About The Blog

Arthor Journer is my pen name.
"Arthor" comprises "art" + "Author" while "Journer" defines the journey that I was on and continue to travel.
In this blog is the emotional byproduct of this journey.

"Rites of Art" is the title because it is my "writes" of passage.

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Crossing Borders of Bliss


My soul delivered I’d discover peace of mind
I would drown in your river a thousand times
Infuse my liver with your sweet wine
I would swallow every drop until I am saturated
I would wallow in your moisture until I am satiated
Our sweat our joyful tears would flow as one
Our bridges our fears we would know when the day is done
My soul near to nirvana when our hearts chime
I would fly in your stratosphere a thousand times
My spirit merely a stanza in our symphony’s rhyme

You Saved Me From Me

Calloused burned sutured and scarred
This was the condition of my heart
Black and blued broken in three
This was my emotional reality
Yet you took a chance
A gamble at romance
Blistered used and betrayed
Scorned wounded stabbed and frayed
Torn stripped ripped into pieces
This was my diagnosis
Yet you held me close
Soothed my aches and my purpose


Chains of Love


I’m captured wrapped forever in your embrace
My spirit enraptured with your soul’s face
I’m satiated with your beauty that flows from your eyes
My soul saturated with your soothing skies
I’m a prisoner behind bars made of dreams and pleas
You alone are the reasoner the warden holder of the keys
I’m impressed always with your thoughts so high
My mind blessed by the wisdom forever nigh
I’m healed by the fresh spring from your voice
My flesh sealed with your kiss inspiring layers of joys
I’m a servant shackled to your dreams and seas
For you alone am I fervent and you alone can free
I’m inspired forever by your emotions
My heart desires always to swim in your oceans
I’m warmed by your light and your core
My cells swarmed by love and each wants more
I’m a slave to your will so I bend my knees
You alone my heart I gave and only seeks you to please

More Than You Know


More than you know
Like the raindrops during a raging storm
Like the sand grains that carpet the beach
Like the bees during a swarm
Like the drips of water in the sea
More than you know
Like the stones that are on a mountain
Like the leafs in a dense forest
Like the stars in the heaven
Like the souls that must confess
More than you know
Like the hairs on your head
Like the fish in the ocean
Like the shells on the sea bed
Like the rivers that run
More than you know
I love you

Shapes of My Love


My love is shaken and stirred
To be mixed with ingredients so rare
Seasoned with art and words
That no other will ever compare
You can drink you can drown
But my love will be there to save
You will hear its melodic sounds
Far beyond heavens or the grave
You can feel it you can taste
You can smell the flavor so sweet
You will experience joy in your soul on your face
It will cover you from your head to your feet

If...Then


If you are a castle
Then I am your moat
Against your enemies I will wrestle
Drown them when they swallow me in their throat
If you are the sun
Then I will be the moon
Sharing the sky with you as one
Protecting your dreams in your mind and womb

Endless Spectrums of Our TImeless Love


I lack the words and skill to define our love
Like asking the waters to contemplate each drop of a wave
Like having the clouds elucidate about the storm above
Or requiring the beach to explain how grains of sand are both free and slaves
I can only confess that it is and exists without doubt or question
That like the sunrise my soul knows it will be there tomorrow
And once again our hearts will both reap and sow
That like the breathing of the deep oceans and wide seas
That it offers solutions and soothings and solid suggestions
It will not go away yet return with ebb and tides within me
I am deficient of the intellect to justify our love
Like asking the trees to expound on why their leaves sway and dance
Like having the wind tell where it is going and what it is made of
Or requiring the seasons to say how they maintain the balance
I can only divulge that it is and thrives without rhyme or rebuke
That like spring it is both endless pure and fresh
And that it is fate not merely serendipity or a fluke
It is eternal and will echo in the universe long after death
It is spoken and dreamed and growing with every breath