Sojourner's Tale

The traveler goes a sojourning

She journeys near and far

She gathers all her countrywym

To share their faring talk

They meet around the circle

In the midnight of the fire

And tell of how each learned

Her way to find her circlet tie

One learned so by her mother's lap

And one her father's knee

One stole away in dead of night

To set her own heart free

A lady dressed in robes of green

Did find her way inside

By kneeling down on bended knee

And silver found her knight

Another sat in silence there

Among the forest trees

Upon a rock she stayed her till

Her spirit came to speak

For such the ways to circlet come

More numerous than sands

That trim the mighty oceans

And spill out onto the lands

And should you go a sojourning

To seek your soul in rest

This traveler bids go in peace

May find your spirit blessed

~~~your fellow traveler

Faerie Sojourner

©2002

Sojourner's Lore

different styles, different modes

calling on separate lobes

separate lives, separate goals

walking down different roads

sometimes passing in the night

looking over hedges' height

mind's eye on vision set

focused in on earthly quest

traveling inward outward through

downward upward onward true

leaning forward ever go

toward enlightening spirit's soul

when enlightened quest is done

rest a while in setting sun

till the morrow's rise at dawn

brings new vision, life goes on

so the lonely sojourner's song

briefly here, they've come, then gone

tried and true and evermore

solitary sojourner's lore

~~~your fellow traveler

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

Sister Spirit, Hear Me Calling...a song

Sister Spirit, can you hear me

I am calling out your name

Will you answer to the wind speak

When it calls to you again

Can you hear me in the winter

Through the snowflake's silent fall

Can you hear me in each new bud

As the springtime brings it's thaw

Sister Spirit hear me calling

I am calling out your name

Will you meet me in the dawning

In the place where spirits pray

When I call will you come near me

When you hear me speak your name

For you know me as I know you

I am calling you again

Can you hear it in the forest

Hear it rustling through the trees

In the waves out on the ocean

Hear me calling o'er the sea

Sister Spirit let your heart lead

For it always knows the way

To your answers to your questions

From before and for always

Sister Spirit I am calling

Will you answer to your name

You will know me in the wind speak

In the circle's centered place

Faerie Sojourner

©2002

One Drum

One drum, one voice

One spirit, one song

One call, one note

One people, one hope

One earth, one sun

One moon, one cause

One drum, one voice

One people, one hope

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