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Mar 2020 · 215
Early Thaw Observations
Traveler Mar 2020
Last year’s leaves incapacitated in an icy grave..
Burly cattails poking up through the surface of the icy lake.
With my back  on the dock my feet resting comfortably
on the bright reflective white ice, from here I write.
The air temperature at 40 Fahrenheit seems like summer,
I soak up the beautiful rays while fumbling with my device.
Two Canadian snow geese fly over honking
catching my dog and my attention, our eyes follow their flight.
Green, grey and brown quacking  mallards swim along the melted shore line, it's mating time.
Puffy black squirrels hopping from tree to tree a jungle gym
high above in the forest canape. Over. way over on the other side of the lake I see deer near the shore line. I try to bring them to my dogs nearsighted attention but only my human eye can see.
Today the world looks beautiful from these poetic eyes.
TT
Mar 2020 · 354
Jargon
Traveler Mar 2020
Subatomic particles creatively connecting
In cybernetic- inter-neural-net-space
Observable passions streaming our fate's
Touching these screen of invisibly
Circuits beneath at lighting speed
The barriers between you and me
Words that flow from pleasure zones
How do we know what no others know
Poetic minds breaking the cryptic code
The muse of wonder the gods of thunder
We were born in locus lands asunder
For with these thoughts I breathe
With in these lines I am finally free!
Traveler Tim
Traveler Mar 2020
Traveler
Watch Her choke as we burn Her oil
Frack Her in Her fertile soil
Festering life forms
In a enchanted garden
In debt to The Earth
No footprint pardoned..
ryn
Pillage and plunder Her precious rocks
Engorge Her full with artificial stock
Praise Her beauty
yet **** for Her bounty
What careless minds conceived
Our callous hands retrieved
Traveler & ryn
Collaboration


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGfuIBs2r28
Mar 2020 · 256
Untitled Poem
Traveler Mar 2020
From here
I touch and squeeze
Friction current
Electricity

From here I
***** minds
Smolder in gently
From behind

On your keys
I’m begging please
I can’t get my freak on
These cyber machines

From here
I can taste
Your precious pretty
I can smell your
Nitty gritty

These circuits
Flash with pixel power
Emotional dread
Romantic young flowers
And finally and for most
The connection of
Cyber ghost
...........
Traveler Tim
Mar 2020 · 403
Impurity’s
Traveler Mar 2020
A silent star
Of our point of view
The moon
Tugging on the waters
Of youth
The sun
A burning pandemic
Of blistering fun
But we won't be here
When said and done
Not these shells
Of flesh and dung
So Beautifully ugly
This secular tongue
This Earth
Forever more
Eternity a revolving door
We’ve all been here before
.................
Traveler Tim
Mar 2020 · 232
Cliches On Display
Traveler Mar 2020
At two mice power
my wheel's are'a rolling
Get back jack
I'm a smocking an'a toking
What would you know
'bout that?!
I been down
to the bottom of the bottle
These cliches
are hard to swallow
I 'm ready to lead
if you'ready to follow
right off the bat
Don't mind if your thin
don't care if you're fat
leave a number
I'll hit you back
as a matter of fact!
...............................
Traveler Tim
Mar 2020 · 403
PANDEMIC
Traveler Mar 2020
Like the last Roman empire
  Our republic is but a facade
Capitalism has sold out to corporatism
  Our establishment has sold out to the highest bidder


I join the quitters..
TT
Mar 2020 · 87
Just a Word
Traveler Mar 2020
Let me just say this
you know how
when you were wrong
about everything?
  Well you're still wrong..
<...........................>
Mar 2020 · 255
Learn To Levitate
Traveler Mar 2020
The bottom has falling out
Levitation is a must
I collect my abilities
Disability was just a crutch

Retired warrior conditions
A construct of altered cognition
We all grudge the *****
Why else would we put hope
In our metaphysical
Poetic encryption's
  
I assure you
It is all merely mind over matter
Surely a little bit older
And of course a bit fatter
But levitation, I'll have at her!!
..................................................
Traveler Tim
Mar 2020 · 68
How I Do It
Traveler Mar 2020
When suddenly
words come to me
I write them out
I scribble and scratch
separate a batch
turnaround
and reattach
scrapes of paper
scattered about
and somehow
someway
a poem comes out
Traveler Tim
Mar 2020 · 169
Awaiting
Traveler Mar 2020
I waited
and watched
no one came
I applied myself
just the same
There on the horizon
a spark a blur
I never believed
that I deserve
I’m awaiting these words to make some kind of sense
Mar 2020 · 119
AT LEAST TRY
Traveler Mar 2020
If you can't hold on
you'll lose yourself in stages
parts of you have already fallen behind
Try to gather yourself up
being human can be tough
abusiveness is an ugly thing
don't believe the things that you're saying
At Least Try
..........................
TT
Mar 2020 · 274
HOPE IN
Traveler Mar 2020
When red is all I see
I **** my pen and let it bleed
woes, curses, miseries
This world is built
on envy, hate and greed

When love I aim to feel
I play guitar
upon my hill
Looking down on
the desperately broken
for someone to put
my last hope in
.................................
Traveler Tim
Mar 2020 · 39
ICE MELT
Traveler Mar 2020
Nearer to me then any one lover
My own flesh under these covers
Aches and pains and memories
Shall I anticipate another dream

Below freezing wind on my face
Gotta keep moving no time to waste
Love can turn into a forsaken storm
I gotta keep moving
I gotta stay warm
...........................
Traveler Tim
Mar 2020 · 69
SORE Flesh
Traveler Mar 2020
Are you still at it
how far is far enough
so far you've taken everything
you thought would matter
now will you destroy my love
my ability to love the world
my search for the morning sunlight
to embrace life and refuse to let go
how many more meat hooks
do you have in store
ripping my flesh away
breaking the broken pieces
smaller and smaller
'til you sweep me away
.............................................
TT
Mar 2020 · 144
Other People’s Truths
Traveler Mar 2020
These fires
burning
out of control
these fragile empathetic
artistic souls
the table set
pen sharp as a sword
the heart steady
ready for war
it's fairly clear
yet cleverly stoic
conspicuous in nature  
no way to own it
Traveler Tim
Other people’s truths
Mar 2020 · 337
Trek
Traveler Mar 2020
No test
no lesson to behold
life keeps kicking me
lower then low
a snow covered tent
deep in the woods
an old abandon barns
with a caved in roof
the cold follows me
as I aimlessly trek
in search of somewhere
I haven't tread yet
Traveler Tim
Mar 2020 · 289
Note 57.1:DISTRACTIONS
Traveler Mar 2020
I've had enough
of all these living
breathing distractions
fused to my synaptic reactions
reminding me that I am but one
the leash of realization weighs a ton
in harmonicas hormonal perfection
it's easy to lose an election
It's a beautiful day
I never want it to end
but I lose my balance
when the distractions set in
......................................
Traveler Tim
Mar 2020 · 198
Writers block?
Traveler Mar 2020
none here
Words run straight through me
all my thoughts
they just appear
systematically unruly
Traveler Tim
Feb 2020 · 200
Note 57
Traveler Feb 2020
It's quickly unfolding
the death of this festering paradigm
reviling the corpse of indifference  
Change come hard
while the opposition sleeps
time is a monster in a dream
wake up!, wake up! is what it screams.
Traveler Tim

Temporal Fugue

Temporal Fugue  :(
Evil rarely sleeps
as grease upon the wheel
into mind and dreams it seeps
not chance, not fake
but real

1


10h
Traveler

Traveler   :E
evil is a victim scorn
an outlaw torn
a scull with horns
wicked evilness never morns!
Feb 2020 · 132
Local Man
Traveler Feb 2020
There's this crazy old Veteran
lives in an attic with his dog
You always see them walking
he loves to stop and talk
His dog will rest upon the ground
while he rambles on aimlessly
He's crazy and he's lonely
Hell! I do believe he's me
Traveler Tim
Feb 2020 · 120
Dream's Dread
Traveler Feb 2020
I run, skip and jive
subconsciously
Still...
the controlling part of myself
won't be deceived
I don't want to server
I don't want to follow
I've sentenced myself
and in dream's dread I wallow
........................................................
Traveler Tim

I'm stuck in a bad place, am I a fool or could this happen to you...
Feb 2020 · 99
Simple Easy Love
Traveler Feb 2020
Love wears me out
'cause
I have to give it my all
My doubt fears an ending
My shadow is ten feet tall

Worry cripples my passion
For I've lost lovers and friends  
So I love my guitar, I love my dog
With a heart that never mends

Love is an ache in my chest
The memory grows less and less
Of what robbed my life
And left me to grieve
So now
I love my truck and my TV
.................................................
Traveler Tim
Feb 2020 · 152
EYES ACROSS THE SEAS
Traveler Feb 2020
As I'm looking through your eyes
in an attempt to connect,
I can see your expectations have yet to be met.
Peering through digital lens
the differences are blinding.
In broken sentences definitions
are slowly unwinding.

I wonder if you trust your leaders
or is all the world deceived.
Time is a roller coaster
We're at the top of the big hill
    falling free...
Traveler Tim
Feb 2020 · 280
A Look From Here
Traveler Feb 2020
It’s as bright as hell
my eyes are squinting
Due-east the sun is rising
The shining snow welcomes
a break from days of overcast
Banshee and I aimlessly walk across
the frozen lake to avoid the traffic of the winding slippery busy roads
Dead critters feathers and fur
cars and trucks slip and swerve
Ice fishers on the horizon
year rounders in summer cottages
Far and few people but hardly alone
So I sit on this ice and write this poem
...............
Traveler Tim
Feb 2020 · 266
The janitor
Traveler Feb 2020
Suddenly there was a loss of interest,
why do we insist upon gratification.
I suspect we are limited
by our own realities.
We sleep while the dreaming’s good.
Until a force awakens us,
then we sleep walk
through our nightmares.
Until we realize
we were never asleep.
...........
Traveler Tim
Traveler Feb 2020
Traveler...
i’d like to begin
with the way i feel
but that's
not as
important
as paying the bills
so i'll do your bidden
write a little song
put you in the sky
where you belong


BeautifullyBroken... 
I will travel with the
Traveler
Let me take you away
where rent is free
allowing
you to be you and
me to be me
Come with me to the sky
you hold my hand and
I'll hold your pain
as you make me laugh as
we dance in the rain

Traveler...
i’d like to simplify
my heavy heart's
intent
but surely that
won't pay
the overdue
rent
so i'll be
dancing on the lawn
laugh at the tube
anything it takes
to satisfy you

Beautifulillybroken...
together we fly
as high as we can
our sacred cloud
where no man dares
not allowed
I'll do anything for you
until you're fully
gratified its true
.........................
Traveler Tim
BeautifullyBroken
Traveler Feb 2020
No need for us to be
let go the tourniquet
let us bleed
a dark prayer
no candles flickering
deeper now
slow your dripping
coagulate your heart
release your bowls
and let us part

Now that wasn't so bad...
Your still breathing?!
are you mad!

Did you escape the pain?
defeat the sorrow?
We can always try again tomorrow.
.....................................................
Traveler Tim
Feb 2020 · 71
THE LOWEST HELL
Traveler Feb 2020
There is a hell
Beyond the worst
A place where living
Becomes a curse

A restless feeling
Trapped within your gut
When you know your time
Is almost up

Passion dies
In the fear of night
There's no comfort
In the struggle of life

The heart sinks
The mind slips
Even the hand
Can hardly grip

The darkest day of a soul
Shines compared to this lowest low.
Traveler Tim Re-posted from Dec 13-2016

revisited 1-2020
Feb 2020 · 245
HURTING?
Traveler Feb 2020
You're not alone
In your pain
All your understanding
Has been ordained

Open your eyes
Beyond what you see
Forget what you think you know
And just try to breathe

Woven into the fabric of consciousness
Are the assumptions of reality
And the deception of imagination
But mostly a need to survive
Put down the knives
And walk outside

I feel for you...
Traveler Tim
Feb 2020 · 226
Only A Mess (not a poem)
Traveler Feb 2020
Over the edge
I quiver to look
there’s no bottom  
only a hook
dead bait
hanging
excuse the smell
this is but a tasteless mess
but what the hell!
No filter to muffle
the parasitical ink
grimmest in the minds nose
metaphorical stinks
But here I'll add
I wish you the best
After all this isn't a poem
it's only a mess
Traveler Tim
Feb 2020 · 186
SNOW
Traveler Feb 2020
The
      + +snow+ +
                 in steady
                          + +
                                  Silent
                      ­        +            + + +
                                       +       sheets
                                                       + + + + +
                                                     +      of  numbing
                                                                ­ + + + +  + +
                                                            +  ­               cold
                                                            ­           +           + +                                                               + +           + +   + +
                                                               ­              Blankets
                                                                ­            +  +  + +
                                                               ­           the frozen
                                                                ­                   + + +           
                                                    ­                            tundra        
                                                                ­                + + + +
                                                                ­                  of  my
                                        ­                                          + + + + +
                                                               ­                        soul
                                                            ­                  +           + + +
                                                          +    ­        +         +       +  +   +    +
                                                          ­        +     +       +   +   +      0  +     +
                                                               ­               +     +           -()-      +   +
                                             +                +­           +     +      +      /\       + +
tt.  And I see now that this graph doesn’t work on an iPhone
Feb 2020 · 71
But a dream
Traveler Feb 2020
It's all but a dream
focused upon narrow  
projections of a world
forged by tainted perception.
Scrutiny scrutiny scrutiny
Fear not
For this understanding that repels logic
is slowly disassociated
by continual contemplation
hopefully to wake in the end
......................................
Feb 2020 · 399
Phony’s
Traveler Feb 2020
All this weight dragging me down
Get your hands off me!
Must I be both sober and sound
Get your paws off me!
Will you let me go, my way
out into the freezing snows okay
Get your wicked claws out of me

To you and all your cronies
I am just a phony
so please get your hands off me
TT

A massage to all the players in my hell dream
I will awaken soon
Feb 2020 · 71
Questionable Subject!
Traveler Feb 2020
I assure you
This is not inappropriate
I just feel the need to disclose this
No actually I'm bursting at the seams
So get set to know...
Beep...Beep...Beep
                        Hold on, I got’a take this.........................
Temporal Fugue  ;D
Come what may
and yes, what might
no what was done
but what was
right

1


2d
Traveler

Traveler   :-D
Hear here now!
Change is a coming
To the street a running
The people have all spoken
the D convention has to be joking!
Feb 2020 · 176
{{{{{GREY MATER PLEDGE}}}}}
Traveler Feb 2020
A simple commitment                    
Two hafts of one brain
In a hemispheric continuum
Intentional intentions
A relentless creative right arm comforts an intellectually sore left arm
And the soul rolls on  
Another divided flight........
TT
Jan 2020 · 109
The Last Few Miles
Traveler Jan 2020
I get lost in pleasure
The child playing tag
Running and laughing
I beg to make it last

A place in my dreams
Where I was once free
Wet behind the ears
Innocent and green

Why'd I need to know
Why'd I need to learn
Eyes are watching us
Sin and we will burn

Heavy on our hearts
Parasites in our brains
The lies we were tough
We'll never be the same

Oh please come back
Innocence of youth
Storm clouds of lies
Blinding the truth

Tell not the children
Santa Clause tales
Pretending leaves us
Believing in Hell

Running from devils
Demons inside
Please take it back
All of those lies

Return our innocence
The care free happy child
Let us go outside and play
Let us love ourselves  
These last few miles
..................................
Traveler Tim The Typo
Jan 2020 · 62
Priestess Less Priest
Traveler Jan 2020
Beautifully Broken...

And so
Even a master falls
Down from heaven
To lose it all

Hell is but pain
We hold in our hearts
Pushing our lies
In our grocery carts

Behind my eyes
I see me crawl
No where to fly
Behind these walls

It's only a glitch
In the mind set of fear
In need of control
It's "I" that steers

A human condition
Assigned to a dream
Beautifully Broken
Priestess less Priest

The comfort of sorrow
Darkens our hope
Holding to tight
To the noose of the rope

Let go and fall
Into the void
Somewhere beyond
This life we destroy

Awake the Master
And come back home
Don't believe the lies
For we are never alone!


Dear Priestess
Please come back
........................
Traveler Tim


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_JnCWT-_O8&list=RDk_JnCWT-_O8&start_radio=1
Jan 2020 · 483
Hellopoetry
Traveler Jan 2020
Is there any buddy out there?

Am I the only one?

Could this be the end?

Is this site said and done?

Shall I post 1 million words and read them to myself

Shall I write 1 million poems and place them on a shelf

Within the womb
With in the mother
Have I yet to discover
Light beyond the darkness
Forcing me to breathe
Is there anybody out there
Or am I all alone
Life is but a dream
We cannot control
........
TT
Jan 2020 · 172
The Art Of Peace
Traveler Jan 2020
I have no need to read
The Art Of War
For I am an artist of peace
I have no need
To even the score
I have no fear to release
Traveler Tim
Jan 2020 · 69
Attention Artist!
Traveler Jan 2020
Refuse to suffer
For what is not true
The state of heaven
Is lost in false rules
All the fear
Wounds on our hearts
We had no choice
Right from the start
Happiness runs
Far and quite deep
Open your heart
Let your love leak!
Traveler Tim
Dec 2019 · 560
LAY THERE LAME
Traveler Dec 2019
Dreaming is for nights
Keeps us sleeping tight
Close your eyes
Don’t try an fight
Dream until it’s light

Can dreams really come true
Perhaps
We’ve all been fooled
Dreaming
Is an unconscious thing
Get on up
Or lay there lame

An enter dimension
Of doubtful rules
Go to bed late
And sleep until noon
Lay there lame
In serotonin stasis
Or get on up
And
Tie yer' laces!
Traveler Tim
Dec 2019 · 581
FRESH WINGS
Traveler Dec 2019
My passion ignites
As I read their thought's
Deep in contemplation
Their hearts get tossed
So unaware of their special gift's
And so here I must insist
The nest is high, the fall is far
But your not a nestlings
Your are a rising star
Dear young prodigies
Life is how it ought to be....
Humane stains
Droplets of pain
Mixed in a bucket
Of why oh why's
Post cognition
Hidden behind
Fresh wings
Write it and post it
It's time for you to fly.....

My comments aren't advice
I only say , hay
Roll those dice!
Traveler Tim
Dec 2019 · 785
My Dear Followers
Traveler Dec 2019
My dear followers
I seek what you seek
Come share my shadow world
And love me at my least
I will sing a sad, sad songs
In the key of sore heart break
I'll be sure to keep my rhyme
And riddles copiously vague
.....................................
Traveler
Dec 2019 · 951
KILL THE BEAST!
Traveler Dec 2019
Untie these hands
Or I'll chew through these ropes
Derail your trains
Stick a stick in your spokes

You've ran your course
Evil Hand of War
You've made our world
Your killing floor

I'll tear you down
I'll spit you out
I am the Traveler
Have no doubt

The muse of peace
Is on the prowl
Changing winds
Moan and howl

**** the beast
**** the beast
**** the gosh ****
CORPORATE BEAST!

.....................
Traveler

Us or them? We want peace world wide!
Dec 2019 · 382
Flames Of love
Traveler Dec 2019
My love is non-narcotic
I need something stronger
Kinda' like *******
Opiates when I wrong her

My love is but a fire
That burns me at both ends
Her love is high grade fuel
Burning hot with sin

A yawning neon moon
Whispers to a waking earth
The flames of love burn hot
Still entropy is our curse
Traveler Tim
Dec 2019 · 219
Repetitiousness
Traveler Dec 2019
Sometimes I go out my way for a laugh
Sometimes I forget when it's time to come back
Running on overdrive
Faster then Bonnie and Clyde

I like to get lost in the woods
I'd live there if I could
In the pines I like to hide
Near a riverside

I don't need much sleep theses days
My hairs have all turn grey
I get up early and write
And post my poem at first light

Then off to run my farm
To keep my crazy world from harm
Traveler Tim
Dec 2019 · 551
Why I Grieve
Traveler Dec 2019
I'm truly not trying to boast
Of my enormous greed
I have all that a human being
Could ever possibly need
No cancer, no dooms day disease
I've a heart of gold
So why do I grieve?

Everywhere I look I see sad eyes
Cutting strait through to my core
So many never make it this far
Did you lose, were you torn?

Her sad eyes were in my care
And then she died...
Now everyone's sadness
Eat's me alive
..................................................
Traveler Tim
Traveler Dec 2019
....all you ever do is watch politics,
play guitar and write poetry....

...what did you use the Charge Card for this ti'me...,,,....,,,,...
....we just can't afford to take care of everybody....

Really!...another bottle...
                                 ......ya I expected such from you...
Tim

Isn't love great?
Dec 2019 · 1.3k
REAL LOVE
Traveler Dec 2019
I stand for love
For I believe love
Holds the only remedy
After all everyone deserves
To live their live's in
A state of blissful dignity

My weary pen runs dry
As my word's frantically cry
What if it was you or I
Would a Poet love you
Enough to even try

Try and shed light
On your private hell
Even if it were to mean
This soul I must sell
Real love is where I live
Surely I was put here
To give and give
And give

In my callused hands
I grip the dredge
Of humanity
Like a still born
I cradle calamity
I could never let you fall
With real love
I will carry us all
.......................
Traveler Tim
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