crow scratchings: ᛉᚺᚢ

crow pecking
at cataracts
tenacious old ways
still cloud sight --
sunlight filtering
through to warm
buried seeds

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three runes: ᚺ ᚹ ᚾ

forgetting names
faces & places
a drifter
on windswept
winter plains

ice breaking...
staff, then step
then step, then staff
steady

no firebrand behind
no flame before
burning from the
inside wherever this
old crow roams

symbolisms
ᚺ hagalaz
ᚹ wunjo
ᚾ nauthiz

three runes: ᛏ ᛋ ᚺ

just a lump of meat
offered to snapping jaws
striking sparks
stone teeth, steel
sacrifice & seed
sown to a
future past

symbolisms
ᛏ tiwaz
ᛋ sowilo
ᚺ hagalaz

three runes: ᛇ ᚺ ᛉ

old crow, he
wants to show the
door to more
mantic memory

"close it behind,
mind you,
as you pass"

icicles melting
in the sun
fall to thresholds
& shatter

symbolisms
ᛇ eihwaz
ᚺ hagalaz
ᛉ algiz

three runes: ᚺ ᚹ ᛇ

frigid water washes over
tides move in, then out

ebon night sands
slipping away away
ocean embraced, all
scars scrubbed smooth

symbolisms
ᚺ hagalaz
ᚹ wunjo
ᛇ eihwaz

three runes: ᚷ ᚨ ᚺ

galdrsang
calling stone
eyes closed &
under cloak

foxglove grey
in shifting drifts

symbolisms
ᚷ gebo
ᚨ ansuz
ᚺ hagalaz

three runes: ᚺ ᛈ ᛏ

firewalking ice
reaching underground
to strip flesh from bone

standing snow crow
holds a secret
in one foot
spear in the other

bitter winds on the fell

symbolisms
ᚺ hagalaz
ᛈ pertho
ᛏ tiwaz

three runes: ᚢ ᛖ ᚺ

bull in meltsnow drizzle
steam now, burning ice
hoofscrape scrape
scuff scrape

wickflame in the rain
crashing in...
ride the night
a hellfury
tear the sky down
&
bury me deep inside

symbolisms
ᚢ uruz
ᛖ ehwaz
ᚺ hagalaz

three runes: ᚨ ᚺ ᛟ

ashen days
with closed eyes
singing hey hey hey
ancestors gather
waiting to receive
open arms from the mists

this, i see

symbolisms
ᚨ ansuz
ᚺ hagalaz
ᛟ othala

three runes: ᚢ ᚺ ᛒ

sitting stone stubborn
in incessant, freezing rain
determined to wash away
leather-wrought tethers
to bygone days

symbolisms
ᚢ uruz
ᚺ hagalaz
ᛒ berkana

Tag: hagalaz

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