Hel means 'hidden'. Will this always be so? #HeathenSky

Opinion, popular or not; Line breaks do not make a poem. They are possibly the least necessary part of a poem. There is possibly nothing poetic in a line break. [Every rule in poetry has exceptions] #PoetrySky

Inclusivity is the norm for modern Heathenry. It is an aberration to gatekeep the religion for whites. It will be better for us all when the AFA, Irminfolk Kindred, Jotun’s Bane Kindred, and like organizations are tossed on the burn pile of history. #heathensky #heathen #inclusive

Rahul Gupta's "Gleipnir: To Bind the Wolf" meditates on the frail cords that hold back Ragnarrok. Since my current open call for submissions (due Oct. 1) is for poems in the Norse style, it's a good poem to read for inspiration. alliteration.net/poetry/gleipnir/ #submissionscall #SubmissionCall

Ragnarok is in someways a poet showing you yesternight's poem, not writing today's. #PaganSky #HeathenSky #PoetrySky

Nine days to submit a poem to the Fall Issue of Forgotten Ground Regained. alliteration.net/call-for-submissions/ #poetry #submissions #Norse #Viking #poetrysky #BlueSkyPoets #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #poetrycommunity #litmags #alliterativeverse

Wyrd is simply the way things are. But how well do you know the way things are? It's worthwhile remembering, that weird as you feel, you too are one of the way things are. Alliteration is not about looks. #PoetrySky #AlliterativeVerse #Wyrd #Weird

Boc 1/2 Risted onto wood, the rune is hushed. The buh of beorc is bound by slicing; the oh of os is un-mouthed, gagged; cen is cut, carried on a rune-stave, cont... #HeathenSky #RunicSky #AlliterativeVerse

Why does any post using 'actually' lose credibility in my mind...?

*Altar & Sacred Objects Challenge* Pictures, as you fancy, of devotional objects special to you. No need to explain. #HeathenSky #PaganSky #AltarChallenge

Cyningdōma (sovereignty) - a recent painting taken from an encounter and teachings received around Sovereignty of self & protecting boundaries. Wishing you all a good Wednesday & rest of your week. Gabrielle x #witchsky #heathensky #pagansky #hedgewitch #animist

Here is Yelling-sand. Jotunheim was made for them, But first Mid-yard Was made from them. So the very small, Eviserated, Goes to make up The immensity of all.

#PaganSky An invocation of the figure, the god-child, Mabon, at a time when their name is flattened & abstracted: "That which grows within that which is grown within."

#HeathenSky This gives the links to 1) a spoken word album, free to stream, of Heathen verse on bandcamp. 2) a linktr.ee with connections to Heathen & Pagan verses on YouTube. It's good listening. Let me know what you think. Ta. [Shield art by Þorskegga Þorn]

#HeathenSky, or should that be #YmirsThoughtBox

If you've not seen it yet, but have a hankering for such things, Forgotten Ground Regained offers not only guidance of how to write it, examples of it, but also space to publish it. #AlliterativeVerse #PoetrySky #HeathenSky #OldEnglish #OldNorse

Poets & song-writers have rhyming dictionaries. Alliterative poets have, um, dictionaries. #PoetrySky #AlliterativeVerse

*Altar & Sacred Objects Challenge* Pictures, as you fancy, of devotional objects special to you. No need to explain. #HeathenSky #PaganSky #AltarChallenge

For as long as I've been #Heathen, #poetry has been a devotional act, especially writing in #AlliterativeVerse - traditional forms of the Old English & OId Norse. If you're inspired to try it, Forgotten Ground Regained is a marvellous place to learn about it. Also, follow me & let's chat about it.

* Folklore Pagan Heathen Bookshare * As & when you fancy, show us a book from your shelves. No comment necessary. #Folklore #PaganSky #HeathenSky #Books #FolkWitchBookChallenge

*Altar & Sacred Objects Challenge* Pictures, as you fancy, of devotionsl objects, special to you. No need to explain. #HeathenSky #PaganSky #AltarChallenge

Six weeks to brush up on Viking style poetry! Oct. 1st deadline for poems in Norse and Icelandic forms for the Fall issue of Forgotten Ground Regained. alliteration.net/call-for-submissions #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #skypoets #poetsonbluesky #medievalsky #heathensky #mysca #SCAdians

More & more, I'm cross at the use of *reconstructed rune names. I don't know why. I've no justification for it. I don't want to stop people doing what they want to do. Maybe it's loneliness. I've been 30 years with the fuþorc. It's so close to me. But I've no one else around the same. #HeathenSky

Wyrd is the ground you walk on. You can go any which way. You choose. You can even dig down into it. Wyrd is the ground you're left standing on. It's the way you must go to be where you want. The things to avoid so to get there. It's the shifting of earth beneath your feet. #HeathenSky

Marvellous artist #HeathenSky

I made up this card to share links to 'eaglespit' & other things scop-like. eaglespit is a spoken-word album of verse inspired by Old English & Old Norse myth & poetic tradition, including alliterative verse. Featuring shield-art by Þorskegga Þorn. #HeathenSky #PoetrySky #AudiobookSky

After Ragnarok, a poem speaks of the gods' return & their finding gaming-pieces scattered in the grass. I feel that's us, returning to pre-Christian thought, finding hints like pieces of a boardgame, not knowing rules or if the bits are all there. It's how I think of my own Heathenry. #HeathenSky

The Knotsman's craft is undoing knots. The magical effects of this are told of in The Knotsman's Apprentice, available free as a sample from the audiobook. Here's a link to one of the platforms that carry The Knotsman. #PoetrySky #AudioSky #MagicSky www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/audiobooks/t...?

Recently finished piece…wishing you all a blessed Freyja’s Dæg! 🤗💛🪶 Gabrielle x Bluesky #witchsky #heathensky #pagansky #hedgewitch #animist

‘Seeking knowledge & guidance from the Land’… a recently finished piece, prints now available. Wishing you all a blessed Freyja’s dæg & wonderful weekend! 🤗💛🔥🪶 Gabrielle x #witchsky #heathensky #pagansky #hedgewitch #animist

A most fabulous artist. Recommended. #HeathenSky

Dream's a strong draw today, A collection of hands wrapped Around my back, shoulders, arms, Adding weight, saying 'Stay here. We've work for you. Work to be done to you.'

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#HeathenSky #PaganSky

(For the fylgja, maybe) Protector She may not stop the mountain's fall. Why should she? Mountains also face necessity. But she might be the barging figure, knocks you from its path. #HeathenSky

Belief in an all-powerful god begets confusion... did you cause this bad to happen to me? When there're gods not all-powerful, subject to how things are* Keep us from the worst. Help when they're able, choose to. From bad they'd no part in making, subject to it themselves. *as Wyrd. #HeathenSky

3rd in a moder-day Rune Poem? This for thorn. Slightly tongue-in-cheeck, but also slightly not. More if I think of them. "O...": "Thoughts, when thorny, are thoroughly vindictive; Eating esteem, urging the throwing Of false ideas, fighting loved ones." #HeathenSky #RunicSky

I began a kinda tongue-in -cheek modern day Rune Poem, for the fuþorc, keeping to the sound, meaning & verse form. This for feoh: "Fee is a first-thought, fine when it's paid with lateness looming. Lodge your receipts, to be spared from tax on expenses outlaid." #HeathenSky #RunicSky 1/2

I don't really know the reconstructed names of the Elder Futhark. I find them distant, alienating. But then those are the names that most people use... I prefer to use the Old English names, thorn rather than *thurisaz, or the modern English names, like thorn rather than *thurisaz. #HeathenSky

Ragnarok happens everyday. Everyday, Life & LustForLife cling to the tree. #HeathenSky

Of the many telling truths in Old Norse mythology, Odin & his brothers made the world. Only then they found they weren't alone. There was another tribe of gods already there. #HeathenSky

I would quite like to be remembered as a later Eddic poet. Yes, that'd nice. "Troubles need bring treasures; trade for a crop of braids." #Heathenry

Oh, let me share my friend's book series, set in a magical landscape in Herefordshire & the Welsh Marches. Heathen werewolf packs, ceremonial magicians, Sidhe & much more. The Wyrdwolf Series, by Alexa Duir. Pagan & LGBTQIA+ friendly. #PaganSky #HeathenSky www.were-wolf.com

#PoetrySky #AlliterativeVerse [For those who say "Speak English!"] Their voices are flying, Flocks together, In a sky that's known. Nattering, chattering, In tongue of mothers; Talk as music, Huge, unhesitant, At home with each other. 1/2

He took up the runes, then he fell back. Scattering them. A vicious kick to scatter them away. 9 nights of hearing them scream. He sat again in silence. They ticked ticked from where he had dropped them. Little sirens. Calling. Word followed word, deed followed deed, an addiction. #HeathenSky

#HeathenSky #PoetrySky This links to the 2nd poem in FGR's Spring Journal (quoted). #AlliterativeVerse A moment questioning self. What would Thor, Frey, Freya do? Odin answers. In the face of so much, the small & specific is a tested friend. Listen, he whispers alliteration.net/poetry/liste...

My barrel of a belly Is like a bole on a tree, And as the oak in its acre, I accept it...

This links to the shorter of two poems of mine in Paul's Journal (quoted), both written in #AlliterativeVerse. Yggr is a by-name for Odin. Here, the tree Yggdrasil is speaking. In the end, knowledge of self is sustaining. #HeathenSky #PoetrySky alliteration.net/poetry/yggr/

Paul is a champion for #AlliterativeVerse, with his website & these quarterly journals. If you want to see examples, historical or contemporary, or to understand the verse form & variations, do have a browse. I'll post links to my own poems for Odhinn in a bit. #HeathenSky #PoetrySky

#AstrologySky Pluto conj. Uranus conj. Asc. in Virgo/1st House. I keep reflecting on this in my natal. Like huge doors, keeps me hidden, keeps me distinct. From the outside, someone shaded, doesn't fit. Intense. Looking at the world, sees the shadows, sees alternatives. Wants to mend it.