Diastole Poems | Examples


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Premium Member Nymph From Exodus

Are we less superior to ourselves than realization?
Our temporary shell, our salt, our generation.
Our streamers flutter like snow in Antarctica.
longing and valid expansion, made of mica.

Striving to liberate us, it rips apart its body.
Once again, envisaging us embody.
Systole, diastole, adventure indiscriminately.
The wide open oozes a scent of love imminently.

Shimmering between each of the drumbeats.
Summer, you are the windlessness of such feats.
We ate, kissed, cuddled, and then supped food.
A day's total is a unit of measure for what you lewd.

Need and desire exist in an interdependent reality.
We bury our bodies as a sign of our mortality.
The fate of our remains while wearing the shell
The land utters us the title of a spare body smell.

Synapses are memories, and we are waiting.
In order to cross its boundary, there is no gating.

Written: August 09, 2022

Premium Member Equinity

Running wild propelled by echoes of thunderous hooves clip clopping rhyme

A troop of stallions gallop in assonance over fields of pasture in adnomination

Display streams of collective unconsciousness un-trapped by stirrups and reigns

Apposition knows no boundaries when pairing takes part in euphonic neighing


Here in Nirvana they need neither hyperbole nor euphemism to cover lost ground

Para-diastole does not exist in equine paradise as syncope and solecism canter

Karma has no boundaries and parrhesia has lost the shadows of juxtaposed isms

Unsaddled from the weight of the whip the horizon bears no limit for freedom


The herd adheres not to the pathetic fallacy of tamed nature riding roughshod

Over rhetorical questions or self-styled syllepsis of spurs spurned on by clatter

When I look at the feast of mares and fillies following instinct and pure inclination

My path finds their spoor on track to a promised land of inhibition and pleasure



29th March 2020

Love Poem

Every day and night I look up to the sky,
Always wondering why
It couldn’t always be you and I-
Sure it may seem frivolous to feel so deeply connected
To someone who’s not on this planet
Someone who has left what feels like long ago-
4 years later and I lament
Screaming “I love you” to the sky
My heart is bleeding – why?
A part of me lost forever, or are you still around?
My heart gets heavy when I say your name-
Yet I smile- a constant game
my head fights my heart
memories verse reality-
What I would do to restart-
Cherishing every moment, good, bad 
Letting my heart succumb to diastole


Premium Member Diastole

Even at the point of  relaxation, 
there is pressure.
Even when my thoughts wander,
my heart remains with you.

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