Tag: rewilding

  • pop

    Campfire
    Photo by Ville Palmu on Unsplash
    gather bones
    gather leaves
    gather poppets
    gather strings

    pop cracks stone

    dancing fire
    dancing sparks
    dancing poppets
    dancing leaves

  • rattle the bones

    Photo by pedram ahmadi on Unsplash
    everything too suchness
    fan rattle to flame seething
    and shudder limbs shake

    ragged wrap in arms
    of rags and wraith
    chasing all elder ways

    knock the stone fell
    rattle the bones
    shake in clenched silence

    rattle all those bones

  • thistle & woad

    Photo by Mandy Bourke on Unsplash
    with a head full of thistle &
    hands stained of woad
    skating away over water to
    while away a spell
    with the acorn man

    you probably
    would not understand
    that has become a given
    over these near
    twin scored years

    and so it comes to
    wander this wodewood alone
    chatting with oaks
    in the blackthorn
    with a head full of thistle &
    hands stained of woad

  • in the weald

    a path in the middle of a dark forest
    Photo by Wes Hicks on Unsplash
    gone to wode
    in the weald
    gone to fever 
    in the head
    would he to wild
    oh darkling, at
    spanning rivers
    in his bed

  • wandering at amble

    Photo by Fabian Bächli on Unsplash
    is it descendance
    or ascension
    when desire is
    in suspension?
    when you feel
    tension but remain
    uncompelled to act
    on anything at all?
    are you alive
    without drive or
    are you just living
    life small?

  • black sands

    black wooden fence on snow field at a distance of black bare trees
    Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com
    i walk
    the black sands
    hand on hand
    holding the blade
    carving a line
    none dare cross

    we are rose petals
    scattered scarlet
    blood my blood
    a desert red without
    you mouth to
    drink me in

    winter song of wine
    a stone beach
    broken of time

  • otherside

    Photo by Harald Pliessnig on Unsplash
    i wonder at the fog that
    obscures all thinking
    dancing ghosts away
    from dream

    all the lies, all the lies of me
    i feel a new sobriety
    washing over

    another wall showing cracks?
    what awaits the otherside?

  • tossing a rune — 27jun25

    sowilo
    the haze of frost
    clouding vision
    melts away —
    casting sharper shadows
    in the brightness of day

    Another rune poem of mine, where the rune is selected at random.

    Today’s rune is sowilo, which has a core meaning “sun”. The sun is representative of the source of life, illumination and power.

  • enjoin me

    a path in the middle of a dark forest
    Photo by Wes Hicks on Unsplash
    the troubles keep and
    none of them mine
    there is no time to cry

    i step to oak & slender
    the place within
    i could dream all day &
    all night in the within

    flint, cuts skin, bone
    to drag me of wood
    spell some silence
    for me, one who sees
    enjoin me to whole

  • fade away

    Photo by Abishek on Unsplash
    silting down thick
    the layers me put
    under the wave

    quenching flame
    give steel to rust
    casting new

    i rain i rain
    i rain i rain
    under granite
    skies, i rain

    keep me in
    your memory
    but then let me
    fade away