Ever notice that most people never really like reading poetry? Perhaps there is a reason.
©2021 Michael Raven
will you show dark wings? in the summer's warm night unfolding in moonlight shoulders naked and wan ivory against ebon skies will you kiss me tonight? chill skin in the breeze i will warm with my breath lost in you shadows lost in your depths will your dark wings glisten opal in the moonlight will you, would you kiss me tonight?
©2021 Michael Raven
tracing my fingers
over your curves in
candlelight & afterglow
giving myself to you
as you give yourself to me
luxuriating
between sighs &
softly whispered oaths
Note: For the purposes of these runepoems, I randomly select three runes and consider the meanings of each rune as I interpret and understand them based on a number of different resources, which may or may not be in alignment with accepted interpretations. I am a rune enthusiast, not an expert or scholar. These “runecasts” are not intended to be treated as divinatory, although there are elements of personal alchemy and shamanic practice in the crafting of each poem.
©2021 Michael Raven
paint me staves
mark me down with
spellcast writ
cover me in letters
cover me in rhyme
paint me in colors
etch me etch me yours
©2021 Michael Raven
For today’s rune-inspired poem, I was asked in the comments from yesterday’s poem by Harshi to include a rune of their choosing in my random selection of runes meant to inspire today’s poem. They randomly chose tiwaz (ᛏ) as their rune and I drew from lots the other two.
ørlǫg is sometimes too set to break & wyrd already writ as a result cycles upon cycles lead to unions & bonds some trials lead to wyrd's eventual rewards
Note: For the purposes of these runepoems, I randomly select three runes and consider the meanings of each rune as I interpret and understand them based on a number of different resources, which may or may not be in alignment with accepted interpretations. I am a rune enthusiast, not an expert or scholar. These “runecasts” are not intended to be treated as divinatory, although there are elements of personal alchemy and shamanic practice in the crafting of each poem.
©2021 Michael Raven
i dreamt i saw you on a jet heading west your hair in braids and runes written on your chest dark eyes wild as you kissed me there in the seat everyone looking elsewhere lips like honey mead on a cold winter night don't bother with duluth, i said as the plane taxis away you laughed with head thrown back and intoxicated me with another kiss
©2021 Michael Raven
i am a window
with winter air
boring through me
leaving frost-kissed
the dirty dishes in
the dirty sink
©2021 Michael Raven
overwrought dramas staged by each of my three daughters is driving me more than slightly mad
©2021 Michael Raven
a single lamppost in the snow-filled forest calls to me from 'twixt heavy furs drawing me away
©2021 Michael Raven
thunder in the distance i ride towards the storm to honor my fylgja to renew oaths to find myself reborn
Note: For the purposes of these runepoems, I randomly select three runes and consider the meanings of each rune as I interpret and understand them based on a number of different resources, which may or may not be in alignment with accepted interpretations. I am a rune enthusiast, not an expert or scholar. These “runecasts” are not intended to be treated as divinatory, although there are elements of personal alchemy and shamanic practice in the crafting of each poem.
©2021 Michael Raven
in bed
contemplating
freedom &
necessity
an owl
hoots in the
night
sceadugenga 
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