Sleep

AI Generated by Amanda Boer for this poem. 1/4/2022

When the wanton watchers wake

when the bounding soul does break

Yes, when the day drifts light to eve…

when the daylight Fae do seethe….

Dream dust comes for one and all

fight as may, but you will fall

Hazy clouds consume your mind

look for help, but none you’ll find

When the dream dust fills the air

your mind dissolves with naught a care

Seen world frays and slips away

and now in dreamworld here you stay.

Dream dust comes for one and all

running is useless- it will call

So walk in brilliant, do not shake

do not cower, quit or quake.

Let it find you, cleanse you, bind you

rinse you, dew you, then undo you

shimmer, simmer, tantalize

touch in ways unrealized

Breathe in deeply, let it keep

Praise the glory that is sleep. 

-Amanda K. Boer

Boundaries

Amanda’s Imagery 2016 - Halong Bay, Vietnam

I file my sweetness

Numb it down.

The burning hurts, but

not a sound.

Boundaries save,

Build the wall.

Each brick you pave

Helps change us all.

Kindness calms, but can be seething.

-What truth is mine today?

Masking pleasing,

Hurting bleeding,

Don’t harm your soul to light their way.

Empaths feeling,

Victims stealing

All doing their best?

Gnarling pleading,

Resentment seeding

Now only hate’s professed.

Step it back,

Build the wall,

Ask is this mine at all?

There is no simple black and white,

Truth is muddy every day.

Is it worth a petty fight?

The peace is in the gray.

August 19, 2022

Letting Go of the Battered Tracks

So many pieces of people

broken and scattered 

We litter while we lead

lives bittered then battered

Ethereal dreams that filled then faded

doubting our tracks... once glittered, now jaded.

How do we piece us all back together?

None of us seem to fit

How do we make humanity better?

how do we tighten the knit?

Breathe.  Then be.

Breathe.  Then see.

to love and be loved

that is the key

Letting go of the battered tracks

Letting go of truths or facts

Letting go of he did, she did

Letting go of whats not needed

So many pieces of people

broken and then scattered

Let us pick these pieces up

and remember whats truly mattered?

April 19, 2017

For Sweet Indy

Indigo Child of mine

Shine bright the light you hold

Follow the stars of time

And heed the wisdom of old

Indigo child

charming and wild

stay bright and 

away from the gray

Indigo child

with moodiness mild

stay strong

and live out each day.

Indigo child I pray

You seek goodness in all that you do

Follow the narrow way

And walk it steady and true.

Indigo child

charming and wild

stay strong in faith

don’t stray

Indigo child

so lessoned and styled

Stay you... 

despite others’ ways

For Sweet Indy

March 1, 2017

Find 'The Together'

Hearts criss-cross, on issues wide

Families clash, and gnash and side.

And messages of union and compromise 

turn to victimization and pride.

But where are we really? Can we zoom out? 

What's at the heart of this hatred we tout?

Do unto others.  Educate thine mind.

And some where everyone...

together...

We will find.

Fair-Weather Flower

September 2013

Guilty am I
Fair-weather flower
Growing at your feet

Waiting for water
To help me grow
My own two feet
on which I'll sow

Help me bare
This painful heat
Help me bare
This painful heat


Sun.. Flower..
To fate we cower
And never will reach
Not in this hour


Sun.. Flower..
To fate we cower
And never will reach
Not in this hour


You are sunshine
Filling my soul
Giving me light
On this grassy knoll
So here we sit
Too far away
Two spirits lit
Without a way


Sun.. Flower..
To fate we cower
And never will reach
Not in this hour


Sun.. Flower..
To fate we cower
And never will reach
Not in this hour


For shadows beseech
They tear and they leech
And I am only a flower

I am only a flower.


Sun.. Flower..
To fate we cower
And never will reach
Not in this hour

-A.K. Boer

Flowers in her hair Flowers in a crown
By Amanda Boer

May 1 2013

 She is the one
That leads 1000 rays
Of sunshine sweet
Through the darkest of days

 Smile little sweet
With flowers in your hair
Tender little feet
And features that we share

 Smile little sweet
With flowers in your hair
Today today
wear flowers in your hair

 We know the fall is coming
And you’re more than a blossom
You will beat it running
And keep us all but solemn

And you’ll say smile Mama sweet
the flowers all fell down
tomorrow, yes tomorrow
let’s put flowers in a crown

I may not have my hair
Let’s put flowers in a crown

 Patience is a hardship
And pain is but a stone
Know I hold your hand my sweet
We don’t do this alone
 And she’ll say

smile Mama sweet
I love the flowers in my crown
The flowers in my crown
Yes the flowers in my crown.

Star Stuff

We are Star Stuff 

We... are but stars
with worlds within worlds...
filling and connecting the voids
of darkness that spindles outside us and swirls...
the dark matter that reaches and claws... 
oh these voids...

We...are star stuff...
the stuff of stars.....
with time within times
and dark matter wars...
we never saw coming...
a dimensional web
no hallways, no doors. 

Darkness will catch us
Can we choose times?
Can we bend energy
and the way that is shines?

And can't we just be
until the right end...

Radiant stars

Shine...
my star friend.....

June 11, 2014

written by -A.K. Boer