Tag: rewilding

  • forest of spirits

    Forest of Spirits card from the “Oracle of the Morrigan” card deck
    even dead things have their wild—
    campfires hold no sway over their
    bone whispers shrouded in mists

    should you shadowwalk with me
    we will slender through feral spaces
    to find our the names and faces
    we wore before we were born,
    or we may lose our myriad selves
    in the fog

    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.

  • all we need know

    standing stones
    Photo by Suzanne Rushton on Unsplash
    she is twin crests
    her rivers run free
    that is all we
    need know

    she is the green
    her cleft draws in
    into the womb
    under cairn

    stone is all that matters
    all words just
    nattering on like
    whispers on wind

    she is wellspring
    that is all
    we need know

  • gone to heath

    Photo by Ovidiu Cozma on Unsplash
    my head has gone to heath
    mottled stone of lichen
    passing steel or passing sun

    under rain and dampening
    cold the wind whistles wending
    through the heath stones
    that make of my head

    slender spaces shimmer quiet
    thin be'twixt and 'tween
    here upon my hillock of dream

  • tossing a rune — 10jul25

    ansuz
    campfire pops & crackles
    set the song's rhythm
    spirits remain mute
    surrendering space
    to night's denizens
    so they may sing, too

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

    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.

  • long, cool rain

    Photo by Cornelia Munteanu on Unsplash
    i wonder at the
    absence of flames
    my world has been
    on fire almost
    every day and now…
    …now?

    there is a long,
    cool rain falling
    quenching the heat
    and i cannot
    identify the cause,
    nor why of it all

    ever so slight of nervous
    seeking a torch
    to now light my way