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701 · Jun 2018
SOUL SHORT
Traveler Jun 2018
Dear universe
I've minimum to report
...
Our world is still spinning
Into entropy
And out of control
We know not yet
What we really
Need to know
Ice and fire
Hot lava and snow
Around and around
The sun we go
Gravity held
  Inertia repelled
All our matter
Heading for hell

Dear universe
Just letting you know!
Traveler Tim
701 · Mar 2015
SWEET GYPSY MAY
Traveler Mar 2015
Sweet Gypsy May
Oh what can I say
With the gift of the gods
Divinely displayed

Every look into mine eyes
A sinking heart abandons time
Shades of amber golden shines
In her world without confines

Words lost, knocking knees
My heart is skipping beats
Short black hair
I feel a bit queer
For if she were a he
Not sure I'd care

Her smile drains
My burdens dry
As I watch her leave
My soul asks why...
701 · Nov 2014
SURVIVE
Traveler Nov 2014
A chilly wicked wind blows
Freezing wet consuming snow
My body shivers shakes in degrees
Her winter wonderland
Covets the trees
Fall freezes
Damning leaves
Mother nature
Not appeased

The garden
Lay wasted
Which once
Was our
Bride
Frozen bitter
Barely alive
We must gather
Our strength
To once again
Survive...
700 · Feb 2015
FROZEN IN TIME
Traveler Feb 2015
The warmth remains
But only within
The tyrant called winter
Has closed us in

Apathetic dreamers
Lost in the cold
This frozen nightmare
Has taken its toll

Where is the May Queen
To free are beliefs
To return our magic
Frozen in grief

Oh but to pine
Away till it's time
The Keeper of Seasons
Changes her mind...
It is -20 Fahrenheit in this corner of the earth.
699 · Apr 2015
DEAD ENDINGS
Traveler Apr 2015
When she's alone
Such dreams
Such thoughts 
Such dead end paths
She longs to exhaust

When he's alone
Wonders of such
So many dead ends
Within his clutch
Traveler Tim
Re to 03=17
Traveler Jul 2017
Stick Man

Sticks and bones
Can write a poem
But words are
Seldom worthy
To explain
A deeper want
Like real beef
Instead of turkey...
To convey
Questionable thoughts
Where moralities
Ever pending
To write it down
And pass it on
Creative ears
Keep bending...

Skull

Bones and sticks
hand to pen
merely words, unspoken
driving down, to the end
not everything, is broken
tortured thoughts
as happiness sought
never simple, or easy
driving down the misery
of doors and feelings
open
....
Traveler Tim
Temporal Fugue
699 · Feb 2015
SO MANY THE MILES
Traveler Feb 2015
Once again the light of day shines forth
And the drunkenness of dreams subside
Sober thoughts embrace the moment
Slowly this brokenness mends inside

Oh, to be young again cries my inner child
To deprive this nature of life so vile
As the thought slips away I sadly smile
I ponder my days, so many more miles

To be with you again, my body sustains
To share but a moment, my mind remains
My soul lets me know that there’s life to be lived
Deep in my heart there love yet to give…..
698 · Dec 2016
STRINGS ATTACHED
Traveler Dec 2016
Puppets we are, being strung along
By the unseen forces of nature
Beyond our mortal control
With a desire to remain forever young
Yet against our will, we continue to grow old

The strings get cut yet the nerves still twitch
Perhaps to return somewhere our souls itch
Lost in this bottomless pit of dream
And blinded by all these things

If the puppet master were I
I wouldn’t allow anybody to die
Even if you told a thousand lies

And at least you'd know
The true face of your maker
And if somebody broke I’d be the breaker
Yet I wouldn’t be offended by the foresaker

But I’m only a puppet to blind to tell
Isn’t that the real hell?
Traveler Tim
12-20-03
696 · Feb 2014
UNFAIR WELL
Traveler Feb 2014
The breaking point where one snaps
The world seems so red out here
It’s a freight train running through my head
I’ve been here before, beyond pain
Your wall is blocking me out
I can’t taste you anymore
My hands have gone numb
I’m experiencing tunnel vision
My body is shaking violently
Hyperventilation is keeping me
From crying out,
“Please don’t go”
696 · Apr 2017
APATHIZER
Traveler Apr 2017
Dreadful experiences
The weary heart holds
Traumatic memories
Cling to the soul
Holding them in
Who can let go?

I come not
Seeking empathy
My pain has
No room for grief

This constant
Emotional turmoil
Bleeding me
Flooding my thoughts
Disturbing my dreams
Leave me be plural
In this singular scheme
....


Traveler Tim
695 · Mar 2016
TAKE NOT FOR GRANTED
Traveler Mar 2016
Wish I could
Take back things
Turn it around
Undo the Big Bang

Fall in love again
...
Lose my mind
And then
...
Feel those feelings
Lost within

This weary worn
Down trodden soul
That's pulled me through
Those years ago
To lead me to
This body's end
I take not for granted
My dearest friend...
Traveler Tim
re to 04-17
695 · Jul 2017
DON"T TELL CNE'
Traveler Jul 2017
To say I've been
Compromised
Would be a
Judgment
Of morality
These are simply
Desires
Involving
Cyber
Infidelity

But how can I
Close my eyes
Move on
And just live
Now that I have fallen
For a Beautiful Poetess
Named Liz?
Traveler Tim
693 · Aug 2019
LOVE LETTERS
Traveler Aug 2019
The world gets in the way
But love wants to go home
I take you with me
Everywhere I roam!
...................................
Traveler Tim
693 · Aug 2013
MAGIC
Traveler Aug 2013
Was it ever real
The magic I used to feel
Tears fill my tired eyes
Perhaps magic was but a lie…

Music melts my fragile heart
But only to a hardened part
That place I use to hide
Until the storm would pass me by

I wish I’d never come to know
These realizations have laid me low

Ignorance is bliss – so alive in myths
Imagination is alive – don’t let it pass you by

If it were in my power
It would all be real
That is
All the magic I used to feel
Rained-on Traveler
693 · Dec 2019
Good Night Then
Traveler Dec 2019
I realize this may sound
Well. Somewhat unnatural

Can you at least
Allow me to watch you
Watching

How soon love
Gets forgotten
Okay
Then Shall I bid you
Good night my love
!
Traveler Tim
692 · Jun 2014
UNBREAKABLE CHAINS
Traveler Jun 2014
Our lives are on an endless journey
Bound for a mysterious cognitive end
Come and take this hand of abandon
I promise, I’ll never leave you again

Blown down are these walls of inflexibility
Dissolved in acceptance my life’s resent
Exposed by love these insecurities
Resolved to you my true intent…
692 · Oct 2018
WORD MAGIC
Traveler Oct 2018
Be more than scared
Be very, very afraid
There is truly great evil
Lurking astray
Darker than shadows
Creeping below
Don't become dismayed
Hold tight to your soul
Hide where you may
At the altar where you pray
If you truly believe
Than try to be brave
Simply close your eyes
Take a deep breath
Words shall protect you
Give us your best!
Traveler Tim
688 · Dec 2013
A POEM TO MY FIRST LOVE
Traveler Dec 2013
The stars shine so bright around you
That I can’t believe my eyes
I wrote this poem about you
You’re a DREAM that gets me high

Shivers shake my body
And my heart begins to fail
And I can’t wait any longer
For you my soul I’d sell

Stars cannot outshine you
Your love will never cease
Scaling life’s most rocky bluffs
It’s your nature to be free

Tears rule my existence
When I think how long and high
It takes to cross these mountains
That separate our lives
Yet truth is she's lost forever, all I have is a dream.
687 · May 2018
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
686 · Jun 2018
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
685 · Apr 2018
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
685 · Dec 2014
THE OTHER MINDSETS
Traveler Dec 2014
Am I a poet or a writer
Am I a wise man or a fool
The answer is all of the above
Yes it feels good to be popular
But what glory is there in hiding
The vastness of our other mindsets
I feel more than empathy
I feel pain, anger, resentment
I am happiness and sadness
Wrapped in one mind and so much more
My writings are different parts of who I am
My legacy of writings
Beautiful, messy, vague
****** up or strangely weird
As they seem
Are parts
Of the whole me
The real me...
I hope to inspire creativity
Are you trapped in a box?
Show us a piece of your mind
We haven't seen yet
684 · Feb 2019
PANICATTACTS
Traveler Feb 2019
Talked with my psychologist today
Come to find out
I am afraid of being sober!
I experience my emotions
Far too intensely
I begin to hyperventilate
White noises fills my head
Involuntary muscle spasms
Heart pounding in my chest
Deep breaths, meditation
Better yet medication
My empathy is an open wound
  Quiet! Concentrate on your legs......
TRAVELER TIM
683 · Feb 2015
JUST HOLD ON
Traveler Feb 2015
We weather the storms
Standing tall in the wind
Holding tight to our dreams
We break or we bend

Existing is simple
It's living that's hard
We collect life's lessons
And save them in jars

In the heaviness of hearts
We begin to fade
Losing parts of ourselves
Along the way

Still we stand tall
Holding as tight as we can
Somehow growing stronger
In the inevitable end...
Traveler Tim
Re to 02-18
683 · Jul 2018
NO NEED
Traveler Jul 2018
To tell me twice
When eye's have said enough
I've read between the unwinding lines
I've no need for less than love

The twitch, the look
Uneven flow
Rest assured
I already know

  And be sure
That they do too
The rest is up to you
Unto thine own self be true
....
Traveler Tim
683 · Jan 2016
EVOLUTION OF THE HEART
Traveler Jan 2016
Have you ever truly tried
To change your mind
Of all those ways
We're taught to think

Like how to measure human life
On a blueprint of love and hate
All those years of fairy tales
Invisible spirits tied to fate

Have you ever questioned
Your mother's sighs
Or your father's
Heated rage

How could we have navigated
Through the darkness
Of our youth
Freshly developed brains
Washed in vintage child abuse

But here and now
Is where it starts
The evolution of our hearts...
682 · Jan 2019
EXISTENTIALLY SPEAKING
Traveler Jan 2019
"All of us beings"
Believing we're free
Have We?
Could We?
Been tricked or deceived?

We boldly live our lives
And somehow we believe
That we understand the path
Upon this existential sea

But wisdom dictates different  
Nothing can last forever
Especially at this rate
Where nothings getting better
+
Traveler Tim
680 · Mar 2019
AFRAID NIGHT AND DAY
Traveler Mar 2019
I'm always afraid
I'm never sure why
I simply push my
Irrational fear's
Down deeper inside

Dreaded night
One eye open
Nightlight on
Shadows dancing
Into the dawn

But in the day
That's when I pray
All of this beauty
Please let me stay!
Traveler Tim

Death my greatest fear
I must really love
Life here!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5BJXwNeKsQ
678 · Jan 2019
(10 words) Beware
Traveler Jan 2019
Someone's been listening
Gathering our prints
Every single cyber glimpse
Traveler Tim
677 · Nov 2014
BEYOND RATIONALITY
Traveler Nov 2014
When I was but one
Trapped in this verse
Clinging to the lowly
In line with death's birth
For the many I did bleed
Never to be reverent for my deed
Such an empty sacrifice of vanity...

Possibilities  extend well beyond reason
Even magic cries out treason
The knowing knew yet could not prove
The feeling felt beyond itself
The dreamer dreamt in waking hours
Was not the heart the true source of power?
A conjured thought manifest
Such is god and nothing less...
Traveler Tim
re to 03-17
676 · Jun 2024
Games
Traveler Jun 2024
No one can keep up
with the evil deeds
done in our names.
Traveler 🧳 Tim
675 · Aug 2021
Dopamine Steers
Traveler Aug 2021
It’s not really clear
through smoke
and stale beer
the reason
we’re here is
‘cause
dopamine steers…
Traveler 🧳
675 · Nov 2019
LOST IN LIMBO
Traveler Nov 2019
To and fro I travel
Yet I find no place to rest
My heart is but a shadow
Darkness with a breath

Home is but a memory
As I lay upon hard ground
And dream of ancient glories
When I was once renowned

Now I am forgotten
Demonized by lore
Cast into a hell dimension
Just beyond life's door...
Traveler Tim
I wrote this laying on a hard mattress in the joint
with 17 year held over my head. I end up doing the whole 17.
672 · Mar 2017
SO STARTS THE DAY
Traveler Mar 2017
And so starts
The day over
Never stay clean
Never stay sober

This is the death
Of all those cares
Subconsciously
Remain unaware

The bottle has been
An old best friend
A handful of pills
And numbness sets in

Just like no love
Just like no friends
And so starts
The day
Over again
...
Traveler Tim
This Poem has no real meaning.
I don't drink or do pills, that much...(-;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_gvUjPxDuU

It is only an exercise in creativity
672 · Mar 2015
A GLIMPSE OF MY WORLD
Traveler Mar 2015
With a blank look in her eyes
She exist in our relationship
She moves without mind
As I bail out her sinking ship

A break from her stare
To ***** about cash
We have more than we need
Not counting her stash

Without a word
Without a plan
She dumps her cares
Where ever they land

With both our burdens
Upon my back
She's off to play
And that is that

So now you ask
What will I do
Afraid of change
I'll stay a fool...
672 · Mar 2018
THE CALMING 2
Traveler Mar 2018
Although right now
It seems quite calm
These waves of peace
Out on our lawns
Truth is, the violence
Defines our hearts
One thing in common
We share that mark
That fable of entitlement
He smote his brother
And off we went
....
Traveler Tim
672 · Mar 2018
SOUL TO TELL
Traveler Mar 2018
I’ve no need
To Rebel
Who is god
I can’t tell
The creator
Of time
The drawer
Of lines
The giver
The taker
Of hell?
A bit
Too much
For my soul
   To tell....
Traveler Tim
672 · May 2016
CRACKED
Traveler May 2016
And when they broke me
My heart never healed
My trust in society
Is what they killed
Life so easily wasted
By the lies
Of thugs and thieves
Another soul forsaken
   By your local Saint Police...
670 · Mar 2017
Perhaps
Traveler Mar 2017
We're Trapped
In this physical
Realm of existence
That's logically perceived

No cognitive conclusion
Nor magical delusion
Could ever break us free

So relax
Chances are
We're  just drifting
In eternal universes
On an endless sea
...
...
Traveler Tim
670 · Mar 2019
A REASON
Traveler Mar 2019
There exist a reason
I have to believe
Things are how
They're supposed to be
Pain and pleasure
Heaven and Hell
Doing just fine
But not that well
.....
Ups and downs
Backs and forth
Comings and goings
Returning
To Source
....
The trip of a lifetime
In an endless sea
Yes I do believe there's a reason
For you and for me!
Traveler Tim
669 · Jan 2018
ON A DOWN
Traveler Jan 2018
If I could only explain
What it is I feel
When the darkness consumes
My body and will
Tides of longing
Crash my shore
Haunting echos
Of love lost wars
Deeply ingrained
The shadows of time
I carry them with me
In riddles and rhymes
Letting them out
So I can breathe
Oh what stains
One life can leave
....
Traveler Tim
669 · Jul 2018
TAKE YOU HOME
Traveler Jul 2018
Part of me's
Been broken
Most of me
Still runs

I would give you
Heart and soul
To be your only one

No, you need not be lonely
On this desert road alone
Ask me what's for dinner
And I will take you home
....
Traveler Tim
668 · Feb 2019
UNIMPORTANT TRUTH
Traveler Feb 2019
If I could be
Simply myself
For just a moment
Or two....
Nothing fancy
Just what you can't see
Expose my ignorance to you

All my secrets open and known
Like...
God how I love to always stay ******!
All my laundry, there on the floor
    ***** dishes, no room for more......

Oh and sometimes I lie!
For insistence...
Nothing I wrote above
Is allowed in my life
I am obsessed with being clean
***** dishes? Laundry
I have two different machines

But I do love to smoke buds
After all, truth is
Writing ******
Is my love!!!
Traveler Tim
668 · Apr 2015
BRIMSTONE AND FIRE
Traveler Apr 2015
There remains no absolutes
In this object subjective world  
Except by dissolution
An occasional loophole
Into those "perhaps" conclusions

As the ceiling rises
On the new world poet's pen
Let our sight be open
To an existences
That hold no ends

But let us not
Carry it to far
With a mind set
Of brimstone and hell fire!
Traveler Tim
re to 08-17
667 · Nov 2020
Traveler’s Manifesto
Traveler Nov 2020
I don’t mean to shut lovers out
But
A forcefield of uncertainty surrounds me
As I expand with the expanding universe

As a force of creative energy
Forged and tempered in spirit fire
Bridged in eternal continuity
A Traveler must travel alone

There’s no place like home......
There’s no place like home.......
There’s no home...
Traveler Tim
667 · Dec 2018
ONLY THE NIGHT
Traveler Dec 2018
A Vampire's Journal

So calm the city night
That quickens
The heart of stone
An awakening
Of immoral desires
The day will not condone

These neon nights
Never seem to dull
A thirst for excitement
At an endless beggar's ball

The power of magic
The star-struck eyes
The crystal moon
So high in the sky

The illustrious fashions
Of the filthy rich
The seductive lure
Which drives my itch

Such smells and sights
Has only the night
As I turn to the shadows
And take to flight

Here I am sacred
Here I am whole
The night sets the stage
For my favorite role ...
Traveler Tim

From an unpublished book I wrote.
667 · Aug 2016
CASTLE OF THIEVES
Traveler Aug 2016
There remains no train to glory
The jackals have broken their cells
The zombies are in the mall now
The angels are cast unto hell

The brilliance of the wicked
Rule the castle of thieves
All the wars they can monger
All the innocent blood they can bleed

Corporate incentives form their new gods
The big money of freedom's speech
They locked the gates to the heavens
       And ignore the voice of the meek...
666 · Jun 2014
INFLUENCE OF KOSMOS
Traveler Jun 2014
To cast away them old anxieties
I stringently hold my course
Turning away from mystic deities
I only focus on the source

The spirit forms to fit
A reality that refuses to bend
And questions of our existence
Are blown by perpetual winds

Who can really say beyond a doubt
If we’re temporal or we’re permanent
No scientific experiment
Could ever positively determine it

And as we strive to understand
Just why the hell we’re here
We’re distracted by the cosmos
And the music of the spheres
I think I re PO
665 · Jan 2015
THE SCIENCE OF SPIRITUALITY
Traveler Jan 2015
The smallest part of existence
The atom
Is made up of subatomic particles
These particles
When observed, they seem to be moving
In an orderly fashion
Yet when humans try to measure
These particles
The pattern of their movement
Goes sporadic
Popping in and out of
The quantum barrier
An unknown dimension
A place immeasurable
By any scientific instrument

The act of the human mind intervening
Is the only variable
That explains this phenomenon

Everything that exists beyond
Creation/chance
Started from a thought
The imagination
And then was manifest into reality
i.e., cars, computers etc.

So if enough people intervene/pray for something
To come to pass
It more than likely will...
664 · Sep 2014
TRANSPARENT (DIAPHANOUS)
Traveler Sep 2014
This is that part of me
I’m not afraid to expose
A glimpse of my nakedness
A composition I compose

Freely I share regrettable mistakes
Lapse in judgment, errors in good taste
Just as you identify then quickly deny
These are such feelings you’d rather hide...

Creativity comes in darkness
As well as in light
Fear not the lack of morals
As the Poets take to flight...
RE-Po to Nov 29 2016
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