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Time Traveller

Welcoming geniuses and madmen to the crazy glass towers Watching titans through a misted lens Seeing only tomorrow on yesterday's today Turning people into numbers Fighting through the past Running blindly through the present Fixated, on a desolate destiny -Note- Although I haven't posted in a while, I felt compelled to pen this 10-minute piece to express myself and get some crazy thoughts out of my mind.

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Caren Krutsinger

Date: 9/6/2019 4:47:00 AM

I feel like I have landed into the land of a genius, poetic mad-man!

Michael Whatley
Date: 9/7/2019 6:05:00 PM

Awh, Caren, thank you so much for your kind words!

Besma Riabi Dziri

Date: 9/5/2019 5:14:00 PM

Only Artists are beautifully empowered to travel and feel time as their soaring imagination would allow them! You made your flight possible, Michael, time traveler! So wonderful and profound! Greatly enjoyed and appreciated.. Regards and blessings.

Michael Whatley
Date: 9/7/2019 6:10:00 PM

Soaring is an excellent word to describe the unbounded magical energy that is imagination. Much appreciated, Besma, thank you for visiting and getting me thinking!

Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 8/28/2019 4:50:00 AM

I feel some of our great inventions have come from visitors from our future. I like this poem very much. : )

Michael Whatley
Date: 8/28/2019 5:25:00 AM

Thanks Connie! It's all in our perception when it comes to the near unfathomable passage of time.

Laura Breidenthal

Date: 8/19/2016 8:49:00 PM

Awesome job, Michael. Thank you also for the sweet comment on my poem the other day. Means a lot. That last line is immensely stark, but I love the poem, particularly the line, "Watching titans through a misted lens" Excellent work..keep it up. Always, Laura

Michael Whatley
Date: 8/20/2016 11:18:00 AM

My pleasure Laura, and thank you very much for stopping by!

Michael Whatley
Date: 8/20/2016 11:06:00 AM

My pleasure Laura, and thank you very much for stopping by!

The Grahamburglar

Date: 8/19/2016 8:36:00 PM

My thoughts wander into the strangeness of time sometimes as well. I think there's an interesting contrast between the immutable nature of the past and the infinite possibilities of the future, and in every moment, we are sandwiched right between the two. It's a strange thing, time. Thanks for posting your thoughts for the rest of us to muse over. For that, I'm giving it a 7. -G

Michael Whatley
Date: 8/20/2016 11:02:00 AM

Right on the money, Grahamburglar - time is indeed a strange thing. Many thanks for stopping by!