Fly As the Phoenix

Rising from ground zero

from the ashes of the smoldering fire

The mighty Phoenix flies

that which once died

twice lives

She who has laid down her old ways

who through adversity has stood firm

is she who will find new ways to live

She who finds new ways to live

but forgets not the sacrifice she has made

is she who learns perseverance

She who walks on, each day by each day

is she who will gain her great mountain

But she who finds new ways to live

and walks on each day by each day

cherishing not only the new,

but celebrating the wisdom from the old

is she who will fly as the Phoenix

And she who does all these things

and reaches her hand out to her sister

who is still in darkness

She will rise with the new day

Ascend her mountain high

Fly as the Phoenix

And rest at peace in her soul

In the next life

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

Faerie Sojourner

©2002

The Healing Stone

Once carried in a Faerie's pack

Far across the mountain track

Through searing heat and stormy seas

Protected for the circle's needs

Pass around the healing stone

Let each one touch it's light

That glows within, how--one can't tell

But knows it's power shining bright

From ancient days and legends born

When elves and faeries lived

To them great gifts were then bestowed

The greatest one, the healing stone

A rock so plain, and gray with age

No one could see it's useful need

Once touched by grace from age to age

It then became the healing stone

A healing stone lit from within

With wisdom borne from pain

To bring a touch of caring love

To all who came in need

Pass around the healing stone

Touch it and be healed

And if you don't believe it's power

Stay a while, in time you will

For love can light the darkest night

And laughter build a bridge

Deep compassion finds a friend

In everyone she meets

Pass around the healing stone

Let none be turned away

And if they need one for their own

Then give the stone away

For love creates from ashes burnt

So well that they can't be

But from their essence love can build

A diamond bright and clear

So pass around the healing stone

Give it to a friend

Let them handle it a while

Watch it's work begin

Pass around the healing stone

Give it gently, give it well

Bring a broken heart to heal

In time those bones will rise again

Pass around the healing stone

Lit by love and charity

Kindly, gently, tenderly

Love can heal the greatest need

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

Faerie Sojourner

©2002

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

Full Moon Rising

Full moon rising

Right in sight

Through the wispy clouds and fog

Speaks to owls

And bats in flight

Of the wisdom of the night

Full moon wisdom

Light in sight

Through the visions of the dream

Speaks to me

Of truth's delight

On my journey in the night

Faerie Sojourner

©2002

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

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

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

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

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