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Jun 2018 · 4.2k
RUN FOR A REAL LIFE
Traveler Jun 2018
Beliefs
Effect areas
Of our intelligence  
That sould otherwise
Contemplate logically

Waiting for
Miracles
Impossibly real
Stuck in caves
Where kindness
And fear
Come together
And ****

More than an image
The sky outside
Turn around
And run for the real life!
Traveler Tim

Greek in origin (:
Jun 2018 · 535
ABUNDANCES
Traveler Jun 2018
An abundance of life
In a cycle of death
How much living
Could we have left?

An abundance of stars
Displayed in the sky
Endless pleasures
On a summer's night
Hear and see
Touch and feel
The reality of existence
Consume at will

An abundance of love
To plant in our graves
Pushing up daisies
I wish we could stay
......
Traveler Tim
Jun 2018 · 281
EMPIRICALLY
Traveler Jun 2018
It might sound courageous
Or a bit naive
But I'm not incline
To simply agree
With subjective thoughts
Or allegories
I gather my objections
Empirically

My god is logic
And the goddess of love
No need to bow down
They fit like a glove
A creative heart
And a hungry soul
Are the gifts and curses
Of growing old...
Traveler Tim
Jun 2018 · 379
NEUROPOEMMITTERS
Traveler Jun 2018
I think in rhymes
As I'm gathering prose
Well crafted rhythms
Expressed in deep soul
Patterns of passion
Heart beat led
Chemicals transmitting
Love, hate and dread
Secreting creations
The ****** of mind
I love to write
Whenever it's time!
...........
Traveler Tim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqbwMDBxuRY
Jun 2018 · 491
BIGTOPS
Traveler Jun 2018
Clowns
Faceless whites
Big wide smiles
Lips pulled tight
Red round noses
Beady bigot eyes
World view
That never die

Clowns
In circus tents
Big White Houses
Police agents
Big pink elephants
Fill the ring
Clowns
Are running everything!
Traveler Tim
Jun 2018 · 210
DOMESTIC
Traveler Jun 2018
Domesticated
And set free on life
Find a car, a job, a wife
Play outside, until dark
Walk your serves dog
To the park...

Drink a beer to relax
In the end
The cards are stacked
On the road
Or in the field
A worn out soul
Is what we yield

A yawn, a word
A mere memory
The domestication
Of our species
......
Traveler Tim
Jun 2018 · 689
DEAR FRIENDS
Traveler Jun 2018
Would you please
Stay awhile with me
Unleash the shadows
Let the darkness free
Ride the waves
In creative bliss
Don't lose hope
Life is a risk

Release your glands
In chemical reactions
Nurtured in nature's
Raw naked passions
Thunder bolts
In the power of pens
Let it all out
And let us all in

Please stay
All of you, my friends!
Traveler Tim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fcRa5Z6LmU
Jun 2018 · 257
BABY STATUE
Traveler Jun 2018
Whisk me away oh Devil
To a land of precious lies
Where sleeping beauties dream
In falsehoods synchronized

To where
Creatures clad in dark attire
Cater to our dark desires
These beasts who bleed
Our burden dry
Underneath a wicked sky

Cemetery sunrise gathering gloom
Pine away in tomorrow's tomb
Baby statues with broken wings
Frozen postures, silent screams

Burning at the stake of wrath
Hell is but a well worn path
Leading to a putrid end
   Broken wings of human sin...
I was setting on a cemetery bench
when I wrote this,


Traveler Tim

But on a positive note... (-;
Jun 2018 · 1.8k
LOGIC AND REASON
Traveler Jun 2018
Unbridled absolutes
Existentially running free
No one can tell you
What not to believe
Harvest your values
Sharpen your heart
Don't let fears
Tear us apart...

Compassion and mercy
Are known to sustain
Logic and reason
Are one and the same
.....
Traveler Tim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JsW1W13fzo&list=RD_JsW1W13fzo&start_radio=1
Jun 2018 · 402
A RACE OF JOHNNY ROTTENS
Traveler Jun 2018
This world taught me very well
How to survive in a prison cell
Retreating in a fleeting moment
From the heavy hand of life’s opponent
Throwing pennies in a well
Even wishes are for sale
And the universe holds a reward
For those who live beyond the sword
Yet beyond the sword remains a fist
To take a swing, who can resist
Whether right or wrong it’s never forgotten
It’s one big race of Johnny Rotten's
The eyes in the mirror would have their say
But I turned my head and walked away
The rage in our heart won’t be silenced
Even if we abstain from a life of violence...
Traveler Tim
I mean no offence to people named Johnny!
Unless there rotten...
Jun 2018 · 335
SANDY WET AND COLD
Traveler Jun 2018
I've lost the connection
Not a signal to be reached
My heart is a cell phone
Lost on a beach

Tide coming in
Sandy, wet and cold
My poem
Is but a voice mail
  My battery
Running low

Contacts gone forever
Not a cloud to hold on
This device of all I am
Sinking in a pond...
Traveler Tim

Writers block lately
Jun 2018 · 542
KEY WORDS
Traveler Jun 2018
Words
Free to be spoken
Written down
Bent or broken
Encouraging
Feelings inside
Endorphin release
With a twist of the mind

Expressed
But seldom explained
Maps and mazes
Through the poetic brain
Meditatively rewarding
Each creation creates
But do beware
Words are but keys
That open floodgates
.....
Traveler Tim
May 2018 · 325
BUZZ KILL
Traveler May 2018
I hate to nag but....
What have we done to fix this
Before it's too late
.....
Traveler Tim
Attempt at a HAIKU
May 2018 · 822
BREATH TAKING
Traveler May 2018
Blessing, I can say
I still have my share
Simultaneously
Curses upon curses
Slowly strip me bare

Beautiful dreams
Mixed in nightmarish themes  
We've all met the dark
With the voiceless scream
No one immune
To this dysfunctional maze
No one gets out alive
Of this breath taking play

Oh but from the heart of a child
It was every bit worthwhile!
Traveler Tim
May 2018 · 372
HEY YOU!
Traveler May 2018
Don't you have something better to do?
I mean come on now!
Really!
Another post?

I'm sure your floor needs sweeping
And
There's a pile of clothes at the end of your bed
Your under arms are a bit stinky
Brush your teeth and comb your head!

My goodness...
There's a forest growing
Where your lawn used to be!
And the oil light is on
In your 2003
Ya, time to get a new Jeep

This week's ***** dishes have grown green
The trashcan smells like rotten meat
The world stands still awaiting your care...
And here you are
Wasting away with me right here!
Traveler Tim
May 2018 · 687
SLEEPYHEAD
Traveler May 2018
This world can causes such sadness
Such suffering I cannot bear
Yet I drove her to her madness
And then I left her there

Close the world, shut out the sky
Allow this day to pass and die
‘Til the dreamer drifts to sleep
Take it now this soul you seek

Your eyes ask the questions why
My shame has no answer
She haunts me late at nights
The tiny little dancer

So far from being whole
Now my days are growing cold
Won’t be long until the reap
Now the dreamer drifts to sleep
.....
Traveler Tim

Written 2001
May 2018 · 383
DEALS
Traveler May 2018
Hell hounds
The buying of souls
I once met the Devil
Down at the cross roads
Deals were struck
In poetic prose
I rhymed myself
In to Hell's hold

And now whips of flames
Await my last breath
Mere songs and word
The demons all laugh
Eternal flesh laid to waste
Beware
The Devil wears
   A friendly face...
Traveler Tim

Actually I'm atheist!
May 2018 · 846
STARLIT SKIES
Traveler May 2018
Beyond these pages
I'm still alive
Raring to live
    Before I die...
At least another
Hundred
Thousand miles
Wheels swiftly spinning
A Traveler wearing a smile
Perhaps we'll meet
Along the way
Have you ever been
To outer space?
We could watch
The moon go by
From a dark
Starlit sky
.....
Traveler Tim
May 2018 · 267
PUNCH DRUNK
Traveler May 2018
Don't want to be no Palestinian
Don't want'a be no Yemenis'
What the **** is going on here
Jesus help someone please!
Traveler Tim
May 2018 · 800
OUT OF ORDER
Traveler May 2018
If only I could
Explain
This strangeness
I've never known
A plague upon
My worn out heart
Tread marks
Upon my soul

Twisted emotions
Warped by time
My weary muse
Walks the line
It's more than some
Mere travesties
Something is damaged
In my inter being

Perhaps a bit to long in Hell
Forced to survive
The prison cells
The scourge that came
In the afterbirth
Societies label
Of my true worth

All these things
Forevermore
Below the surface
I lost this war
...
Traveler Tim
May 2018 · 445
SUPREMACY
Traveler May 2018
Superstition
Is the foundation
Of magical beliefs
Supremacy mindsets
Secret police
Religious in nature
Invisible in being
Chosen for the obvious
Position as kings
  
All others are animals
If they're not one of us
Direct them to
The back of the bus

If supremacy is the image
Of some intolerance maker
Perhaps love
Is the holy role breaker!
Traveler Tim
May 2018 · 394
THE ESTABLISHMENT
Traveler May 2018
At all times
I'm forced to hold it
In the front of my mind
The fact that
I am separate from them...

The war mongering neocons
Wall-Street, Big Pharma
The Military Industrial Complex
The Establishment of our two social parties
Mutated into an ugly
Form of legal corruption
Sanctioned by our own
Supreme Court's ignorance

It's time to take the power back!
The Constitution
(It's not just about guns)
When will we stop voting
For the same old choice
"The Establishment"
Traveler Tim
Slingshot, burning tires
Kites.... Really?
Murdering innocent people
With our money
in our name
Hell no
I am separate from the them!
May 2018 · 201
ETERNAL GREED
Traveler May 2018
Here and now lies the realm
The comings and goings
Of the mysterious soul

From the agony  
Of a primal birth
Into the ignorance
Of an exciting fleshly role

Speculations manifest
Reason evolves into mysteries
'Til all that's left
Is a superstitious guess
To ease our eternal goal
......
Traveler Tim

Death a door
We all must pass through
Yet I enjoyed this
Human zoo!!
May 2018 · 351
ALL I CAN
Traveler May 2018
Somewhere out there
Beyond my point of view
The unknown lingers
Bound by golden rules

Just below the horizon
Out of my line of sight
How many times before
I finally get it right

Open up and let us in
Or condemn us to be ******
But please be aware
Whoever's out there
I am doing all I can
....
Traveler Tim
May 2018 · 349
DROP MY BALLS
Traveler May 2018
Once I found
The greatest love
The greatest love of them all!
I swerved and I curved
I stumbled and I stalled
I embraced merely the essence
The goal of it all
But then I lost my grip
And I dropped the **** ball...
Traveler Tim
May 2018 · 7.9k
LIVE A LIE
Traveler May 2018
If you could feel
Certain thing I've done
The rush in my desires...
I assure you most
Would cut and run
From the lake
That burns like fire

Dancing to a primal beat
Where life is trampled
Under feet
To feed the furnace
Of evermore
No time for love
Or even war

If you could see
Through shell shocked eyes
You'd know just why
I live a lie
...
Traveler Tim
May 2018 · 389
EXISTENTIAL DOUBTS
Traveler May 2018
After exploring
Many alternate routes
With an ambitions to alleviate
All my existential doubts
The questions in the deeper depths
Beyond the endless spans...
I'm afraid it appears
We've all been tricked
Or somehow even ******
To a state of uncertainties
Where we temporally survive
And think the distant darkness
That by some chance we're still alive....
Traveler Tim
May 2018 · 312
BE BACK SOON
Traveler May 2018
In each and every spatial direction
Time is steadily consumed
Take aim for the here and now
Let comfort be your muse
....
Traveler Tim
May 2018 · 496
ANOTHER ROUND
Traveler May 2018
Subconsciously
It's already known
Enlightenment comes
When we're out getting ******

Yet for some reason
We insist on freewill
Rolling our own bones
Chasing those thrills

Eternally expanding
Entropy bound
Forever ordering
Another round!!!
Traveler Tim
May 2018 · 405
NEGOTIABLE
Traveler May 2018
It is only fair that
I should warn you...
In person
I am quite out spoken
Stern and sure in my
Liberal values

With a smile
And a wink in my caring eye
I would love to sell you
Your greatest passions
Your greatest pleasures
If you can't afford
We can negotiate
Trust me
I aim to accommodate

So...
If you are curious
Roll those bones
Award yourself
Answer the phone
Or
Take the blue pill
And
Wake up in bed
Fearing I maybe
A dealer of dread

But my name is my word
Integrity bound
And I have
The best stuff to sell around...
Traveler Tim
Ya
Matrix reference

This weekend the flee-markets
start in Michigan,
I am a Flipper!
May 2018 · 463
VULCAN CREED
Traveler May 2018
In the vestige
Of lingering peace
The enlightened heart
Takes no sides
Live long and prosper
Bravely into the night
....
Traveler Tim
May 2018 · 894
THE DaVinci TRIVIA
Traveler May 2018
That dad-blamed Darwin and his evolution
We got molesting priests and civil retribution
We got a lady on a beast committing prostitution
Oh no man...

We got holy rollers with their ***** money
They rule this land of milk and honey
They pray to god through their Easter Bunny
Was that the sun god or god's only son?
Oh no man
I'm not the one

We got the DaVinci code and mother Magdalene
Look out now there's another goddess on the scene
911... was it just a bad dream
Oh no man
I'm not the one
This is actually the intro to another song!
Called "Wake Up"
Traveler Tim
May 2018 · 623
THE END OF DAYS
Traveler May 2018
Once upon a midnight sky
the ice begin to melt
old and gray the end of days
I finally lost myself
I embraced a spark
of love and hope
a dream of you and I
a momentary lapse of reason
beneath a midnight sky
Traveler Tim
May 2018 · 446
DRAIN MY SWAMP
Traveler May 2018
I need relief
And so I write
Inside my head
It's far to bright
Too **** loud
The voices within
I drain my swamp
Through  keyboard
And pen

Upon the screen
The origins of strife
Worms in my psyche
Crawl into life
Into your mind
Festering thoughts
Ideologies
Where logic gets lost

Only to be replace
With the latest
Headlines
I drain when I can
To keep a clear mind
....
Traveler Tim
May 2018 · 3.3k
GRAVES
Traveler May 2018
And what about the lairs
Who whisper in our ears
Shadows in the corridors
Envy in their stare's
Evil eyes awatching
Wishing wicked things
I can feel them
Crawling across
The dirt of all our
Graves




An exercise in creativity....
Traveler Tim
May 2018 · 339
NEVER DIE
Traveler May 2018
Shall we dine
On wine and flesh?
There seems to be
Plenty left!
So pass around
The possum pie
Wine made out
Of dandelions

Lazy days
Of summer sun
Sleeping in
Like we're still young
Falling free
Blue ocean skies
Let our hearts
Never die...
......
Traveler Tim
Apr 2018 · 351
SERVICE DOG
Traveler Apr 2018
She needs me
like a service dog
When ever
Her heart turns black
Everytime I run away
My hungry heart comes back
......
Traveler Tim
Apr 2018 · 466
IN LONGING
Traveler Apr 2018
Oh sea of madness
Oh ocean of fools
This water between us
Is but a drowning-pool

Tomorrows is out of focus
In the dimness of foresight
Sticks and stones in pockets
This involuntary fight

No shelter from the tempest
The storms that never end
Just a longing to return
To embrace your love again....
Traveler Tim
Apr 2018 · 1.4k
STARVED
Traveler Apr 2018
Deep in my psyche
There's a poetry thirst
Dry are my thoughts
In wind storms of words

My heart is a desert
Of blistering heat
My mind is crawling
Towards a salty sea

And there at the edge
Of an ink-less abyss
I so hunger
And thirst
Just to write
And to live
>>>>>>>>
Traveler Tim
Apr 2018 · 447
MONSTERS AND COWARDS
Traveler Apr 2018
Monsters
Bigger than life
Eternally reasoning
The profits of strife
Wars in the badlands
Guns on the streets
So many monsters
Roaming the world free

Cowards
Living in fear
Fighting the monsters
Year after year
On guard all the time
An eye stuck open at night
No sooner we walk
Then run for our life's

A cloud of unrest
Sets on our minds
Because monsters
And cowards
Are one of a kind
.................

Human!
Traveler Tim
Apr 2018 · 414
GLITCHES
Traveler Apr 2018
Actually??
Well yes!
I do believe...
You were suppose to be mine  
But somewhere, somehow
Some skipped over moment
We were lost to a hiccup in time

Now you're so
So far away from me
Leaving my soul behind
Trying to shine silver
In grey clouds of rhyms
All because of a glitch
A glitch we can't rewind
....

...............................
Traveler Tim
Apr 2018 · 343
MORAL DEPLETION'S
Traveler Apr 2018
(Immigration)

And now
To top it all off
The loveless fake news stations
Are completely out of touch
With reality...

It seems the obvious
Normal reactions of humanity
(Love, mercy and compassion)
Are somehow over shadowed
By some type
Of logical human bigotry...

Sadly even our highest courts
At the highest of our thinking
Have decided
To allow such
Moral depletion

Where will they go
Where will they stay
How can we turn
Their children away?

.
.
.
.
.
.If you watch the news
You know
It's our own children
Mass murdering
Daily, non stop
Youth killing youth
And ya, every
Now and then the immigrants
Snap also, but not nearly as often...

No easy answer
Just take cover!!!
Traveler Tim
Apr 2018 · 543
DEAR BIG PHARMA
Traveler Apr 2018
Hay there big pharma!
It's prime time that you quit
Quit pushing all your deadly drugs
In our face while we're just trying to relax and live
Using sublime advertisement
Putting thoughts of cancer in our heads
Anxieties needing your special antidepressant meds

Discontinue use if you break out in a mad rash
Or if you start bleeding from your eyes or unfortunately
Your ***...

No thank you
Big Pharma
We will take a pass!
Traveler Tim
Apr 2018 · 326
UNSAFE PLACE
Traveler Apr 2018
I am the deafening
In the calming
Of their careless whispering
Echoing from the safe places
Of parallel universities

Mine are more
Than mere protagonist words
More than words that have less meaning
Than the eggshells
Walked upon
These are my words
  Right or wrong
And still going strong!

And I will love you all to death
You victims
You snowflakes
Young hearts of unrest
Say what you will
Let it all out
Take a big chance
Stand in your safe place and shout!

Then you will know
What free speech
Is really about!!
Traveler Tim
Apr 2018 · 302
SHADY SHOOTY
Traveler Apr 2018
There was a certain genral
As shady as can be
His army and his
Assets
He turned upon me
The fight
Drew long
The arrows unkind
Battlefields
Of morals
The crossing of lines
I’m still alive
Trying to break free
Chipping at the wall
They built around me
......
Traveler Tim
Mi. Attn Gen
Apr 2018 · 769
POET ENTROPY
Traveler Apr 2018
And when my mind
Is finally gone
No recall
Of what went wrong
Memories blurred
No longer cursed
Judged and blessed
Of all my worth

I will set quietly
In happy thoughts
Awaiting the stages
Where death is lost
Where you and I
Shall meet again
Hearts in minds
Behind our pens

No need to believe
In promises made
Entropy is
An eternal phase
.............
Traveler Tim
Apr 2018 · 685
EARTH’S DAY (And Beyond)
Traveler Apr 2018
Not unlike the rest of you
I was placed here
From beyond
Set adrift into this realm
Forced to be as one

The wreckage of my landing
The misery of my birth
We can never hope to be
More than what comes first

Holding on to misery
Somewhere deep within
It finds it's way up to the suffice  
Every now and then

Beyond the realm
Of gravitational pull
We shall break away
From the natural rules
Until then
Keep our Mother safe
After all
We are all together in this
Twirling through
Outer space
...
Traveler Tim
Apr 2018 · 359
HOPEFULLY ME
Traveler Apr 2018
Sometimes it feels
Like we're just holding on
Biding our time
To the end of our songs

Somehow I know
There's much more in store
So many more paths
So many more wars

Somewhere awaits
A peaceful reprieve
For all of the Poets
And hopefully me
Traveler Tim
Apr 2018 · 295
SHADOW COMING ROUND
Traveler Apr 2018
I'm sure by now
You have all felt
The unrest all around
A plague of darkness
Restless and ruthless
Lingering like gray clouds
A nagging dread
Seen in red
Through tired weary eyes
I can feel it in my bones
Shadows are passing by
.................
Traveler Tim
Apr 2018 · 429
VAGUE INSINUATIONS
Traveler Apr 2018
The magic of the moment, appeals to the heart
The essence of self-expression, portrays in fine art
Denounced of all logic, abstract with precision
Her image appears to lack her heart's intuition
Taunted like bees shaken in a jar
The artist offends her emotional scars
A nerve twitches the soul, excites the old
A mind so wise yet feebly slow
Love as a game extinguishes the flame
A pretty girl in my picture, I’ve forgotten her name
The ways of creativity feeds a fire
Her innocence is lost in my desire
Beauty and passion, a lust to stay young
The heart beats of wonder, before the guilt comes
The wink of an angel, the cast of a spell
The adolescent fear of kiss and tell
Broken like glass, then falls to the ground
A tender young heart lost and never found
And so the artist hides behind his creation
Only to expose such vague insinuations
Traveler Tim
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