Friday, October 31, 2014

Boundaries


Boundaries, like fences -- keep out or keep in
No trespassing this marker, or transference within
No No No NO NO -- reads the sign on the gate
Boundaries, like fences -- are not meant to tempt fate

Inside is protected and safe for one's own
Outside are outlaws who seek for one's gold
Inside are one's treasures -- love, wisdom and trust,
Esteem, joy, and memories -- be they diamonds or rust
Outside are provokers and ill-gotten gains,
Thieves, rustlers, and liars on runaway trains

Boundaries, like fences need strong reinforcement
When used to defend the prized brood mares, and horses
Boundaries, like fences need watchers and guardians
When rustlers and thieves come to holes meant for watering
All the prized treasures and gifts of the owners of
Boundaries

Boundaries, like fences need mending when breached
And wear down more quickly as assaults do repeat
Boundaries, like fences can stand just so long
When left unattended, their gates left unarmed
And gates left unarmed around boundaries, like fences
Without posts and cross beams, are useless defenses

When used to defend all the useless endeavors
Of those who are used to befriending the fair-weather
Friends of the careless, the thoughtless, whatever's
Of those who make poor use of all their great treasures
And boundaries

Heads up

~~~~~~~flow~~~~~~

Flowtrvlr
©2002

Thursday, October 30, 2014

She Collects Broken Hearts


She collects broken hearts
Like seashells and autographs
Stuffs them in drawers filled with
Knickknacks and photographs
Tucked next to letters from lovers
Tied up in bright
Ribbons that trail along
Never quite giving them up
A thread carries on
Till the next one comes in

(Barely pausing for breath
Between kisses)

She never gives in
To the death of one
Leaving them strewn
All around her parameters
Mixing them in with her
Present day paramours
Filling her life to the brim
With these amateurs
Keeping forever her part
Of the life of them
Hidden from sight
Yet still anchored
Inside of her
Fitful, in fevered daze,
They toil on
In spite of her
Wearing away all resistance
The sight of her
Diligent efforts at keeping
Escape at bay

(Let's them reveal her true nature)

Leaving her battle-torn
Weary from keeping them
Prisoner, she's wearing thin
Still she refuses them
Never will let them go
Though they wreck havoc
In her empty shell of a soul
She's a winner in her own
Perverted sick mind
Of a lovely game
Holding on to these
Lost pieces of fame
That once beat
For her only
Now lost in time
They relentlessly turn in graves
She now makes her home in this hell

(Her collection of old broken hearts)

Flowtrvlr
©2003/2010

Over and Done


How do you know when it's over and done
When over is over and over is done
When wrong can't be righted and over can't be come
When something is empty and all's come undone

No whisper, no silence can speak to my ear
No voices, no calling, no words I can hear
There's simply no way to retrieve what I fear
Is over and over is way overdone

So I'll leave without saying good-bye now, my dear
Like you left me forever long ago as I'd feared
On my heart is your imprint, all faded with tears
But I'll heal in good time, now I'm done

You reached out and grabbed me, pulling me in
With fervor and fever and love talk pretend
Only I didn't know you were fooling, my friend
Now I do, now it's over, I'm done

Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever learn well
Or just keep on believing in my own fairy tales
Of how good love would be if it isn't to fail
I don't know, I just know that I'm over and done

So read the fine print and find I'm shipping out
Off to life as before you and without a doubt
I'll be better off lonely than I was with the drought
From waiting for you, now you're over and I'm done

Flowtrvlr
©2003

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Complex Modulations


Complex modulations
Innovative incantations
Irresistible gyrations
In notated figurations

Manipulation in formation
As I stand in contemplation
Wondering at the revelation
Of my former slight relation
ship
now
I get it
why I couldn't sing the tune

Flowtrvlr
©2002

Worrisome Things


Worrisome things bother my mind
Troublesome tumblings trying to find
A weaseling, slithering, sneak hole within
To set up an outpost in hopes they will win
And sabotage once again my right to be
Peaceful, encouraged, hopeful and free

With trembling insides I venture forth
Slowly, in tentative steps, a new course
Of broadened horizons stretching my mind
Bringing along my spirit in kind
Showing my heart a new path to walk
In faith that things longed for are more than just talk

I gather my resources honed throughout life
And sharpen my senses for things that devise
I lift up my prayers unto God for the grace
To lovingly temper my fears with the faith
That all that can be will unfold with a plan
As I meditate and do all that I can

To honestly, lovingly, kindly ensure
That I bring to the table fruits that are pure
Cleansed from all pettiness and uncaring schemes
Leaving only the truest of heart's finest dreams
That therein the harvest when feasting's begun
Will nourish and fill kindred souls with it's love

Artwumyn
©2002

Foundationally Speaking


Foundationally speaking
Fundamentally tweaking
Intentionally seeking
To turn a head or two

Irascibly leading
Irrationally pleading
Fastidiously needing
To follow every clue

Felicitously feeling
Figuratively revealing
Innocuously appealing
To counteract the view

Irrepressibly sowing
Innumerably growing
Superfluously knowing
To supplicate the few

Artwumyn
©2002

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Deep Thoughts Haiku


Time is Endless, Fleeting

Time is endless and
Fleeting but nevertheless
Time is on our side


In Darkness I Wait

In darkness I wait
Timing each sound's rhythmic beat
Imagining sight


In a Looking-Glass

In a looking-glass
All the images appear
Closer than they seem


Intuit

Intuition is
Seeing from the inside out
The feeling within


Quiet Thoughts

Quiet thoughts settle
Deeply in pools of nature
While minds ponder life


Wisdom Seldom Speaks

Wisdom seldom speaks
Without a lesson given
As an offering

Artwumyn
©2002

Monday, October 27, 2014

Fool's Gold


You won't never fin' no precious ore
Way yur pannin' in this stream
Yur a bigger fool than any tha' I seen
You keep thinkin' that by settlin' down
An' sloshing grit and silt
You'll be richer than beyon' yur wildest dreams

Nuthin' but fool's gold
S'all you'll ever fin'
The longer you keep pannin' in this stream

Nuthin' but fool's gold
S'all you'll ever fin'
She took yur heart an' left behind her dream

Nuthin' but fool's gold
S'all you'll ever fin'
An' fool's gold t'ain't seem nuthin' new t'me

Nuthin' but fool's gold
S'all you'll ever fin'
An' fool's gold ain't done nuthin' good fer me

You always was a foolish girl
Dream'd half yur life away
Wantin' things you know tha' you cain't have
Don't you know when you been beaten
Cain't you ever say 'enuf
Fool who thought tha' love was true this time

Nuthin' but fool's gold
S'all you'll ever fin'
Cain't you see tha' yur jes' wastin' time

Nuthin' but fool's gold
S'all you'll ever fin'
G'wan back home now'n get her of't yur mind

If I tol' you once, I tol' you twice
Don't never cross tha' bridge
It's too fer gon' and swayin' to beat th' band
It'll only lead t'a broken heart, 'n you'll come cryin' home
'n I ain't got the time it takes to mend

Nuthin' but fool's gold
S'all you'll ever fin'
'n fool's gold t'ain't seem'd any good t'me

Nuthin' but fool's gold
She'll likely blow yur mind
Firs' chance she gets she'll only leave again

Nuthin' but fool's gold
S'all you'll ever fin'
The longer you keep pannin' in this stream

Nuthin' but fool's gold
S'time to change yur mind
She took yur heart 'n left behind her dream

...took yur heart 'n left behind her dream

She took yur heart 'n left be-hi--i--nn--nd her--er dream.........................

a luv song o' sorts...........

Flowtrvlr
©2002

Win a Trip to the Bahamas


Win a trip to the Bahamas
Ski the alpine wilderness
Bask in sunny Acapulco
Surf in tandem with the best

Ride the cable cars careening
Climb the stairway to the Stars
Take a cruise around the Islands
See the plays and hit the bars

Lose and win it all in Reno
Then go swimming in the Lake
Pan for gold near old Ft. Sutter
Save your findings for old age

Hike the Peak and walk the Surface
Camp the Pleiades with her
Gaze at summer constellations
Through the eyes of Griffith's birds

Poke around the ancient Boardwalk
But don't Monopolize your name
With too many Revolutions
Round the Gettysburg address

When in fall you find in Providence
The perfect foil for your old dame
Just be sure she leaves her luggage
For the baggage slows the game

Then when winter comes in sleeting
And you're sitting by the fire
Snuggling up close with your sweetie
You will know why you're so tired

;-)

Flowtrvlr
©2002

Sunday, October 26, 2014

The Doorway


Standing in a doorway
One can see both sides,
But not fully

It takes a step either way
To enter a room,
Or to exit another

Standing in a doorway
It may be easy to imagine
What is not really there

It takes a step either way
To find the reality
Of one's decision

But sometimes one has to
Fully enter a room
Before it's beauty can be seen

Sometimes one has to
Cross a room before
Another doorway can be seen

And sometimes another doorway leads
To a room one has been seeking
When standing in a doorway

Artwumyn
©2002

When Deep Comes to Surface


Deep in the ocean where the light never shines
Colder than winter and the pressure is high

Deep under mountains far beneath any mines
Hotter than Hades and the pressure is high

Deep into space where the wind never blows
No place for breathing and the pressure is high

Deep into loneliness where love never flows
Devoid of feelings and the pressure is high

Deep in the mind where the madness grows
Filled with confusion and the pressure is high


Deep into pressure cracks appear in the lines
Come to the surface before it gets too high
Deep comes to surface when it gets too high
Cold cracks the surface
Heat melts the surface
Space haunts the surface
Loss dulls the surface
Deep lack of surface breaks the lines in the mind

Come to the surface, the pressure's much too high
Come to the surface where the water is fine
Come to the surface where the earth is kind
Come to the surface where sunlight shines
Come to the surface, put your hand in mine


and let love flow~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Artwumyn
©2002

Saturday, October 25, 2014

Easy


Easy
like winter white crystalline water
trickling down over granite rocks
in rivulets falling head over heels
to ice-covered rivers with snowy banks

it flows

Easy
like warm bluegreen waters
lapping at lazy gray posts of
weather-beaten sagging piers
leading to soft white sandy beaches
of quiet Caribbean Islands
in the off-season

just relaxing

Easy
like walking slowly on a tree-lined path
on a Monday morning in a city park
with only pigeons and ducks from the
pond for company and daydreaming of
summer in the springtime

so smooth

Easy
like lying on clean sheets and puffy pillows
on a cool fall Sunday morning with half a cup
of coffee or tea, a half finished newspaper and
a contented pet curled up at your feet, talking
on the phone to your dearest friend about
nothing at all and everything that counts

so comfortable

Easy
like peace in winter
joy in springtime
hope in summer
thankfulness in fall

like grateful hearts
faithful friends
loving families

so right
as it should be
so easy
just be
easy


~~~~~~let it flow~~~~~~~~

Flowtrvlr
©2002

Soul Cleansing Waters


Cleansing soul
Crystalline waters
Flowing downward
From the headlands
To the sea

Tumbling over
Rocky ledges
Sifting impurities
Left behind
As soil
To be aerated
serrated
alleviated
seeded
feeded
weeded
watered
sunned
thinned
rethought
grown
with measures
of truth
for harvesting

By the soul
Crystalline waters
Flowing downward
From the headlands
To the sea

Artwumyn
©2002

Soul Search


I sit, I wait, in silence best
I center down my restlessness
I think on all life's mystery
If understanding come to me
I gratefully thank the one who is
For granting life and joy to give


I seek to find and entered, stay 
In fellowship with ancient ways
Whose wisdom is it's own reward
In truth, in love, in living toward
A path of peace where I must go
To journey towards the river's flow


For rivers flow both deep and wide
Their waters rush and sometimes hide
What lies beneath the flood and then
They sometimes hold their waters in
And stand in pools while levels deep
So life renews while rivers sleep


To understand the river's flow
One must beneath the surface go
To learn the depths and see the land
Through which the river's path must wind
For gently flowing rivers laze
Across both field and forest glade


A time for fish and insects like
To raise their young and live their life
Then when time has come for change
The river roars to life again
And taking with it in it's cage
Are all the deaths to which it sates


Until it's spent and pours it's breath
Into the sea and lies in death
And thus it ends, the river's life
And I in contemplation, rife
Through all I know to understand
What part I play in river's hand


I sit, I wait, in silence best
My soul renewed and now at rest

Artwumyn
©2002

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Center of the Circle


In the center of the circle
Sits a sister of the night
She has come to seek a vision
On her journey towards the light

Wanting wisdom fully measured
She is waiting for a sign
From the universal cycle
Pouring out eternal life

As she meditates in silence
Songs of nature fill the air
Forest dryads sing to naiads
Softly in their whispered care

Gentle breezes brush the needles
Of the pines in winded flair
And the chirping of the crickets
Warn of trespassers who dare

When a hush comes to the midnight
All attend with breath apart
Listening closely to the message
Given slowly to the heart

As a tear trails down in shadow
Sister rises for her flight
She must now complete her journey
With her wisdom gained this night

It is not in sorrow leaving
It is wisdom's price of gold
But she'd rather give up everything
For freedom loved and told

Still she smiles in her welcome
To the dawning of the day
And the sunrise shows her colors
Gold and yellow light her way

Universal in the circle
Is the cycle of all life
Forward motion of a journey
By a sister of the night

Faerie Sojourner
©2002

Journey In


I must now abide
Within
Inside the spirit
Of my soul

Where imperfection
Doubt and fear
Cannot reveal
Their hated goal
I must then go where no one sees
To find the deepest inner core
To bring to love that part of me
That must now be the open door

I must now save the inner voice
Before she silences my soul
I dare not miss the calling choice
To bring to light the fire below

With torch to light my trembling way
My hand to wall to steady me
I will descend the heart of me
And find the treasure that I seek

And then once found, will it reveal
All that I need to life revive?
No, only that one thing I need
To bring my spirit back alive

To light of day, to health of dawn
To warm, soft earth and healing life
My journey to resume again
With renewed spirit in my pack

~~let it flow~~

Flowtrvlr
©2002

It's A Rainbow World


It's a rainbow world
Don't it all kinda swirl
Around you when you see
Colors blending,
Flowing free

It's a rainbow world
For this lesbian girl
Just picking her way
Home
Down that yellow brick road

It's a fantastic dream
Full of opportune schemes
Everywhere I look
I see another hook

Serendipiticious
Hueing precipiticious
Flowing colors so delicious
I'm awash in rainbow wishes

It's a rainbow world
For a multicolored girl
Dancing to her heart's content
In this lively continent

~~~~just flowing along~~~~

Flowtrvlr
©2002

Just Looking


I've had many friends in life, seems fortune smiled each day
Some came by me for just a while, and some have gone their way

My sister came to be my friend,
And then my best-est too,
For after many years of life,
She's remained tried and true

And over time I've also learned
Some values of my own
To be my own best friend is good
Especially when alone

But there is another kind of friend missing for a while
Seems nearly fifteen years have passed without a best friend's smile
And not for lack of looking, nor for lack of need
Not for lack of anything, I guess, just lack for me

But travelers do get lonely,
And sojourners feel the strain,
When years go by without a love
They sometimes cry in pain

Someone to laugh with me in spring, in summer love the sun,
To work together all year long, sharing what may come
Someone to cuddle in the night, and spoon when it gets cold
To live and love in full and lean, to grow on till we're old

So if you spy a traveler, wandering lone and free,
Who says she's looking for a friend and wants some company
If she is kind and true of heart, a friend to all she meets
If you've a love to call your own, please send her on to me

~~Flow

Flowtrvlr
©2002

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Interludes


Interludes
Intruding
Enter fusing
In my mind
Interrupting
My soft musings
Of the love I hope to find

In the dreamland
Of my pillow
In the wakeful
Hours of dawn
While I wait
For life's intrusions
To resolve into
The kind of illusion
Fully moving
In a local motived
Rhyme

With a rhythm
Of conclusion
To each destined
Hill to climb
Till the hour
Of my inclusion
In the rat race
Monkeyshine
Of the man
Who signs the paychecks
For the ones who are inclined
To turn over all their workdays
With a smiling set of lines

So they have a few brief moments
With their loved ones to recline
Till the weakest end is over
And they rush back to the grind
Hoping when the year is over
They have saved enough to find
That vacation is not just another
Figment of their mind

Enter interludes intruding
In the workday of the kind
That keep prices ever
Fluiding in an uphill driven
Climb 'cause the workers
Are refusing to give up
Their breaks and find
Faster ways to fill the
Orders for the corporate
Philistines with their
Luxor custom lifestyles
Granted by the gods divine
Of the Order of Elder of the
New Church of the Blind
To the Causes of the
People Who Are Trampled
And Maligned

All the while the workers
Labor for the right to
Live enshrined in their
Live-in love-in levels of insoluble
Aligning heaven hovels of
Incredible indelible design
Where they dream of
No intrusions to the
Interludes benign

your fellow traveler

Flowtrvlr
©2002

It's Your Choice


Choice
Rare
Medium
Well

Grade
Prime
AAA
AA
A
what, no D or F?

Curve
Bell
Half-less, hapless
Half-more, mores 'smores

change partners

Date
Year
Month
Day
Less

Less is more
More or less
Is lesson learned
Learned mind-set
I don't mind
Set

Set
Up
Down
Stage
Door

Exit
Entrance
Enter
Entre

Entree
Dinner
Lunch
Munch a Bunch
of Brunch

Bruncheon
Luncheon
Eon
and Eons
Ago

Ergo?

~~Artwumyn
©2002

A Healthy Dose of Reality


Well, a healthy dose of reality
With a check list for security
And a warning against
The under-inflated claims of
Responsibility

Hello, good-bye
It was fine
Here I am
Where to go
I don't know
What's my name
I'm confused

It was fun
Way too short
Vacations
Have that way
About them
Always end
Just before
They begin

This is here
This is now
This is me
I'm allowed
Another chance
To grow and learn
One more lesson

I'd just like
Just for once
To be done
With the dumps
And be on
To the blessing
Of this lesson

Seems I can't
Get it right
Think I'm wrong
For this flight
'Cause my ticket
Isn't printed out
On paper

Always tears
Always flows
Never stop
Don't you know
That's a sign
Pay attention
To your orders

When you see
The red flag
You're supposed
To move away
Why do I always
Seem to edge
Closer

Once again
Light goes on
Past the noon
Way past dawn
Why so long
For the daylight
To hit my sight

Give it up
It's no use
Not for now
Not for use
Until then
When I really
Don't need it

Just the way
That it goes
Suck it up
And go slow
When you drive
Your bike through
Another turnpike

Deeply sigh
Don't know why
Questions empty
On the fly
Well, I'm busy
What with school
And my whatnots

Let's play
A game
Solitaire
Insanity
With great flair
Sounds like
Fun, but I'd
Rather play
Scrabble

And the rules
Seem all wrong
No other players
A bit harsh
Well, I suppose
Since it's me
Against me
That's a twosome

Idly, I,
Standing by
Wonder who
Will win tonight
Will it be me
Or maybe my
Turn to coup
A shutout

So it goes
Once again
Hanging out
With my twin
Ego to ergo
Tempus fidget
Sum come loud

Ok, that's it
I am done
With this
Stupid piece
Of drudge
Back to work
With a smile
'Cause it's
All right :-x
sigh... ;-)

~~Just Flow~~

Flowtrvlr
©2002

Situationally Functional


Situationally
I am collected
In an orderly fashion
It would appear

Functionally
I am sporadic
Like an automobile
Sputtering and choking
Backfiring and missing
Chugging down the road
Sometimes aimlessly

Maybe I need a tuneup

Flowtrvlr
©12/18/2002

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Ah, My Dove, My Beautiful One


Ah, my dove, my beautiful one
Come let us dine on mangos and apricots
Let the cool evening breezes
Lift the hope of our spirits
As we laugh in bright colors
Of cerise and turquoise

Let us stroll by green oceans
Of bright phosphorescence
That sparkle like fireflies
On wavelets of starlight
Let the wet sandy beaches
Beg us stay in our footprints
Till the wash of the neap tide
Hides the trace of our path

Ah, my dove, my beautiful one
Let us wander in unison
Speaking in rhythms timed
In tune with our heartbeats...
Let us listen intently to the
Song of the desert
With it's sky never-ending
And it's stone memories

Let us dance in the moonlight
To the melody playing on the
Harp of the crickets and then...
Fill ourselves full of the
Essence of daybreak when the
Pink dawn of summer swells the
Air with it's breath

Then we'll lie down together on
A bed of green grasses by a stream
Of cool water in a land of our dreams

Ah, my dove, my beautiful one
Come let me love you
As you love me intensely
And we'll pledge with our truth
To be one in our sighs

~~~~~~~Flow~~~~~~~~

Flowtrvlr
©2002

A Perfect Sunset


A more perfect sunset
I have not seen
All pearls of pink
With silks of orange
Dragons firing across the sky

Setting all the surrounding
Hills aflame with desire
Longing to go down
With the sun in flames

While the blooming
Night flower unfolds
Across the sky
Like some undulating
Gypsy dancer bending
Back to entice the stars
And moon to add their
silent rhythms to the dance

I am in awe at nature's
Festival of light and
Soundless color
Spectrumed bright,
Shouting with
Delight to all comers
See me! Touch me!
Know me! Love me!

I come, I see, I touch
I know, I love You
My Jasmine flower
My heart's desire
You--the perfect sunset
In your eyes aflame
With passion's glow
You--the night flower
Of your hair I feel
Against my skin
You--my dove,
My beautiful one

And I am in awe again

~~~~~let it flow~~~~~

Flowtrvlr
©2002

Friday, October 17, 2014

Ah, Wisdom


Ah, wisdom
I love your name
It speaks to me of ancient ways
To love, to seek, to know, to be
To give one's self to higher things
To set aside all worldly cares
To center in on all that shared
From life eternal, universal
Then flow forth like streaming water
From a fountain high upon
A mountain's visage
Hidden from the world below
Given freely to the seeker
Who dares to climb
Your path to heaven

~~Artwumyn
©2002

What is Life?

What is life?
If not a poem,
A demonstration of
speculative hope

And what is hope?
If not a dream,
An integration of
want and need

And what is need?
If not a fact,
Of fundamentally
basic lack

And what is lack?
If not a hole,
A deviation from
seamless flow

And what is flow?
If not a part,
Of all ancestral
memory's start

~~~Your Fellow Traveler~~~

Flowtrvlr
2002

Thursday, October 16, 2014

What a Mystery You Are to Me


What a mystery you are to me
What a wonder to behold
What a dream I had that you were mine
In a land so long ago

When a knight rode in on fiery steed
When a fairy came to see
When a love grew up from a tiny seed
In two hearts where dreams were free

Where the knight was deft with his two-edged sword
Where the fairy sang a spell
Where such noble deeds were told of them
In all villages and dells

Why a knight so sworn to gallantry
Why a fairy queen so fair
Why a pair whose bond would seal their fates
In a moment's mission dared

How a knight did say to his lady love
How a fairy was betrothed
How a promise given then is now
In a mystery so told

Who can say what is to a soul so old
Who can know when fairies die
Who can fathom such a mystery
In our hearts where love abides

Faerie Sojourner
©2002