Tag: poetry

  • taiga tempts

    everywhere i turn
    i see raven watching

    roadsides, treetop
    even at the store
    overlooking children
    of the first nations

    ’listen,’ they say
    ’look,’ they add
    ’there is a story
    here needing telling’

    the taiga tempts
    blackened feathers fall
    as they slip away

  • relations

    raven circles overhead
    welcoming me to
    their home by the ocean
    bringing all our relations

  • the cairns

    The Cairns card from the “Oracle of the Morrigan” card deck
    here, the heroes
    stand guard the pale
    while at fives
    while at nines
    and under the sevens
    unmoved by illusion
    waiting in stillness
    for those
    who might find
    their way home

    Disclosure: My use of those tools most often associated with divination are largely as randomized writing prompts, often with the intent of personal alchemy. They are not intended to be representative of traditional divinatory practice. My personal interpretations (and methods) will likely not agree with those found in popular culture.

  • turning away

    Photo by pedram ahmadi on Unsplash
    like wild horses
    before the storm
    here comes the
    turning away

    we have heard all
    those plots before and
    i am caring less
    what your gods
    have to say

    i unbind knots
    that blind stained eyes
    and give over to both
    the bone and the stone

    crashing down
    like a waterfall
    when comes the
    turning away

  • hold me

    conceptual portrait of hands with red thread
    Photo by Amirhossein Kianbakht on Pexels.com
    i slumber the under
    with gut pull drag
    forgetting all names
    i am tired, so will you
    hold me tonight?

    and when i
    stop making sense
    growing fungal
    to the loam
    bury me inside and
    hold me tonight

    deadwood and memories
    howling to driven
    let the rain come
    falling and just
    hold me tonight

  • the badb

    The Badb card from the “Oracle of the Morrigan” card deck
    we old crow frenzy
    leaving trails of scarlet
    trailing off in fresh fallen snow
    standing tall of stone north
    we are not your sacrifice
    we are not your country
    we are flint & steel

    battle cry & cauldron
    we stand of october
    swinging blackthorn
    without an ounce of fear

    Disclosure: My use of those tools most often associated with divination are largely as randomized writing prompts, often with the intent of personal alchemy. They are not intended to be representative of traditional divinatory practice. My personal interpretations (and methods) will likely not agree with those found in popular culture.

  • imagine

    Photo by Kaleb Brown on Unsplash
    to fall out of lifetime
    into dream embraces
    and forget an outside
    imagine

    careful, clouds
    glide against ever blue
    falling up into the you
    imagine

    lost roads in drift
    over the hills and
    far away, a heaven to
    imagine

  • hazy daze

    Photo by Harald Pliessnig on Unsplash
    hazy daze drifting through
    a forest filled with mists
    a shrouded day of
    memory's ghosts & steel

    careless wraithing
    a bone wight shamble
    given to the otherside
    casting about for home

    dewdrops on the pale
    naked for the grey
    a rumble within shadow
    stalking unseen

  • judgment

    i  swear
    i always intend
    to get out more
    meet new friends
    do new things
    but—

    peopling terrifies me now
    when every word or action
    is a litmus test to
    determine tribal
    affiliation

    it seems more sensible
    to stay at home
    and not subject myself
    to the world’s
    casual judgment

  • murder

    Photo by Aleksei Zaitcev on Unsplash
    a murder outside and
    a drive-by suicide
    laughing, what a joke

    waiting for red fox
    waiting for red show

    chewing on that razor wire
    where did you think
    you might go?