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Traver DiDiminico

So many people I know are trying to find their place.
I have just been put in mine.
I prefer to keep looking.
Strike that. I disagree.
My place is where I am.
My place is who I am.
My place is what I choose.
My place is fluid.
Fuck You.
You lack the credentials.

Ali

Tell em where they stand Traver:)Nice creation:)

decides2dream

Traver DiDiminico wrote:

So many people I know are trying to find their place.
I have just been put in mine.
I prefer to keep looking.
Strike that. I disagree.
My place is where I am.
My place is who I am.
My place is what I choose.
My place is fluid.
Fuck You.
You lack the credentials.

i think i am adopting this as my personal mantra. hope you don't mind.
quite well said.
thanks for that.

eden

Traver DiDiminico wrote:

So many people I know are trying to find their place.
I have just been put in mine.
I prefer to keep looking.
Strike that. I disagree.
My place is where I am.
My place is who I am.
My place is what I choose.
My place is fluid.
Fuck You.
You lack the credentials.

I wanna be a fighter like your poem when people try to put me in the place "they" want me to be in.

grooveamatic

***applauds***

Traver DiDiminico

decides2dream wrote:

i think i am adopting this as my personal mantra. hope you don't mind.
quite well said.
thanks for that.

Mantra away...just don't beat anybody up while you're meditating

ISN

you know, Travers, as I always get so personal into these peoms.....can you believe I took this personally, and got upset with the antagonism.....I felt like saying 'hey who does have the credentials....?' hehehehehe.....I'm such a dork!!!!

Traver DiDiminico

ISN wrote:

you know, Travers, as I always get so personal into these peoms.....can you believe I took this personally, and got upset with the antagonism.....I felt like saying 'hey who does have the credentials....?' hehehehehe.....I'm such a dork!!!!

Then I'd say I've done my job!

ISN

thanks a lot!!!!! hehehehehehe

(you're right - I reckon the peoms I take personally are the best ones )

Traver DiDiminico

The Indifferent One wrote:

Didn't think much...personal level...power!

"Strike that. I disagree." OOf.

To me, "Strike that..." is the turning point of the poem; it's like Popeye eating spinach--now I'm mad. I'm glad you picked up on that. I was worried that that line was too dependant on emphasis as read out loud.

Traver DiDiminico

The Indifferent One wrote:

I couldn't put my finger on why it stood out so much to me. But I think that's it, what you just said. The start of the power, complete swing around of moods and attitude.

Hell F****** yeah!!

ISN

hey, you're one hot dude.....you're angry like Jimmy Dean......you're boiling and ya ain't what ya seem.....I like your anger.....I love those dark emotions....they jus are so ya know.....real......hehehehehehehehe

or maybe they're jus masculine.......rage.....how attractive.....who wants a nice guy......no gril that I know......even my sister Erin, turned down this guy cos he was too nice......am I getting the bug again......for those dark guys?......anyway......I want rage and anger and lack of control.......I want fights........anger is great!!!!!

Traver DiDiminico

ISN wrote:

hey, you're one hot dude.....you're angry like Jimmy Dean......you're boiling and ya ain't what ya seem.....I like your anger.....I love those dark emotions....they jus are so ya know.....real......hehehehehehehehe

or maybe they're jus masculine.......rage.....how attractive.....who wants a nice guy......no gril that I know......even my sister Erin, turned down this guy cos he was too nice......am I getting the bug again......for those dark guys?......anyway......I want rage and anger and lack of control.......I want fights........anger is great!!!!!

ok, now you're turning me on.

ISN

heheheheheeh.......anger = sexy

kiss me....hit me.....
kiss me hit me.....
kissmehitme.....

Traver DiDiminico

ISN wrote:

heheheheheeh.......anger = sexy

kiss me....hit me.....
kiss me hit me.....
kissmehitme.....

geh...guh...uh, ah!!!

Whooo!

ISN

punchdrunklove......

write me a poem.....about anger

I jus like dark guys......ya know the ones that can't figure stuff out.....and get a bit mad....(hheheheheh......you know what I'm talking about)

but mostly I like intelligent guys with a lot of emotions which confuse them.....etc

violet ray

i always wonder why so many of us, me included, allow others to (try to) put us in our place, allow others to make us feel a certain way...usually not a good way.

i'm looking for my power now, its getting here...slowly but surely. the biggest power and the hardest one to come by (for me) is WILL power. i feel like i'm in training. but that's ok...always good to learn something new. and i'm learning other things while i'm at it too. and its keeping my mind focused. the things you can learn to do with a focused mind...woooo.

it wasn't the change i expected for this year, but its not a bad one.

why do i ramble in the mornings.

anyway...i'm borrowing your *mantra* as well.
thank you.

Traver DiDiminico

ISN wrote:

punchdrunklove......

write me a poem.....about anger

I jus like dark guys......ya know the ones that can't figure stuff out.....and get a bit mad....(hheheheheh......you know what I'm talking about)

but mostly I like intelligent guys with a lot of emotions which confuse them.....etc

(keep in mind I just wrote this on the spot) This is about yesterday's anger:

I cried last night
And I don't know why
I smiled last night
While the sun didn't shine
I reached out last night
And I flailed about
I dove deep last night
And my soul popped out

ISN

we are all human beings
we have small weaknesses
and great qualities
we are striving to reach each other
and to come together
and we really do connect so many times
in small acts and petty crimes
and in prose, music, art and rhymes
why should we not love
ourselves
we are all we have
we teach each other lessons
and our tendrils are so long
I wonder what it takes for me
to feel like I belong

Traver DiDiminico

ISN wrote:

we are striving to reach each other
and to come together
and we really do connect so many times
in small acts and petty crimes
and in prose, music, art and rhymes

Brrr...(that's the shiver down my spine)

ISN

I cried last night
And I don't know why
I smiled last night
While the sun didn't shine
I reached out last night
And I flailed about
I dove deep last night
And my soul popped out

and my soul popped out.....I jus wonder where my soul is? I try to protect it.....but ya know......I'm better when my soul is naked......ya know.....jus like.....I can't hide who I am......I need to remember that a lot of people hide who they are.....and I love that!!!

Traver DiDiminico

ISN wrote:

and my soul popped out.....I jus wonder where my soul is? I try to protect it.....but ya know......I'm better when my soul is naked......ya know.....jus like.....I can't hide who I am......I need to remember that a lot of people hide who they are.....and I love that!!!

'Tis my only hope--
This paper and pen--
to get across
where my soul has been

ISN

love fest now!!!!!

Traver DiDiminico

This is a older poem of mine, but I think it fits nicely with the current theme. It's called "It's Snowing Tuesday Night".

Tingle, Tingle, Tingle-
my brain with my soul begins to mingle.
Inside the movie begins to play,
but outside I wait-
it's here I want to stay.
Perhaps I'll just peek inside and listen, though,
or catch a glimpse-
a preview of what's in stowe.
And it is that which I desperately try to reveal:
the very thing that most try to conceal.
But my failures-
each more grandiose than the last-
commit me further and further
into their grasp.
Until soon I will be no more than a whisper:
a sad, old, delusional mister.
But always I remember the glimpses I am given
and the glorious revelation
that wells up from within.
I shiver a shiver not made of cold,
but from a touch so many centuries old.
And I felt as though I would explode!
And I felt as though I would explode!

ISN

if you exploded, would you be happy....? do you have a death wish? do you want to burst into universal oneness.....and all that buddhist shit? do you want to be happy.....when you explode.....I totally understand that feeling......for me it's all superficial.....it's all about being in love with life......and wanting to implode......to be my own terrorist suicide bomber.....on a mission from God, and to blow myself up from happiness.....!!!! I love kicking people when they're down.....and kissing them, and giving them a hand up......and being understanding and wanting to know everything about people......even though I'm paranoid.....and I think they know everything about me......I guess you could say I'm happy......and want to get into a good 'fight' with a guy.....ya know the kind where you're naked and throwing stuff at each other.......heheheheheheh