casting the runes: ᚢᚷᛖ

greetings exchanged
backyard chatter
on drizzle days

done with
small-talk
black crow
flies away

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runes in this poem:
uruz
gebo
ehwaz

casting the runes: ᛈᚢᛉ

spring storm stubborn
risk being struck &
drawing sparks
living bone wards off
leaving infused with light

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runes in this poem:
pertho
uruz
algiz

tear apart those
baked-in perceptions
cast aside accumulated
bullshit & breathe in new
ashen beginnings

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runes in this poem:
hagalaz
ansuz
uruz

using old fieldstone for
walls' serpentine curves
a shelter from storms
under cloak & hood

rebirthed in mud
earth becomes kin

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runes in this poem:
ehwaz
uruz
berkana

old ways
gone to earth
& faces to the sun

walking ancient
blackened highways
with lightning
in three eyes

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runes in this poem:
uruz
othala
thurisaz

being tested between
hammer & anvil
new shapes evolve
as snow recedes &
the time comes to
again follow the horn

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runes in this poem:
uruz
fehu
jera

gifts from the dying season
laid bare by melting snow
a cutter breaks over
the ninth wave's crest
warm in palm, carved bone

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runes in this poem:
gebo
laguz
uruz

laughter &
hand on hand
in hand
beyond the veil
two flames
burning bright

two feet over
running water
soon enough
crossing over

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runes in this poem:
gebo
kenaz
uruz

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

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underneath primeval oak,
stone crow enduring
late winter rains

symbolisms
ᛏ tiwaz
ᛃ jera
ᚢ uruz