Tag: rewilding

tossing a rune — 15sep25
dagaz
```
she waves at the threshold
waiting to close the door
until i finally show sense & cross
over to her stone winters within
```
A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.
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.
15 Sep 25

wire

to go back to mud
root in and ashen
rest awhile & slumber
winter in the long
dark come

this scrimshawed heart
slenders back to
a lingering song
playing on the wire
in the wind

12 Sep 25

tossing a rune — 11sep25
ansuz
```
to spell you a song
of under dusk breath
of under branched canopy

we tanglelimbs wending
through winds these twine
riding old ash tonight
```
A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.
Today’s rune is ansuz, which has a core meaning “a god” (intended to be Odin), “mouth” or “breath”. Odin is representative of many, many things… in this case, ansuz is most representative of the mouth/breath (speech) that gives life to poetry, magic, song, language, and spirit — largely inseparable in the Viking worldview — and Odin is considered the supreme master of these intertwined concepts.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
11 Sep 25
tossing a rune — 10sep25
pertho
```
digging for roots to
see what grows below
but there is no
untangling of that weave
so cover it back with soil
```
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 the ascribed meanings might be corruptions. The general consensus is that there is likely some relationship to ørlǫg (fate/destiny), luck/gambling or hidden knowledge.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
10 Sep 25
tossing a rune — 04sep25
nauthiz
```
relearning to
read the winds again
to bend an ear to oak
to let her river
wash over me
to rise within smoke
```
A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.
Today’s rune is nauth i z, which has a core meaning of “need”. Alternative translations have been “hardship” or “constraint”. Among the interpretations, nauthiz is seen as a indicative of a transition or transformation, a period of learning or strengthening of resilience, lacking, and impermanence — inclusive of other related concepts.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
04 Sep 25

falling

having slipped through the land
last night, here, through
this clay stuff found under feet
i wondered at my mouth
forgetting the words to speak
and realize we are blind
and none can hear
what i say in the anyway

including me.

so i gave over to falling
until i could fall no more
and sat unexpectant down
there in the below
waiting for the dark sun days
to call me back up, out 
and forth, but only
if what is when might be

02 Sep 25

tossing a rune — 02sep25
isaz
```
she walks in beauty
casting autumn in rime
with every step and pale

i have watched her
coming over hill and vale
learning to give to stone
```
A rune poem, based on an Elder Futhark rune selected at random.
Today’s rune is isaz, which has a core meaning of “ice”. Ice is associated with beauty, stillness, stasis/preservation, the present moment and cold.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
02 Sep 25

stolen knot wings broken

black bird perching on concrete wall with ocean overview — *Photo by Tim Mossholder on Pexels.com*

she returned
my stolen knot wings broken
and gave me whale
mixed with trinkets and scorn
to prove that she was well

she is not well

i slipped my wings
gently back on
gave the whale
to my pocket
to contemplate
later on

slipping through door
in the wee soul hours
shuttered and locked behind
wayfaring the north road home

02 Sep 25

at the center

in the cauldron season
reconciling liminal me
standing bíle and center
both eyes to boiling sea

born of raven and apple
kin to the stone
thorn prick'd and blooded
given to bone

riding the crests,
sailing to home

28 Aug 25

coming home

waves — lands — skies
center standing, i ash
holding to wights
& to wraiths
& to the very small

a headful of pastfall
hearth gathering
in the myrk & gloam
waiting for their coming
home

28 Aug 25