Best Pulse Poems

In my chambers where phantasmagoria undulate
    not as vigilant watchers but as mnemonic parasites
    I ruminate—
        no longer a singular entity but a disjointed duality
       ...

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I am the heart of our love
built for the beauty of your dance
I feel you in every atom of my awareness,
a muscle of desire pumping to caress your luscious madness
without the current of your fresh fragrance I have no romance, only sadness,
my strength suffers without...

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One moist patch, like dewy grass,
surrounded by a field of weeds,
emerges first and breathes at last, 
through openings, the air it needs.
Cut off from, and cut off of;
counting on, and counting in;
from down below, to up above - 
A smack on tender, crimson skin.
	There is...

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This sunset of peach crowns the bay, aglow
While Manila lies in tropical bliss 
This region bustling with tunes as nights flow  
Along street cafes  where friends reminisce.

The jam of guitars floods a moonlit trail
Dizzy where tangy hyacinths delight…
Folks  prancing on rhumba beats...

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Here in this wrecked house
passion's corrupted
and there’s molded love
in the cracks of the threshold...
tragic are the echoes within.

The air is infected with the stench
of rotting hope...rotting dreams...
Scents suffocate and I am apt to scream...
but the silence is just too loud...
time is stressing with its second...

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In the middle
In the midst
Of this bureaucratic 
Heart
Pumping 
Paper
Ideas
The pulse 
Of this great nation
In the middle
In the midst
Of me...

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                                          its glorious magi
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pulse of 
buddhist
enlightenment



posted on August 31, 2018...

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WHEN NERVES AND PULSE CONGEST

Tender are the days brushed with thoughts of light
when yesterday rolling, rolling are the tears...
Jagged nerves and pulse congest in colliding repair,
they... rise to roar beams and rays of medley grace.
Glitters of gold and red cartwheel slow on my face,
I, before...

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one's life is to be dominated
by love, and compassion, even 
toward one's enemies...

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The pulse
Rises fast and
Goes suddenly awry
Feeling your heart stops suddenly
The beat










For The One Who Survives
Sponsored by Sara Kendrick
Fifth Place
2-5-2016...

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With your every step
Water is getting wrinkled
Cricket is singing...

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Cadence

Nature dances in the cadence of grace
In hypnotic snows descending
Or raindrops steady patter
In symphonies of metered tides
That match the rhythmic heartbeat
Drawing spindrift of the heart into fusion.

Grace never slumbers in hibernation,
Nor does the pulse of consecrated mercy sleep
Abiding in the orbit of the seasons
Harmonic vibrations...

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** Neither Silent Nor Still **

With you…by you…in you
Lord,
I never found silence
To be stillness.

With you, silence is
  elevating, escalating,
Eternally
An ongoing current — a soundless ocean
With an unending 
   Roll-over of crested waves,
But silent  with the pulse of my soul.

In silence I...

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Excerpts from "Cordoba"
by Allama Iqbal
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch



Withered Roses
by Allama Iqbal
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

What shall I call you,
but the nightingale's desire?

The morning breeze was your nativity,
an afternoon garden, your sepulchre.

My tears welled up like dew,
till in my abandoned heart your rune...

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