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Dec 2020 · 383
GOD NEEDS ?
Traveler Dec 2020
What does God need?
Surely I’m thankful for all I have
Perhaps God needs our obedience
A 10th of all our cash
But what would God
do with all of that?

Does he own our minds and souls
The worldly knowledge that we hold
Does he want his blue skies back
Another big bang it all turns black

God what could you possibly want
A leap of faith into your swamp
Of
People suffering
Battles Cries
Searching for truth in piles of lies
Trust in the invisible
Trust in man
Numbered with the grains of sand
But here I stand
Alone in my folly
Wondering why
What’s up with this God guy?
Traveler Tim
Dec 2020 · 337
I Swam Here
Traveler Dec 2020
I’ve been compartmentalized
Because of my labels
I’ve been ostracized
Because of my sight
They try to drown me in their river
And so
I swam with all my might

So if you wonder
How I got here
And why I am sopping wet
I was forced to learn to swim
To escape the fishers net.

Are you still treading water
In the deep end of beliefs
Learn to swim my friend
And
Drown with me in peace
...................
Traveler
Dec 2020 · 82
Through The Microscope
Traveler Dec 2020
At a rather closer look
we can see living organisms
radicalised microbiota
in a chaotic feeding frenzy
There seems to be little to no order
through the microscope
This chaos exist within us so that our bodies can function in harmony

And so as this planet in all its chaos
Is in harmony with the universe
Traveler Tim
Virtue just is!
like the healing virtue of a plant
You don’t create virtues
Your deepest poetry is part of you
Alan Watts told me.
Dec 2020 · 344
Uncommon
Traveler Dec 2020
the extrovert that thinks too much
I lose touch of my feelings
and fall out of love
I feel to get drunk
but quit at one beer
I am ready to go
but life put me here
........
Traveler Tim
Traveler Dec 2020
💃
You have drawn the extra version card
Welcome to the deck
Introverted values
You no longer can connect

Intuition, feelings and perceiving
is the game that extroverts play
Opposed to sensing, thanking and judging like those introverted lames!

If you’re not sure which side you’re on
Or if you’re out there on the fence
Do you want to be alone?
Or the party to commence!

So weep not my child
they’ll be no need for fear
God made
An extra version of you dear!
Traveler Tim
Dec 2020 · 74
What was it all for?
Traveler Dec 2020
Push life to the limits
Learn all you can
Gathering experience
A well of wisdom
You will become

Nobody actually wants to hear
Anything you feel important to share
So take all that you’ve become
Die and leave it there?
Traveler Tim
Dec 2020 · 170
On The Floor
Traveler Dec 2020
I propose we elevate our poetical
subjectivity to a faucet of objective reality.
So as we may live in harmony
With ourselves.
A simple brushstroke if you agree
Repeat after me
There’s no place like home
Now
Count back from three
Two
One...
Make it so
Let your creations roll!
Traveler Tim

John Luke Picard in there
Dec 2020 · 642
The Nature Of Addiction
Traveler Dec 2020
These addictions
My mind says I need
But it’s only what I want
Because I’m bored as can be

Fill this emptiness
My urge is on repeat
Give me some ***, food
alcoholic, drugs
This hunger needs to feed

Who can go without
The rush that they now know
Every time the needle sticks
The world just turns to gold

In between is a living hell
Yet although they don’t seem to mind
They return to the ******* ******
Time after time

And that my friends
Is the condition you’re seeing
When this addictive nature
Hi Jack’s a human being.
Traveler Tim

The truth is
We get addicted to substances  and objects
All because we refuse to grow up
Dec 2020 · 125
Sympathy’s For The Devil
Traveler Dec 2020
Who needs sympathy
It’s only a feeling
I have empathy
The power of healing

Sympathy is for the devil
He never gave a ****
He don’t deserve my empathy
But that’s just who I am

I can feel your passionate pain
In the words that you express
I will embrace your suffering
Until you feel your best!

So if you’re feeling down
Broken or just blue
Open up your heart
And I will help you through!
Traveler Tim
Dec 2020 · 121
Life is an unlocked door
Traveler Dec 2020
I know I am out there somewhere
I’m getting closer to meeting me!
I can picture it now
Counselor teacher
Caretaker of the poor
Giver of a light so bright
It blinds the demon hoard
I can see myself beyond
The unlocked door

Won’t you come with me
Into the dark
Together we
Shall shine are part
To save the world
and find our meaning
Before the karamedic
button resets
Life being an unlocked door
Is a much better bet.
Traveler Tim
Dec 2020 · 430
Gender Indifferent
Traveler Dec 2020
It was a big leap
from nakedness to
those hideous fig leaves!

To me the gender phenomenon
parallels romanticism

Because
it’s all backwards to me
Fields of lovely flowers are all I see
Your *** is fluent and mighty
The greater the wave
The deep the sea.

Evolution can’t go backwards
or else we’d all take off your clothes
Wouldn’t that be nice
If your genitality was exposed
You do understand
We still wouldn’t be able
to see your soul...
Romanticism is a belief that we should do things like in the past, but the reason things change is because they weren’t working to begin with.
this is also known as a Paradyne shift
Dec 2020 · 96
Immortalised
Traveler Dec 2020
If the bottom of your feet
have such a foul stench
Then I would suggested
you’ve been walking in
The putrid pastures
of immorality.
My advice
Wear boots!
Traveler Tim

The title has nothing to do with the poem.
I just like the word period creativity has no rules
Dec 2020 · 110
LET THERE BE POETRY!
Traveler Dec 2020
Dad,
where did we come from?

Its actually simple.
We are pieces
Of cosmic debris,
that broke off a giant star.
A star that was among
a large cluster of planetoids,
held together in a gravitational field.
A place we called home,
The Milky Way Galaxy.
Which is a part of our
conscious universe.
It’s all made up of of 30% matter
and 70% dark matter.

And it’s possible
that it all
came from another dimension.
In a instant known as
The BIG BANG!
What’s so hard about that question?

Now ask me a hard question
like why do people have to suffer?
And I would answer you,
so that we may live in poetry!
Traveler Tim
Dec 2020 · 571
Bring’er Down
Traveler Dec 2020
Please don’t call the thought police
I meant to say that underneath
Impeccable words I yet to own
When I’m getting really ******

Bring it down
Bring ‘er on down now!

Put the power trip to rest
We were all born with the best
Although I was hatched by a beast
You don’t need call a priest

Bring it down
Bring’er on down now

Let your blue hair down
Let that blue hair down now
Don’t be wearing no scowl
Just let your blue hair down now!
Traveler Tim
Dec 2020 · 73
POETICAL LIGHT
Traveler Dec 2020
Funny as if we know
where all these
deep thoughts come from

Somewhere
well below the surface
the roots of awareness
anchor us to creation
as we absorb
universal insight

That is of course
when we turn on our
poetic light!
Traveler Tim
Dec 2020 · 157
Living Dead
Traveler Dec 2020
Surely the rules of life
Come with a heavy tether
Weighing us down
Tarred and feathered
To keep us safe in the wild
Calmly tamed
Mindlessness is the name
Of this dreadful game

Bring on the beast
Let loose Goliath
I am all ready bored
With our new Messiah

Give me back my bullets
the primitive said
Or perhaps I’m transcending
The living dead
Traveler Tim
Dec 2020 · 71
DEAR MOTHER
Traveler Dec 2020
It was bad timing
I get it
I don’t take it personal
hell in the
middle of a breakdown
these poetic sprouts
expanding towards life
as you attempted to purge
the soulless *****
infested egg from your bowls
but still I arrived
my deformities superficial
my connectability out of line
but I overcome all that
Dear mother beyond you
I’m more than fine
Traveler Tim

I am still a firm believer that women have a right to do as they wish with their own body even though it almost took my life.
Dec 2020 · 120
Conformation
Traveler Dec 2020
The structure is alive and watching
an anatomy of unconsciousness
formulates a sacred blueprint
as a conformation
of the animalistic being

Conformity is a cage
they try to keep us crystallised in
but we are
fluently
flowing freely
at all times

Just as this write
has helped me to escape
The conforms of my human fate.
Traveler Tim
Dec 2020 · 71
Your Song (not Eltons)
Traveler Dec 2020
The measure is irrelevant
in the tablature of the soul

Beats per minute
will vary
as the chorus
of your song grows

Weather on the 16th notes
or even the eighth
the muse of jazz
commences to cooperate

And so we play along
with the sax of a new wave
marching in step
dancing in sync
while our worlds are on the brink

Be strong and play along

And yeah
listen to some Elton John!
Traveler Tim

Elton John,
Your Song

little bit funny, this feelin' inside
I'm not one of those who can easily hide
I don't have much money, but boy, if I did
I'd buy a big house where we both could live
If I was a sculptor, but then again, no
Or a man who makes potions in a travelin' show
Oh, I know it's not much, but it's the best I can do
My gift is my song and this one's for you
And you can tell everybody this is your song
It may be quite simple but now that it's done
I hope you don't mind
I hope you don't mind
That I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world
I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss
Well, a few of the verses, well, they've got me quite cross
But the sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song
It's for people like you that…
Dec 2020 · 234
Contradictory Self
Traveler Dec 2020
If you can’t justify
The beliefs and actions
Of your own spouse
All that is left
Is a contradictory
Self!
Traveler Tim
Dec 2020 · 95
Don’t Look This Way
Traveler Dec 2020
Can you hear them crying out
Help help help help
There’s starving to death
They’re being ***** an oppressed and made slaves
They can’t speak up they can’t speak out
What was the purpose of all this they wonder and so in their God they doubt
Can’t you hear so many people upon this earth crying out???????

And I don’t want to watch your soap opera    I don’t want to watch your play
How am I supposed to enjoy myself
When the world has lost its way?

So close your eyes
Dream of your heaven
but life is a hell of a maze!
Traveler Tim
Dec 2020 · 540
HARD WIRED
Traveler Dec 2020
To imagine the imagination
Is to be drawn into the fire
For those
Creative experience’s
Are hard wired

Enchanted escalade
Up the mountain of archetypes
There your gift of expression widens
In a poetic array of wonder
Together WE
Rain down on the weary world
And a spark of light so blindingly bright
Brings sight to the busy ants

The hole dug today
Was just for tonight
Dear rabbits it’s time to dig another one!
Traveler Tim

“Run, rabbit run
Dig that hole, forget the sun
And when at last the work is done
Don’t sit down, it’s time to dig another one
For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race towards an early grave…”
— Pink Floyd, “Breathe”
Dec 2020 · 1.1k
I AM MUSIC
Traveler Dec 2020
I am music
the cadence of soul
beat box of rhythm
lyrical poems
I am music
the inertia of dance
primitive passion
arising romance

I am music
of both hemispheres
intuitive and sensing
perception unaware
emotion in motion
routed in love
I am below
sent from above

I am music
I am love
Please never give me up!
Traveler Tim
Dec 2020 · 357
Sentences To Unknowing
Traveler Dec 2020
Is the spirit
A part of conscientiousness
or is conscientiousness
A part of the spirit?
Is will deceived
Or do we steer it?

Death can hardly
Be part of life
How can a part
Of life be dead?
If eternity continues
At our last breath
How can I
When nothing’s left?

I’m sure you know
Your words are many
Dissecting the dictionary
From end to beginning
But...
Mom let you know the anger of dad
Stay out of his way and never be bad
Questions are futile
Eat your greens
The answer is simply life is a dream.
There’s no explanation
Only description.

Make no mistake we are self deceived

Traveler Tim

Perhaps we signed into some type of contract and we’re here to help this world evolve
And you can’t die until you do your part

If my last existence was a micro
Perhaps my next existence will be a solar system
Perhaps in some future point I will be the all
Perhaps
Dec 2020 · 190
The Faintest
Traveler Dec 2020
It’s merely the fabric of reality
It was meant to bend and shape
Just as the white background
By words has been displaced
So is your tomorrow
An opus to be painted
I would gladly guide you along
But I wouldn’t have the faintest
Traveler Tim
Dec 2020 · 259
Anger Under Management
Traveler Dec 2020
I’m not gonna
Wait for you
I know you been seeing someone new
  I’ll pack my traveling bag
Go for a ride
I’m not gonna let it get me this time

Just let you fade away
All the words you say
Turn the music up go for a ride
I’m not gonna let it get me this time

I don’t wanna be
Somebody’s fool
I’m not gonna beat up your new tool
I’m not gonna get drunk in spite of myself
I’m going to simply move on
To someone else.
Traveler

And so that’s how a traveler does it
Dec 2020 · 385
Fatherless
Traveler Dec 2020
I can’t seem to show them
The things they can’t seem to see
My Fathering reputation at stake
Few were the tricks up my sleeves

Listen now my children
Take heed the words of love
Put on your thinking caps
Take off your boxing gloves

Open sesame oh heart I plead!
A solution has to be...
Teach them how to break them down
Their walls of misery

Oh Father how have you forsaken me?
Traveler Tim

Juthro Tull  "Thick As A Brick"

Really don't mind if you sit this one out.
My words but a whisper, your deafness a SHOUT.
I may make you feel but I can't make you think.
Your *****'s in the gutter, your love's in the sink.

So you ride yourselves over the fields and
you make all your animal deals and
your wise men don't know how it feels
to be thick as a brick.

And the sand-castle virtues are all swept away
In the tidal destruction the moral melee.
The elastic retreat rings the close of play
as the last wave uncovers the newfangled way.
Dec 2020 · 1.3k
America The Great!
Traveler Dec 2020
The largest mass ****** machine that ever existed!
We make a profit off of death!
Traveler

This is an atrocity
Dec 2020 · 171
Writers Unblock
Traveler Dec 2020
This poem begins with
an interesting headline
designed to grab
your dire attention

The body builds
on more outlandishness
rhythms and rhymes
paradoxical calculations
oxymoronic wisdoms

Now the  ending
of hope paired
with the introduction
of enlightenment

Coda
exposed feelings
the end
...
Traveler Tim

What a relief
Dec 2020 · 92
THE WORLD HAS NEEDS
Traveler Dec 2020
Throbbing heart
Brilliance of light
I wish I were
I wish you might

Express
Confess
Who we are
Quantum particles
Shakespeare
Stars

Expose
Compose our
Deepest opus
Left field, right field
Don’t lose focus

Feed us on manna
Essentially fortified
Pictorial patterns
Biblically certified
Dissect the meek
Transcribe the Greek
Let’s have a peek
Of the bottomless deep!

Make it worth the time to read
Pieces and parts arranged aesthetically
Chaotic order cleverly held
In each and every proto conscious cell

Let it illuminate shadows
Pollute the ocean of the pure
Dear poets
The world needs a cure
Traveler Tim

There is no speed of light, light does not move.
Dec 2020 · 294
Honesty
Traveler Dec 2020
Not pretending that your feelings
are not what they are.
Do you love?
Do you love strangers?
Do you love invisible spirits?
What lie shall we believe
As great as the evil in your heart
you could never love me.

And if you choose not to decide
you still have made a choice!
Traveler Tim

There’s no such thing as wrong feelings
Be not terrified of your reality
Dec 2020 · 550
Dumb Phone
Traveler Dec 2020
Hey Siri’s
write a poem for me
..........
€#!!?
..00.0.1!@/:??
$&100100SOS
666##beast
................

Never mind Alexa
Traveler Tim

Someday technology’s going to  catch up
Then where will we be
Dec 2020 · 167
IF SO THEN
Traveler Dec 2020
If...
The engine of the universe
Is
Mathematical in nature

Then...
The circuits of consciousness
Are
Fundamentally incomplete

There is no scientific definition of consciousness

Reality is bleak
In the eyes of a scientist
Drowning
In the laws of physics.
Traveler Tim

I was talking to a scientist associate of mine.

Is love irreducible
Or a simplistic neuron??
Dec 2020 · 225
U R 1
Traveler Dec 2020
Catching up
I take a crash course
The end is near
And I’m just now
Shifting geer

What is real
That can’t be seen
Ever changing
My infinite needs

It seems we can only know what it is to approach death
and not the nature of the beast itself
that awaits our IMPENDING arrival!
Traveler Tim
Dec 2020 · 820
Bed Alone
Traveler Dec 2020
In my waking
The chaos sinks
I waist no time
To stop and think

The moment is now
I ponder my world
My deadlines
My children
My special girl

Pet my dogs
Sip my coffee
Hit a bowl
Write a poem

Work out
Play guitar
Walk in nature
Off I go
To bed alone
Traveler Tim

I’m going to get a job one of these days...
NOT!
Dec 2020 · 307
Every Part Of Life
Traveler Dec 2020
Can any part of life
be larger than life?
Those who think they know it all
lingers in the basement
of all knowing!
Traveler Tim

And if the band yer in
Starts playing different tunes
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon!

Pink Floyd
Dec 2020 · 854
Intoxicatingly Sober
Traveler Dec 2020
It’s me
But it’s not me
The witness behind
It’s always watching
I pretend to hide

This is my life
So why would it care
What ever I think
It is aware

And when I give in
Nirvana take over
The laws of nature
Intoxicatingly sober!
Traveler Tim
Dec 2020 · 261
BEYOND INTENT
Traveler Dec 2020
All is vanity
The meanings of passion
The aesthetic expression
The lines we draw and stay within
Even love is beyond intent
Vanity transcends
Flowing from our pens
And so we breathe again
Traveler Tim
Dec 2020 · 291
OUR SPIRITS
Traveler Dec 2020
I can’t take hate personally
For those who hate
Evolution came late
A mere push or shove
Cannot discourage true love

Behind walls
Difference is contained
Where privilege and pleasure
Allows for no pain

I dream in the clouds
I exist in the rain
Our spirits
Are exactly the same!
Traveler Tim
Nov 2020 · 429
I-say’a-so’s
Traveler Nov 2020
From the book of
“ I say so ‘s”
(Not Isaiah)

Nothing can really be described
yet a poet paints a picture
in your mind

No one can be converted
until their truth
has been perverted

Lies needs to be believed
the truth doesn’t
we’ve all believed
a lie that wasn’t

There’s no future
there’s no pass
there’s only the present
Life is a state of either
Pain, pleasure or pleasant

Do not stop desiring to desire
The meaning of your life
Lies within your passions!
Traveler Tim
Nov 2020 · 884
The Poetic Ending
Traveler Nov 2020
My ego tried to impress me
But the fact is, I’m losing ground
When I wrestled with my Demons
God is nowhere to be found

My RNA is failing
In a  blemished tarnished blur
My eyes are getting tired and
I’m searching for my words

My dreams are but exhausted
I’ve lived and lied and loved
I took the devil by his horns
I never did give up!

What sound did I make
What word did I leave out
If I’ve said my all
Where is my curtain call

Now
My dressing room is bear
The end was somewhere in there.
Traveler Tim

Exit stage left
Nov 2020 · 105
A Haiku Is But...
Traveler Nov 2020
A haiku is but
Infinity in action
An instant of life
Traveler Tim
Nov 2020 · 309
Narcissistic Creatures
Traveler Nov 2020
Well
it seems
the longer
the lyrics
the less the marks🎯

Hell🔥
Such was
my grandest
of all Opus🥇
never even
made the charts

****
this blasted
narcissism
I’m strung out
on cultural plagiarism

A little here a little there
all unknowing of course it tis
but we all need our fixes
so we all choose our sources
🗝
John locks
maybe
Shakespeare
🌏
Deep Earth in nature
Beyond the hemisphere
🧠
We feel it
we breathe it
we exhale

our gift🎁
is a
Beautiful
Spell
🍄
Traveler 🧳
Nov 2020 · 95
The Erasing
Traveler Nov 2020
It’s soft red rubber friction
Wearing away my existence
The editor of this play
Writing my character out

Out of their minds
A ghost of a memory
My character
Deleted from the screen

Unlike most
I cannot dissolve into this dream
And so shines the god in me!
Traveler Tim
Nov 2020 · 510
Thankfully Ungiven
Traveler Nov 2020
In the views of hindsight
Suffering extends
Should have just let it go
The victim within

Love and wonder
Beyond hope
You gave your all
It’s how we cope

They wither on
And leave you
The ones that once
Held you tight
You are but
The black sheep
In a hierarchical
Flight!
Traveler Tim

It’s all good
Shake it off
Nov 2020 · 390
In Madness Lies Sanity
Traveler Nov 2020
I give my love
To get it back
Oh what ethics
My morals lack

In a war against apathy
Empathy is rampart

The walls of paradise
Blackout the sun

Without the shadow
There cannot be the substance

What madness this all is!
This ridiculous order of chaos
Traveler Tim
Nov 2020 · 426
Affirmation of life
Traveler Nov 2020
If it feels good do it again
In repetitive continuum

Take the mind for a ride
We are mechanically sound
The great and powerful
imagination
is hardly earthbound

In the freedom of subjectivity
emptiness
and
nothingness
can hardly exist

Traveling the synapses
Is a very blissful trip!
Traveler Tim

The empty boat is flooded with moonlight
Nov 2020 · 708
Alan Watts
Traveler Nov 2020
In the landscape of spring
There is nothing superior or nothing inferior
The flowering branches grow naturally some shorts some long
........
Traveler

We.seed our fields
With poppies of pleasure
The light of our poetic souls
Includes and transcends
All nature

The first ripe fruit
On the tree of godhead
The harvesters of passion
Rooted in imagination

Never will we cease to expand!
Traveler Tim
Nov 2020 · 147
Subatomic Love
Traveler Nov 2020
The more matter the merrier
My extroversion for love
Can hardly be satisfied
People, animals
Mountain, canyons
Forest and sea
Blue skies
Down to mysterious galaxies
Love is the material
That existence is made of!
Traveler Tim
Nov 2020 · 201
When I Die
Traveler Nov 2020
I don't ever want to die
But if I had to choose
   Which way to go.....

Perhaps a hungry coyote
Would share me with it's pack
Tear my flesh limb from limb
And chew my bones to plaque  

Perhaps a poison lizard
Green with a yellow streak
Come crawling up from a stool
And bite me on the meat

Perhaps a giant boulder
At a famous mountain range
Could crash upon my head
And squish out all my brains

Like Bonnie and Clyde
Or a Challenger Astronaut
I want to go
Where the cameras have not
Screaming at the burning stake
Freezing in the artic waist
High falling
Last gasp drawing
Deep sea drowning
Ear ringing gunfire
Bomb blowing
Blast
KABOOM!

At the end my days
‘Cause
It’s better to go out with a bang
Then it is to quietly fade
Away.............
Traveler Tim

Wouldn't be anything left of me to box up if it were up to me. Fortunately it isn't!
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