POETIC DUELS – VIKING TIMES
Here is something Norse & Interesting … During Viking times there existed a special kind of public duel between poets (“skald” in Old-Norse meaning “poet”). These poets composed skaldic poetry, one of the two kinds of Old Norse poetry in alliterative verse, the other being Eddic poetry. Skaldic poems were traditionally composed to honor kings. The verbal duel […]
GOOD MORNING
Form the black morning of the north in the north, I greet all with affection and the brightness of hope, for the best of fates to all who live and all who have lived, to those who are seen and to those who hide from the world, for to live and to act on […]
A FLOWER
To one you are a sensation aroma of life and of hope you bring beauty to a room. To another you are consolation mark of respect of a loved one a gift to a cherished memory. To me you represent life itself you grow and you blossom yet wither like me and […]
THIS MEMORY
I created you as an image to remind me that the devil inside me will always be free to tempt me in my most vulnerable state and rip me back to that prior terrible fate of weakness, escape and sorrow decline overthinking drowned in goblets of wine where madness had me, wouldn’t let […]