dec25
pertho
```
pips & bones
stonecast & thrown
cutting jesses & tethers
winter the winds &
gone on the drift
```
A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.
Today’s rune is pertho, which has a disputed meaning and there is some indication that any proposed meanings might be based on a corrupted interpretation. The general consensus is that there is likely some relationship to ørlǫg (fate/destiny), luck/gambling or perhaps hidden knowledge.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
09 Dec 25

empty

*Photo by Cornelia Munteanu on Unsplash*

empty of understanding...

when i say i am stone,
i am not stone, i am stone

when i say i will river
i do not river, i just river

when i branch at tree
i am not branch, but i am tree

when i say of she i dream
it is not she, but it is me

these are times my vandal mouth
should be sutured shut
before someone sees
these broken words i bleed

soon, no one will call and read nothing back to me.

08 Dec 25

casting runes — 08dec25
mannaz
```
stray midday sunlight
melts sieidi hoar
so that stone
needs never
speak
```
A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.
Today’s rune is mannaz, a rune that translates to “man” in the sense of “humankind”. The rune is associated with family and the social order, and in trusting the intuitive process or seeing clearly — both from within and from without. Mannaz influences relationships of all kinds, including those of a romantic nature and encourages compassion, for oneself as well as for others.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
08 Dec 25