while most eyes gaze backwards
from summer's twilight hours
wistful and melancholic
with a crooked smile and raised hood
i melt into the coming night
the song of ravens calling me home
A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.
Today’s rune is jera. Jera has a translation of “year” and has also been translated as “harvest”. This rune is representative of cycles, the “wheel of the year”, the union of opposites (implied by the summer half of the year ending, winter half of the year beginning), balance, as well as cause/effect relationships.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
6 responses to “tossing a rune — 22sep25”
Lovely. You make it a bit easier to let go of summer.
🙂 thanks!
backward revolved the luminous wheel
Under the volcano?
My fave. Wheels are a constant theme of Lowry’s in the novel. When you described that rune I couldn’t resist.🙂
Nice connection. 🙂