GIFTS TO ODIN

every day you should

write a poem

like this

grow the sapling

of your poems

with a new branch and bough

slowly slowly

into a world tree

at the centre of your existence

and when odin comes

seeking wisdom in death

tell him

wisdom only grows

from life roots deep

new bough added each day

cut him a twig

from the foliage

give him leaves from the crown

these in one hand

fill the cup of the other

with pollen

this is all the wisdom

there is

in life from life

02.04.2018