Best Wyrd Poems
A Weird Word Is Wyrd:The word Wyrd is Old English and means 'destiny'. From the same root comes Urd, one of the Norns, and the Germanic words Werth, Warth, and Wurth, which mean 'become'. The root word means 'to turn' or 'to become' and relates to that which has...
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Categories:
wyrd, mythology,
Form:
Narrative
Wyrd Talking
Sometimes
I think
they talk to themselves
through us
not exactly word-for-word
though the sense of it
then I (re)member
they are we, or was, us, at sometime
then we remember again
they don't make plain sense
playing wyrd-for-wyrd in-stead
sew halves, two find
grain-by-grain
frisson of recognition
in (an)other
Sometimes...
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Categories:
wyrd, allusion, analogy, language, word
Form:
Free verse
Wyrd Wheel of Wonder and WoeI can do my rune rede uncorrupted.
The Ward nurses word can not be trusted.,
Nurse allows me to eat at the cafe,
I will be pissed off ,trusting them, led astray .
Will go outside on the stoep ;be alone.
Go on a strike, license lost, not in...
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Categories:
wyrd, deep, destiny,
Form:
Heroic Couplet