My third-Sunday poem this month tackles the two seemingly at-odds concepts of its title. Must they be in conflict? Can a synthesis of the two be found? (I’m not going to get into the whole “post-modernism” thing in all this.) In a way, this poem is another of those poems about my poetry and my poetic mission, although less explicitly so than the other entries in that particular personal genre (e.g. A Skaldic Eagle Takes Flight, A Skaldic Eagle in the World, A Skaldic Manifesto.) Enjoy!
Next month, I will start something different. A poem that will span four monthly installments. Yes, a poem. The only two super-long poems I’ve written so far are both in my Eagle’s Mead, but it’s not one of them. I have something else in mind, which is, in a way, a bit overdue, and might have been done long ago, except that it’s going to be rather long. Not as long as those two, however. You’ll see what it is next month. The only hint I’ll give is that is something that would have fit in my Viking Poetry for Heathen Rites, and will go into whatever book I have as a sequel to VPfHR.
The current poem was posted back to my Patreon Blog in April 2023—subscribe there to get these poems months before they appear here, plus much more content that will never appear here. And my Patreon subscribers, of course, already know what that four-installment poem is.
Tradition and Modernity
A World of Tradition, A World of Modernity:
the one was lost in the waxing of the other.
But dire is the doom that Modernity has wrought:
our Western World is at war with itself.
Conflict is everywhere, a fight that’s existential,
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The Skaldic Eagle 