Submissions by Ant1-Her0-Project (Travis)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
My full-length book "WAR PAINT - The ART of DISSENT" will be out later this year. It will include all of my visual art, poetry, prose, two sequential short stories, and a spoken word DVD.
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
19th Feb 2013 00:53am
19th Feb 2013 00:53am
Certain of Uncertainty
Copyright © 2013 Travis J Gibbs, The Ant1-Her0 Project
983 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
17th Feb 2013 11:00pm
17th Feb 2013 11:00pm
Weekend Revolutionary
Language is to throttle as a scholar is to bearing sin
Anguish in a bottle and my tolerance is wearing thin
God is dead; mom is missing, bobble-heads for politicians
Common sense apocalypse.. Coddle friends and con religion
Knowing it is treason.. Focus on the reason
For mindless consumerism; hold it, open this and breathe in..
....Next stop: Nova Scotia
Xbox, Coca-Cola; ownership is freedom
So, I'm going with this demon, lady; damn it, get your armor on!
"Let's revolt tomorrow, baby, Dancing With The Stars is on.."
Yeah.. Plus, I got work in...
Anguish in a bottle and my tolerance is wearing thin
God is dead; mom is missing, bobble-heads for politicians
Common sense apocalypse.. Coddle friends and con religion
Knowing it is treason.. Focus on the reason
For mindless consumerism; hold it, open this and breathe in..
....Next stop: Nova Scotia
Xbox, Coca-Cola; ownership is freedom
So, I'm going with this demon, lady; damn it, get your armor on!
"Let's revolt tomorrow, baby, Dancing With The Stars is on.."
Yeah.. Plus, I got work in...
716 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
17th Feb 2013 10:57pm
17th Feb 2013 10:57pm
Lost In Translation
My issue with religion exists in its limitation
In the divisive traits, and sit-ins with litigation
A grim manipulation and scripture assimilation
That's fitted to a decision with criminal implication..
Why can't I say that in English?
I'll keep carrying blame until the flames are extinguished
Still trying to translate a visual language
While dying to stand straight with minimal anguish
And I feel like I'm failing.. I get so angry
That I can't even think straight, and feel it derailing..
Paling in comparison, America's ailing
Daily, it's...
In the divisive traits, and sit-ins with litigation
A grim manipulation and scripture assimilation
That's fitted to a decision with criminal implication..
Why can't I say that in English?
I'll keep carrying blame until the flames are extinguished
Still trying to translate a visual language
While dying to stand straight with minimal anguish
And I feel like I'm failing.. I get so angry
That I can't even think straight, and feel it derailing..
Paling in comparison, America's ailing
Daily, it's...
972 reads
5 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
24th Jan 2013 10:20am
24th Jan 2013 10:20am
Cancer
Cancer
For better or for worse, we're forever to reverse
Don't shoot the messenger for lessening your worth
When colluding with these creditors and senators since birth..
Practically.. Actually, imbedded in this Earth
Is our mastery of tragedy, the apathy we've earned..
We practice a feigned indifference, maintaining a sickness
The frame rate has a glitch, and we're placating the witnesses
Same way we save face maintaining a business..
I'm an American, and still don't know what the dream is..
A war-like people.. Standing fast...
For better or for worse, we're forever to reverse
Don't shoot the messenger for lessening your worth
When colluding with these creditors and senators since birth..
Practically.. Actually, imbedded in this Earth
Is our mastery of tragedy, the apathy we've earned..
We practice a feigned indifference, maintaining a sickness
The frame rate has a glitch, and we're placating the witnesses
Same way we save face maintaining a business..
I'm an American, and still don't know what the dream is..
A war-like people.. Standing fast...
1024 reads
8 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
17th Jan 2013 3:59am
17th Jan 2013 3:59am
Bleeding Demons
Bleeding Demons
Hell's sinking.. Swallowed Envy, they're reeling in self-pity
And I really hope this hollow, empty feeling is quelled swiftly
'Cause that's not my heart beating, believe me.. It's a distress signal
Got a large demon to feed and we could be less vigil..
Hear it howl as the sun starts to fall
You should fear the nearest town for the blood marks us all..
Nation of zombies, ungodly and hateful..
You take it; it's not me, but oddly I'm grateful
For the pain that you've caused me.. And all that it may bring
It's true,...
Hell's sinking.. Swallowed Envy, they're reeling in self-pity
And I really hope this hollow, empty feeling is quelled swiftly
'Cause that's not my heart beating, believe me.. It's a distress signal
Got a large demon to feed and we could be less vigil..
Hear it howl as the sun starts to fall
You should fear the nearest town for the blood marks us all..
Nation of zombies, ungodly and hateful..
You take it; it's not me, but oddly I'm grateful
For the pain that you've caused me.. And all that it may bring
It's true,...
1185 reads
9 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
12th Jan 2013 2:11am
12th Jan 2013 2:11am
Ordinary Joe
Ordinary Joe:
The Fully-Posable Corporate Yes-man
A fear of success, always, far more than rejection
A star's born, bound to fall; doubt forward-direction
Start pouring the alcohol, ground-floor his ascension..
Hope you know his cul-de-sac, 'cause I relate to hate within
I sold my soul and stole it back, then I escaped the gates again
If this is Hell on Earth.. Talk of gated communities
Items that sell as birth, then walks and ages so beautifully
It's Ordinary Joe.. Sort of wary though
So he killed his social network status, 'mortuary flow'...
The Fully-Posable Corporate Yes-man
A fear of success, always, far more than rejection
A star's born, bound to fall; doubt forward-direction
Start pouring the alcohol, ground-floor his ascension..
Hope you know his cul-de-sac, 'cause I relate to hate within
I sold my soul and stole it back, then I escaped the gates again
If this is Hell on Earth.. Talk of gated communities
Items that sell as birth, then walks and ages so beautifully
It's Ordinary Joe.. Sort of wary though
So he killed his social network status, 'mortuary flow'...
839 reads
6 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
9th Jan 2013 8:21pm
9th Jan 2013 8:21pm
Self-Loathing Narcissist
Self-Loathing Narcissist
Walk a thin line between narcissism and self-destruction
What can I say..? That part-afflicted is well-constructed
Hard to fix it.. My heart is distant and disconnected
Starving art insisted a partial image had been reflected
Pieces to a puzzle.. I don't know where to go from here
We're sleepless in a struggle, where no one's over their hope or fear
It's grounds for obsession.. Hear a stomach growling?
That's the sound of recession with countless rounds of aggression..
In and out of bounds now with bouts of depression ...
Walk a thin line between narcissism and self-destruction
What can I say..? That part-afflicted is well-constructed
Hard to fix it.. My heart is distant and disconnected
Starving art insisted a partial image had been reflected
Pieces to a puzzle.. I don't know where to go from here
We're sleepless in a struggle, where no one's over their hope or fear
It's grounds for obsession.. Hear a stomach growling?
That's the sound of recession with countless rounds of aggression..
In and out of bounds now with bouts of depression ...
855 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
6th Jan 2013 8:51am
6th Jan 2013 8:51am
The Nail That Split The Hammer
The Nail That Split The Hammer
I'll decipher the new apocalypse, if worth it to bear
Like the cycle of human consciousness, and birth of despair
I'll search for what's uncertain.. Work on what's there
'Cause what hurts another person, ain't concern for what's fair..
There's no truth here.. Only perspective
And the hopes for the new year are slowly neglected..
Lonely, rejected; evolution of open godlessness
Happy New Years, resolutions and broken promises..
Black cloud, cast-down; city teeming with hopelessness
I am it's weathered soul, showing...
I'll decipher the new apocalypse, if worth it to bear
Like the cycle of human consciousness, and birth of despair
I'll search for what's uncertain.. Work on what's there
'Cause what hurts another person, ain't concern for what's fair..
There's no truth here.. Only perspective
And the hopes for the new year are slowly neglected..
Lonely, rejected; evolution of open godlessness
Happy New Years, resolutions and broken promises..
Black cloud, cast-down; city teeming with hopelessness
I am it's weathered soul, showing...
875 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
6th Jan 2013 8:49am
6th Jan 2013 8:49am
Duality
Duality
Socialists.. Capitalists, motionless activists
Change clothes, go back totin' explosive packages
Case closed, closed casket, no exposin' these savages
He acted alone.. Need I say CIA's trashin' your home?
They're tappin' phones; "See why they were pacifists?" ..No
Recipe for peace with an appetite for destruction
How can we draw the line between sacrifice and consumption?..
Weapons-free for centuries, passionate strife or nothin'
Let that be their legacy, afterlife is assumption
I've got something better planned.. Some could never...
Socialists.. Capitalists, motionless activists
Change clothes, go back totin' explosive packages
Case closed, closed casket, no exposin' these savages
He acted alone.. Need I say CIA's trashin' your home?
They're tappin' phones; "See why they were pacifists?" ..No
Recipe for peace with an appetite for destruction
How can we draw the line between sacrifice and consumption?..
Weapons-free for centuries, passionate strife or nothin'
Let that be their legacy, afterlife is assumption
I've got something better planned.. Some could never...
712 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
5th Jan 2013 8:59pm
5th Jan 2013 8:59pm
At Arm's Length
At Arm's Length
The walls are closing in.. The water-line is rising up
The ceiling's getting lower now, and time, it flies and dies with us
The winds will grow colder.. Shoulder the burden
As these kids grow older, know these soldiers are virgins..
The children of men, who had nothing to live for
Just a past love, but that's something to sin for
That's not enough, this vast dungeon'll give more..
I need the pain and chains and things to rearrange this reign of kings
Hundreds run ragged; what'd dad punish the kids for..?
Your father's an angry god.....
The walls are closing in.. The water-line is rising up
The ceiling's getting lower now, and time, it flies and dies with us
The winds will grow colder.. Shoulder the burden
As these kids grow older, know these soldiers are virgins..
The children of men, who had nothing to live for
Just a past love, but that's something to sin for
That's not enough, this vast dungeon'll give more..
I need the pain and chains and things to rearrange this reign of kings
Hundreds run ragged; what'd dad punish the kids for..?
Your father's an angry god.....
1608 reads
15 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
5th Jan 2013 8:51pm
5th Jan 2013 8:51pm
The Road
A looseleaf of loose ends, tethering poems
A few reasons you left together alone
And whether I've grown depends on the evidence shown
Or the reverence of better friends who'd set it in stone..
Old flames and venomous thoughts
Cold veins and treacherous loss
Envious of the emptiness, growth-pained reckoner scoffs..
No shame, no blame, so strange the texture is off..
I don't feel the same anymore..
Claim denial, threatening violence
Hollow and vile, heckling tyrant
Feign a smile for deafening silence
Followed for miles by...
A few reasons you left together alone
And whether I've grown depends on the evidence shown
Or the reverence of better friends who'd set it in stone..
Old flames and venomous thoughts
Cold veins and treacherous loss
Envious of the emptiness, growth-pained reckoner scoffs..
No shame, no blame, so strange the texture is off..
I don't feel the same anymore..
Claim denial, threatening violence
Hollow and vile, heckling tyrant
Feign a smile for deafening silence
Followed for miles by...
1381 reads
9 Comments
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