Use your body as a navigator
for the compass use your heart
use your mind as a tool
Now it's your turn to start
Follow your heart
not everything will be as it seems
But if you keep on reaching
in turn you'll find your dreams

Life is a series of events
sometimes we wander without a care
when life takes us down amongst the shadows
It'll soon take us right back up the winding stair
Embrace each new surounding
you shall never fail
in the grand scheme of life
each experience, will become a tale
Our lives are designed individually
there's a map inside each mind
If you want to find your treasure
It'll be right there to find...

Be curious not judgemental,
Be careful what you say
Speak in turn of another
as if they were in the room today

Be careful what you wish for
You have already what you need
Learn to change your perceptions
Open your mind to being freed


Things evolve and change
Like your personal life view
Sometimes peoples opinions
are opininons you once had too

We're not all too different
In a world that can be demanding
all we need is a little love
friendship and understanding

The moon tips slowly on the meadow,
illuminated oak trees, dancing dandelions,
Alone we sit with a peaceful silence
nothing stirs,
nothing but cool whispers
from the nature that surrounds us
Listen carefully,
Quietly,
Can you feel mother earth breath?
She is alive and well,
Let your mind open
Do not fear,
Listen to the beat of your heart,
Like a pounding drum
Everything has a spirit
We are all connected,
Can you feel mother earth breath?
she breaths with you
she breaths for you

I have lived for many minutes, hours and days
I have lived in so many different ways,
Do not judge me nor preach your advice
For in my life scale you have been but a slice
I am many different things to many different a mind
I am a loyal friend, I am loving, I am kind
I am open hearted, open minded and free
I am a person, I am all I want to be

I am not just like my mother or father

I am just like me

I am an individual

I am all I want to be

Society defines us

By what job we tend to do

one hundred and sixty hours a week

I walk in my own shoes

I may have a waitress job

I may live in a council flat

I may not be as rich as you

But what is wrong with that?

I am me, I am many things

I am a girlfriend, I am a mother

I live life the way I choose

and I am like no other

I am a poet, a traveller

I am open minded and free

I am blessed with many friends

I am as happy as can be

Meadow of dancing dandelions
Waving, olive shreds of grass
I lay beneath ocean skies of blue
sun embrace, like a painted scarf

Tree spirits and faeries whisper
the birds are singing to the bees
In the warmth of summer sun
flow secrets on a gentle breeze

I lay beneath the apple tree
dungarees, straw hat and smile
I could lay here for my lifetime
But instead I'll stay a while

I perform rituals inside my mind
through your eyes you see blind
dancing spirit gave an intense visitation
Opening my soul to a deep sensation
You see what you want to see,
through your eyes you can't see me
I've seen the plain you seek to find
answers are there, open your mind

Life can be exciting but crazy
Things forever evolve and change
Like an hourglass with grains of sand
In this world we rearange
I will of forgotten by tommorow
Some of the things I learn today
Years from now things I've said
are things I'll no longer say
Like when I was a little girl
Jimi Hendrix was a man
As I grew he became a boy
This is hard to understand
I still have my memories
Still places I want to see
In a world where I forever evolve
Will I ever find the real me???

To someone you will always be
the best friend in the world
To someone you will always be
the brightest person they know
To someone you will always be
...The first person they want to call
To someone you will always be
the right person for the job
and to someone you will always be
the most beautiful girl in the room
©Rachel-erika Henderson 2010

Beautiful people dance on the sand
underneath the pale golden moon
Their rythmic chant awakens the gods
with an ecstatic state of swoon
undulating crashing white-capped waves
Roll on the beach, thrash into the cave
Like broken mirrors, sparkles the sand
Like a cosmic shift a night so grand

The panoramic vision of my life
Does not come from paper nor screen
I chase the rainbows
I follow my dream

although I cannot catch them
I hold my head towards the sky
to capture this for my memory
To view it through my eyes

People are too distracted
With the imperfections of life
I think beautiful memories
Help to calm our strife

Caught up with poccessions
An armchair thats never seen arms
surrounded by the living dead
When life has the greatest charms

I saw a small boy today
Who smiled and said to me
He was the happiest kid in town
Cause he has his own TV

I looked down and him
I smiled and I said
insecurity and inadequacy?
TVs gonna mess with your head

Beautiful blue skies, sun is shining
Todays the perfect day
to try to capture a memory
'You must go outside and play'

Burning fire, red tongues licking
Crackling heat, crimson flicking
Earth, dust and ashes form a pyre
flames of forgiveness growing higher
I sit, I scream, I cry and I shout
...Every tear I shed won't put this fire out
You have gone, somewhere else you dwell
Pile of burning cinders, nothing but a shell
Feel the peaceful spirit birds and trees
Nature seems to calm me, sudden breeze
then I stop, think and I start to smile
Cosmic meeting was all worth while
I lay here hours till break of dawn
Comforted white widow, silent morn
Love is strong, our spirits will greet
different time and place, again we'll meet
True love, your beauty rare thing to find
close my eyes you're inside my mind
burning fire, red tongues flicking
Crackling heat, crimson flicking
Gone is the pain, as I bathe in glory
For having you dear, in my life story

Caught beneath the carpet floor
Lies the crumb of a biscuit wanting more
Lay in a packet for most of their life
Only ever halfed with a butter knife
If the world is a carpet, crumb you know
Savour the sugar of our biscuit dough
Blessed in life with many a crumb
Some in friendship, some even as mum
We gather together in a sweet cookie affair
Experience our life together then disappear
Some make speeches, some make mumbles
But my dear that's the way the cookie crumbles

Its about free love, its about frugality
Step on the bohemian bus, take a ride with me
Calling all artists, all musicians every writer
This is one journey,that's gonna be an all-nighter
The radicals, the cultured, its gonna be a ride
Don't need money, just yourself, so step inside
The bohemian bus parked down by the sea
We sit in the sunshine with a dram of whisky
Don't need no rules we need free understanding
Society is governed by a law somewhat demanding
Nouveau, gypsy, dandy, zen or beat
Whatever you are come join us on the street
Its our Rainbow gathering, bless mother earth
Bless one another, live life as it is worth...

Lets fly to the moon the stars and the sun
To catch the dreams that have just begun
we collect the feathers we gather the stones
we collect the sticks and search for the bones
We bring them here to our sacred land
we swim through the seas and dance on the sand
Our life on earth is but a mere stitch
We search for spirituality, not for the rich
We bless all spirits, all animals, all trees
Tie knots in our leather to calm the breeze
When our life on earth is ready to end
We call upon spirits of our ancestors and friends

The white open sky leaves a fear deep inside
Of a silent cool breeze and somewhere to hide
I stand silenced in a room of noise
Trying to gather some kind of poise
I try to gain my stance in this place of manic
As my attacks grow stronger i am riddled with panic
This is some kind of suppressed inner fear
I hold on for the ride until they disappear

I clarify my moment of infinite freedom
I open my mind to travel through the skies
This moment the universe is revealed to me
Wandering soul looks through my eyes
I feel confused but keep on searching
I look for wisdom in those who'll teach me
I understand in an disappearing single moment
What is is to open my heart to being free

Moving Statues
break free
existing
Not living
lost inside of thee
Unlock your mind
so thoughts flow
Roam wild
Let it all go
Moving Statues
Stuck in a shell
Open you mind
no longer dwell
living minds
crimson tide
Break this shell
you live inside
Moving being
soulful inside
dreams and blessings
wisdom and guides

The new beggining when you start to roam
to rise through the clouds away from home
The new beggining when you arrive here
a brand new life away from there
We are born each from our mother womb
Or infact in this our ancient tomb?
Everything is not relayed by how it seems
What do you want? be it desire or dreams
Follow your dreams then, before you are old
To inspire in life, let your stories be told
The blessed sun by day bathes us in light
Though the moon doesn't always bring us night
There are many lessons to learn, many to give
So open your hearts to freedom, start to live!