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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_yr.svg"><img src="../img/runes/yr.svg" alt="Yr rune" title="Yr rune"></a></p>
<h1>Yr</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: archer</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
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<li>total focus/flow</li>
<li>obsessive desire to create</li>
<li>need to pay close attention to detail</li>
<li>do the job right the first time</li>
</ul>
<p>Yr can be useful for:</p>
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<li>studying</li>
<li>concentrating on the creation of art</li>
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<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Yr byþ æþelinga and eorla gehwæs<br>wyn and wyrþmynd, byþ on wicge fæger,<br>fæstlic on færelde, fyrdgeatewa sum.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Yr is a source of joy and honour to every prince and knight;<br>it looks well on a horse and is a reliable equipment for a journey.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Yr.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
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<p>English classes have always been to me<br/>
a sort of Sword of Damocles.<br/>
I do what I will, but will it be enough<br/>
to be accepted, or just deemed crude and rough?</p>
<p><strong>I cannot help the way I write,<br/>
self-taught and shut away from the light</strong><br/>
and having to seek it in the cracks in the walls,<br/>
not big enough for detection but for thriving too small.</p>
<p>And even though the school doors to me are closed<br/>
and in most days<br/>
I do not hang<br/>
in my father's rage's woes,<br/>
it does not change that my artistic growth<br/>
has been forever marred, twisted, contorted<br/>
into an off-putting and alien shape.</p>
<p>This aberration<br/>
is all that I am.<br/>
This demonic growth<br/>
is my only hope<br/>
for surviving in this world of men.</p>
<p>For this world offers no true salvation<br/>
for a woman such as myself.<br/>
Quiet my heart and keep my mouth shut,<br/>
or be locked away in the guise of "mental help":<br/>
what kind of a choice is this?<br/>
Men will see a woman contorting<br/>
to ease the pain of their inflicted torture<br/>
and deem her "insane", "hysterical", "untrustful"<br/>
as an excuse to lock her<br/>
away.</p>
<p>I want to scream into the heavens<br/>
until my throat is raw.<br/>
I want to tear into a man's throat<br/>
and chew,<br/>
brutally gnaw,<br/>
off the sinews<br/>
connecting skull to maw.<br/>
Now you're the voiceless one,<br/>
mutilated and mute.<br/>
Nothing of value was lost.</p>
<p>Maybe I am a lost cause,<br/>
but only to being complicit<br/>
in my own desecration.</p>
<p>Laser focus,<br/>
beast's tunnel vision.<br/>
What say man's heavens<br/>
to a woman who will not be silenced?<br/>
Only a god's hand can strike me down<br/>
now.<br/>
And if he is real, why haven't<br/>
I been smote yet?</p>
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