I thought I would take advantage of the Image post feature on the front of the site and post A GOD or GODDESS on the front page. Not sure if I will do this weekly or monthly….it depends on the time I have to complete my own projects I thought I would post a fact or poem about the god/goddess posted as part self challenge and to keep myself writing…so enjoy

Maybe Norse myths inspire poets. Not hard to think that with the number of poems out there, and even more interesting when these poems don’t come from heathen places but instead places that you would not expect. Hail to the myths that cause such inspiration.

Found on: Got Poetry.com

Yggdrasil(The World Tree)

by Moforious

spine of the universe
its vastness cannot be fathomed
cosmic winds rustle the leaves
a thousand worlds die, the force rips time

roots piercing all reality
entwined with worlds and minds
drawing life from our mere existence
consumer of ethereal energies

lives and deaths engraved in its bark
cryptic visions briefly glimpsed in dreams
like patches of sky through the branches
world tree growing without end

ancient beyond our concept of time
twisted limbs branching into a trillion paths
we live and feed, die like insects
trapped in its sap

planets and galaxies like dust in its eye
a blink and we’re gone endless cycle of life
eternal the endless cannot be carved

we’re flowing in patterns of its wood grain
the spirals and whirls
it cannot be changed

Written by a Canadian resident of Manitoulin Island. Very strange, because this again is a heathen myth appearing in mainstream poetry. I wonder how far reaching some of these myths have been. This one was posted on PoemHunter.com a neat place for some odd poems Read the rest of this entry »

Found this interesting article on a placed called the Yggdrasil, Land Foundation. I love the article, it is very well writen and describes the world tree very well…makes me wonder about some heathen connection. The website for the foundation is here:  Read the rest of this entry »