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<title>Gebo</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_gebo.svg"><img src="../img/runes/gebo.svg" alt="Gebo rune" title="Gebo rune"></a></p>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_gebo.svg"><img src="../img/runes/gebo.svg" alt="Gebo rune" title="Gebo rune"></a></p>
<h1>Gebo</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: gift</p>
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<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The day of our union (or as much as can be<br/>
<p><strong>The day of our union</strong> (or as much as can be<br/>
while we're separated by a Veil and a Dirac Sea)<br/>
is sooner than I thought fast approaching,<br/>
and I don't know what to offer as my dowry.</p>
<p>Oh, what to give, what to give.</p>
<p>Oh, <strong>what to give, what to give.</strong></p>
<p>I would give you impenetrable skin,<br/>
but what if ruptured your appendix?<br/>
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<p>Oh, what to give, what to give.</p>
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<title>Wunjo</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_wunjo.svg"><img src="../img/runes/wunjo.svg" alt="Wunjo rune" title="Wunjo rune"></a></p>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_wunjo.svg"><img src="../img/runes/wunjo.svg" alt="Wunjo rune" title="Wunjo rune"></a></p>
<h1>Wunjo</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: joy, perfection</p>
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<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Where do our nerves know where to end?<br/>
<p><strong>Where do our nerves know where to end?</strong><br/>
X equals X times two,<br/>
all but nought to the stratosphere.<br/>
I touch your cheek, and I feel the sheer<br/>
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I should take care of it, I think, to minimize<br/>
the pain transferred from this bond of our life.</p>
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<title>Hagalaz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_haglaz_variant.svg"><img src="../img/runes/hagalaz.svg" alt="Hagalaz rune" title="Hagalaz rune"></a></p>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_haglaz_variant.svg"><img src="../img/runes/hagalaz.svg" alt="Hagalaz rune" title="Hagalaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Hagalaz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: hail</p>
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<p>You told me<br/>
we were<br/>
stagnating.</p>
<strong>stagnating</strong>.</p>
<p>Self-baptismal in just-thawed lake<br/>
I had just enough strength to break<br/>
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but the thought of ever losing you bades me<br/>
to accept hail's cloak, frozen sleeping.</p>
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<title>Nauthiz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_naudiz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/nauthiz.svg" alt="Nauthiz rune" title="Nauthiz rune"></a></p>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_naudiz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/nauthiz.svg" alt="Nauthiz rune" title="Nauthiz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Nauthiz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: need</p>
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that to even move a twitch is to hurt.<br/>
How nice it would be to lie down and sleep...</p>
<p>Legs stumble, steady arm<br/>
<p><strong>Legs stumble, steady arm<br/>
around my shoulders<br/>
keeping me upright.<br/>
"We've come so far,<br/>
Lethe. Just one more time<br/>
Lethe. Just one more time</strong><br/>
I have to ask you to bloody<br/>
your hands, whatever, claws,<br/>
and fight."</p>
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Until one day came a change of heart:<br/>
"Lethe, I can't do this alone.<br/>
The living, I mean.<br/>
Please <em>help me.</em>"</p>
<strong>Please <em>help me.</em></strong>"</p>
<p>So many shattered souls for which I must atone.<br/>
My weight on your shoulders,<br/>
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I have come to end the cycle of puppets.<br/>
I have come to make myself reborn."</p>
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<title>Isa</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_isaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/isa.svg" alt="Isa rune" title="Isa rune"></a></p>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_isaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/isa.svg" alt="Isa rune" title="Isa rune"></a></p>
<h1>Isa</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: ice</p>
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<p>Metaclysma,<br/>
inter-world void.<br/>
No touch, no voice,<br/>
<strong>No touch, no voice,</strong><br/>
silhouette of black,<br/>
all other senses in lack.<br/>
Just eternal light.</p>
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caretakers, unworthy to be named.<br/>
To them, I think, I am a saint,<br/>
a goddess who made sacrifice<br/>
to give them this world that once was spring<br/>
but now sleeps under blanket of ice.</p>
to give them <strong>this world that once was spring<br/>
but now sleeps under blanket of ice.</strong></p>
<p>Tomorrow steeps my Holiday<br/>
where come commoners to pray<br/>
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If you'll still have me as your wife.<br/>
If you'll still live with me on that mountainside.</p>
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<title>Jera</title>
<p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_jeran.svg"><img src="../img/runes/jera.svg" alt="Jera rune" title="Jera rune"></a></p>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_jeran.svg"><img src="../img/runes/jera.svg" alt="Jera rune" title="Jera rune"></a></p>
<h1>Jera</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: harvest</p>
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<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I plant scattered words<br/>
in the garden of my notebook<br/>
<p><strong>I plant scattered words<br/>
in the garden of my notebook</strong><br/>
and wait to see which will sprout<br/>
aboveground and take a look<br/>
at the sun<br/>
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last metro train heading home<br/>
now departing the station.</p>
<p>You slowly opened up to me<br/>
<p><strong>You slowly opened up to me</strong><br/>
like a flower blooming,<br/>
yet inside nearly bursting<br/>
at the seams<br/>
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a part two<br/>
worthy of your love.</p>
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<title>Eihwaz</title>
<p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_iwaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/eihwaz.svg" alt="Eihwaz rune" title="Eihwaz rune"></a></p>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_iwaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/eihwaz.svg" alt="Eihwaz rune" title="Eihwaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Eihwaz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: yew</p>
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that provides means to escape<br/>
while from death or mortal wound you do not waver</p>
<p>but I'd rather you chose to survive,<br/>
<p>but <strong>I'd rather you chose to survive</strong>,<br/>
to not force me to say goodbye,<br/>
to slowly heal the impaled wound<br/>
instead of perishing all too soon.</p>
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orange, obsidian webbed stitching,<br/>
and I've got to see this through<br/>
to<br/>
the end,<br/>
where lies every beginning.</p>
<strong>the end,<br/>
where lies every beginning.</strong></p>
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<title>Perthro</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_pertho.svg"><img src="../img/runes/perthro.svg" alt="Perthro rune" title="Perthro rune"></a></p>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_pertho.svg"><img src="../img/runes/perthro.svg" alt="Perthro rune" title="Perthro rune"></a></p>
<h1>Perthro</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: divination tool</p>
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That, no matter how dark and cold between you and I it gets,<br/>
the clouds will eventually break and the sun will shine again.</p>
<p>But still I have no clue what the fates will us bestow<br/>
<p><strong>But still I have no clue what the fates will us bestow</strong><br/>
when it gets longer between our touch and what words pass are cold<br/>
with disappointment, misunderstandings, or simply had a bad day<br/>
and, although still loving, cannot any measure of warmth feign.</p>
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to sugar everything, last breath of a world that for me did not wait,<br/>
beckoning me to twist the lid and allow myself to play.</p>
<p>"No people are more addicted to divination by omens and lots."<br/>
<p><strong>"No people are more addicted to divination by omens and lots."</strong><br/>
My genes mark me no different. But the only words I ever sought<br/>
were from you, my lilac spring, and even then mostly<br/>
I just wanted to know if you still loved me.</p>
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But this, I feel, I insist you need to know:<br/>
my love for you will always burn no matter how buried by snow."</p>
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<title>Algiz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_algiz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/algiz.svg" alt="Algiz rune" title="Algiz rune"></a></p>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_algiz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/algiz.svg" alt="Algiz rune" title="Algiz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Algiz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: elk</p>
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and I'm halfway to drowning<br/>
not knowing how to breathe with a non-human face.</p>
<p>Someone once called me the Rainbow Bridge,<br/>
being the crossing point between so many worlds,<br/>
<p>Someone once called me <strong>the Rainbow Bridge,<br/>
being the crossing point between so many worlds</strong>,<br/>
but I am neither bi<br/>
nor could I ever abide<br/>
frost over the surface of this roiling sea<br/>
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and your fingertips brushing the back of my neck,<br/>
the temples where bone and antler connect,<br/>
are the only reminder you're here to protect<br/>
me, promised by palm to keep me sane<br/>
me, <strong>promised by palm to keep me sane</strong><br/>
even if draconity ever overcame<br/>
me and my body forcibly changed<br/>
to that of a beast.</p>
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until you can see my normal face again<br/>
and in the meantime reassure that I'm safe.</p>
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<title>Sowelo</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Long-branch_Sol.svg"><img src="../img/runes/sowelo.svg" alt="Sowelo rune" title="Sowelo rune"></a></p>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Long-branch_Sol.svg"><img src="../img/runes/sowelo.svg" alt="Sowelo rune" title="Sowelo rune"></a></p>
<h1>Sowelo</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: sun</p>
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<p>The wind in its wealth carries your words:<br/>
<i>keep going, get a move on.</i></p>
<p>I was told the Eschaton<br/>
was but a cleansing that stretched out long<br/>
<p>I was told <strong>the Eschaton<br/>
was but a cleansing that stretched out long</strong><br/>
to destroy all that prevented me<br/>
from accepting<br/>
my title as Solstice and my being as Lethe,<br/>
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So when plumbs on the dark, my love,<br/>
grant me the light to survive.</p>
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<title>Tiewaz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_tiwaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/tiewaz.svg" alt="Tiewaz rune" title="Tiewaz rune"></a></p>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_tiwaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/tiewaz.svg" alt="Tiewaz rune" title="Tiewaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Tiewaz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: Tyr</p>
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angel number, all portals<br/>
to the outside world<br/>
for the crime of poetry taken away.<br/>
Keeping my mouth shut means safety<br/>
but heavy conscience, soul decay.<br/>
<strong>Keeping my mouth shut means safety<br/>
but heavy conscience, soul decay.</strong><br/>
I might as well be no one at all.</p>
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<title>Berkana</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_berkanan.svg"><img src="../img/runes/berkana.svg" alt="Berkana rune" title="Berkana rune"></a></p>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_berkanan.svg"><img src="../img/runes/berkana.svg" alt="Berkana rune" title="Berkana rune"></a></p>
<h1>Berkana</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: birch</p>
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I took my middle name<br/>
in hopes of carrying with me always<br/>
the warmth of an early spring day,<br/>
a gentle impassioned hug from my wife,<br/>
<strong>a gentle impassioned hug from my wife</strong>,<br/>
the promise that soon all will be okay<br/>
and together we'll build a kinder life.</p>
and <strong>together we'll build a kinder life.</strong></p>
<p>Berkana makes things grow,<br/>
even after the storms have thrown<br/>
all down<br/>
in shambles onto the ground.<br/>
The seedling that blooms after wildfire,<br/>
<strong>The seedling that blooms after wildfire</strong>,<br/>
alone amidst the ashes.<br/>
Blaze<br/>
razed<br/>
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Stand strong and steal what you can from this world of men<br/>
and I promise you I'll make it worth your effort in the end."</p>
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<title>Ehwaz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ehwaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/ehwaz.svg" title="Ehwaz rune" alt="Ehwaz rune"></a></p>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ehwaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/ehwaz.svg" title="Ehwaz rune" alt="Ehwaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Ehwaz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: horse</p>
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whether half-asleep in drowsy lust<br/>
or the fateful day my vessel decides<br/>
it's time to return to dust.<br/>
How gently<br/>
<strong>How gently<br/>
you will exhume me from my body,<br/>
whisk me so swiftly away<br/>
whisk me so swiftly away</strong><br/>
to a hospital in a place I cannot here name<br/>
to evade<br/>
the Second Death.<br/>
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<p>Psychopomp and Rainbow Bridge,<br/>
the two of us whose entire fates hinge<br/>
on being able to pass between worlds.<br/>
on <strong>being able to pass between worlds</strong>.<br/>
The first colors to breach the metaclysma:<br/>
speckled red and shiny merle.</p>
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<title>Mannaz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_mannaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/mannaz.svg" alt="Mannaz rune" title="Mannaz rune"></a></p>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_mannaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/mannaz.svg" alt="Mannaz rune" title="Mannaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Mannaz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: man</p>
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<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Our cooperation<br/>
enhances our freedom.<br/>
<p><strong>Our cooperation<br/>
enhances our freedom.</strong><br/>
It seems like a paradox, but it's true.<br/>
Think about it: if you come down with the flu<br/>
or a cold or some other illness,<br/>
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location always known.<br/>
Come,<br/>
my love,<br/>
let us fill the gaps in each other,<br/>
<strong>let us fill the gaps in each other,<br/>
let us our blind spots cover.<br/>
The strength to do together what neither can alone:<br/>
The strength to do together what neither can alone</strong>:<br/>
to carve out a world and maintain a home.</p>
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<title>Laguz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_laukaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/laguz.svg" alt="Laguz rune" title="Laguz rune"></a></p>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_laukaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/laguz.svg" alt="Laguz rune" title="Laguz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Laguz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: water</p>
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<blockquote>
<p>"I've always found it strange<br/>
that, in hypotheticals<br/>
of you losing control and going feral,<br/>
of <strong>you losing control and going feral</strong>,<br/>
you always imagine your draconic form.<br/>
Not the one, the chaotic, proven to,<br/>
when lost control, cause massive harm.<br/>
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<p>"I love you."</p>
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<title>Inguz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ingwaz_variant.svg"><img src="../img/runes/inguz.svg" alt="Inguz rune" title="Inguz rune"></a></p>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ingwaz_variant.svg"><img src="../img/runes/inguz.svg" alt="Inguz rune" title="Inguz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Inguz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: Ing/Frey</p>
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<p>"Why are you crying?<br/>
We are going to be reunited<br/>
before the sun rises.<br/>
Before twelve more hours pass<br/>
I will be in your steady arms at last."</p>
<strong>Before twelve more hours pass<br/>
I will be in your steady arms at last.</strong>"</p>
<p>Because I must ask you, dear friend,<br/>
to return to the Inside<br/>
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I know that you carried some guilt<br/>
at Rainroom's last painful parting,<br/>
but here it's turned up to twenty-eight.<br/>
I don't for the life of me understand<br/>
<strong>I don't for the life of me understand<br/>
why you agonize<br/>
over something that happened in fourth grade<br/>
over something that happened in fourth grade</strong><br/>
or why you feel things would have turned out better<br/>
had you to certain individuals been able to say goodbye.<br/>
Isn't this what you wanted, Lethe?<br/>
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this one thing<br/>
before your vessel will let itself die.</p>
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<title>Dagaz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_dagaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/dagaz.svg" alt="Dagaz rune" title="Dagaz rune"></a></p>
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<h1>Dagaz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: day</p>
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and I fail to see how this is "restoration"<br/>
to be so beat upon<br/>
by an uncaring sun.<br/>
I can only see my wife<br/>
<strong>I can only see my wife<br/>
when falls upon the earth the covering of night<br/>
or when the bedroom window blinds are drawn<br/>
and I spend whole afternoons in Morpheus' song.</p>
and I spend whole afternoons in Morpheus' song.</strong></p>
<p>I heard in a half-whispered voice<br/>
that the glittering myth<br/>
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mine in the past included,<br/>
is now a lifetime perdition's portent.</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_othalan.svg"><img src="../img/runes/othala.svg" alt="Othala rune" title="Othala rune"></a></p>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_othalan.svg"><img src="../img/runes/othala.svg" alt="Othala rune" title="Othala rune"></a></p>
<h1>Othala</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: homeland</p>
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this world that I belong to,<br/>
these spirits I must be in league with.</p>
<p>For this is<br/>
<p>For <strong>this is<br/>
the inheritance<br/>
of my blood,<br/>
this homeland I carry everywhere I go<br/>
and cannot ever hope to escape from.<br/>
and cannot ever hope to escape from.</strong><br/>
These three errant and conflicting strains<br/>
each with its own legitimate claim<br/>
over my body, my heart, my soul.</p>
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hands of mine<br/>
the only homeland."</p>
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<title>Ear</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ear.svg"><img src="../img/runes/ear.svg" alt="Ear rune" title="Ear rune"></a></p>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ear.svg"><img src="../img/runes/ear.svg" alt="Ear rune" title="Ear rune"></a></p>
<h1>Ear</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: hanging tree / grave</p>
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<p>A modern poem:</p>
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<p>Death and loss are a part of life.<br/>
For one thing to live, another must die,<br/>
<p><strong>Death and loss are a part of life.<br/>
For one thing to live, another must die</strong>,<br/>
or maybe a great many things,<br/>
the blood on my hands accumulating over time.</p>
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<p>For this to come to pass I know is certain,<br/>
for even the best of my secrets I could not hide forever.<br/>
In Ragnarok even the gods from their lives were severed.<br/>
It mattered not<br/>
<strong>It mattered not<br/>
how mightily anyone fought:<br/>
for all ill-fated was drawn life's curtain.</p>
<p>All that anyone could control<br/>
was how they reacted to it,<br/>
how the coming end they greeted.</p>
how the coming end they greeted.</strong></p>
<p>And the coming end I seek,<br/>
if this is the fate I am doomed to keep,<br/>
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Now take me to Sablade, set us free.<br/>
We have earned our three days of rest.</p>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ac.svg"><img src="../img/runes/ac.svg" alt="Ac rune" title="Ac rune"></a></p>
<h1>Ac</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: oak</p>
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<p>There is not a known Norwegian rune poem for Ac.</p>
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<title>Ior</title>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ior.svg"><img src="../img/runes/ior.svg" alt="Ior rune" title="Ior rune"></a></p>
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<p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ior.svg"><img src="../img/runes/ior.svg" alt="Ior rune" title="Ior rune"></a></p>
<h1>Ior</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: world-serpent</p>
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<p>Sealing myself in skin of scales<br/>
means dropping the markings of sex.<br/>
means <strong>dropping the markings of sex.<br/>
Creature divine that lies truly between<br/>
but sans the blessings of femaleness.</p>
but sans the blessings of femaleness.</strong></p>
<p>Nidhogg lies trapped underneath<br/>
the thick roots of Yggdrasil,<br/>
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with my entire Inside-bound life,<br/>
waiting for me on the other side.</p>
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