Jacob Traver

Jacob Traver Mar 2016

Headline

We all look the
Same
When all the lights are
Out --
Headline -- evidence --
"Two Big Dark Looking Men" --
Objection --
Why Big?
Dark?
Men?
Overruled --
We all take on
Difference
When all the lights are
Out.

Inspired by Machinal by Sophie Treadwell

#dark #two #out #light #same #different #big #men #law #headline

Jacob Traver Mar 2016

Rising

I rose --
Sick on an Easter morning
To my 9:40 alarm
To another mourning
Of another alarming
Attack on lives
And I live on
Feeling secure.

I rose --
Sick on a Maryland morning
A week after Italy
Three days after Ireland
Being closer to Pakistan
Being too close to Belgium
And all I felt was a pat down
And more secure.

He rose --
For the mourning
And on this morning
I can't help feeling
Helpless,
Confused,
Sick.
But He will make secure.

Prayer for Pakistan, Belgium, and the nations around the world. He lives and God bless.

#help #live #sick #confusion #jesus #rise #morning #easter #pakistan #brussels

Jacob Traver Mar 2016

A Second Time

What is harder than
Walking away again
Knowing all and then
Already
Feeling
Distance.
For two more months --
A second time.

#love #time #two #hard #distance #know #feel #long #walk #second

Jacob Traver Jan 2016

Yearly, Yearly I Knew You Dearly

Yearly, yearly I knew you dearly --
Watched you blossom and sincerely
Hope to be more than merely
A seed without the sun.

Yearly, yearly I held you dearly --
Sown deep in the ground and growing nearly
As stretched as the sky and you now clearly
A seed within the sun.

Yearly, yearly I loved you dearly --
Nurtured as nurtured rarely austerely
Intertwined as death lets us be
Two seeds beneath the sun.

#love #death #sun #hope #you #me #know #dear #year #seed

Jacob Traver Jan 2016

Snow Falls

Through the eight-paned stained glass window,
I sit and stare and ponder the snow as though
I am a single solitary flake falling slow with no
Worry of leaving the sky.

I float on air carried and ferried by wind flow
As I gently come to lie on the blank covered ground low
Below the sky stretching grey over white as a plateau
Of heavy clouds on high.

#fall #winter #window #snow #cold #air #glass #cloud #cool #falls

Jacob Traver Oct 2015

Poetry

Simply writing for fun?
Or developing skill?
Will I one day be done
Or is poetry will?

I can be it. I know it.
"You're not a real poet."

#dream #poetry #poet #fun #one #inspiration #know #done #will #skill

Jacob Traver Oct 2015

Distracted

Distract the heart with other emotions than that of
Love.
Distract the heart with excitement, with laughter, with joy.
Distract it with memories of being a little girl and boy.
Distract it with conversations of intellectual thought,
Though sometimes distract it with those that are not.
Keep it enthralled with the day's many moments.
Enthrall it with what options that day were not chosen.
If sadness does come, welcome it to see
How deeply I do care for thee.
My dearest friend, the only
Whom I write of,
My heart is now
Distracted
Completely
With
Love

#love #heart #relationship #i #joy #you #jacob #distract #enthrall