Diastolic Poems

Premium MemberWater

...p u l s e s

      diastolic   
                  systolic   
                             tides     

           e  l  a  s   t   i  c

edge of ebb  where water and salt an...
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Categories: diastolic, joy, loss, nostalgia, sea,
Form: Free verse

Castle Breach

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Around this precious pulse
there is a moat
It has a raised drawbridge
of desires denied — 
Wouldn’t emotions,
they be crave carved from the
mahogany variety
Splintered thoughts lowers...
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Categories: diastolic, allusion, loneliness, metaphor, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue


Stillness of Emotion

...Quasar pulse time moves 
at the pause ratio of 
radioactive query change

A long anticipated moment of attraction
did quicky supernova boom, 
then it slowly did mushroom
into repellant ...
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Categories: diastolic, heartbreak, imagery, science, symbolism,
Form: Romanticism

Premium MemberOn Resilient Health

...I am reading my Resilience Systems Manual,
avidly,
like an underfed developer
hoping to strike gold
while laying healthy habitat foundations.

Today I see Community Resilience mention
Tipping ...
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Categories: diastolic, environment, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberMinds Coarising Hearts

...In our Physics Departments
our most salient awareness
grows
of those nature-spirit entities
most easily seen
and heard
and smelled
as animated and animating,
sometimes more,
sometimes less,
...
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Categories: diastolic, art, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Prose Poetry


Premium MemberColumbian Uncivil Allegiances

...It was a nasty war.

To call it an UnCivil War
is to avoid an obvious oxymoron
as embarrassing as Military Vitriolic Intelligence
through lack of Anger and Fear Management,
violently over-indus...
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Categories: diastolic, columbus day, culture, health,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberTao of System Balance

...If Yang's powers are efficiency of outcomes,
whether positive or negative,
regeneratively sustainable
or strained out toward dissonant chaos
of runaway monopolistic monoculturalism,
which I beli...
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Categories: diastolic, culture, health, humanity, humor,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberCloud of Knowing

...I believe it was Buckminster Fuller
who first posited
a prime appositional,
like Yang and Yin,
but his was:
Energy is to physical nature
as Information is to metaphysically languaged systems.
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Categories: diastolic, health, humor, language, leadership,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberTheories of Every Big and Little Thing

...Key CapitalistYang/CreolistYin EcoHistoric Concepts

I find a fuzzy irony in this morning’s early search for a new journal notebook, having filled my last from what had been, five years ago, an inc...
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Categories: diastolic, culture, earth, health, history,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberListening For Firestorms

...Always respect this combination of fire and wind,
she tentatively said,
after having listened for healthy and pathological winds
regenerating and degenerating,
investing in and divesting of,
yea...
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Categories: diastolic, absence, blessing, happiness, health,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberJust Doin' My Translation Job

...It's all frustratingly LeftBrain relativistic,
even nihilistic in its darker 
ruminating 
paranoid about chaotic outcomes form,
said Einstein's post-millennial ghost.

So its all synergetic fra...
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Categories: diastolic, creation, health, humor, love,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberPermaculturing Taoist Ecologic

...Imagine with me
a bicameral NatureGod named PositiveYang
dipolar twinned with SpiritGaia named NotNot Yang,
or WinWin, for reverse dualdark YinSquared shortness 
of ecologically balancing Time.
...
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Categories: diastolic, health, nature, political, psychological,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberMessages For Regenerating Time

...This revolutionary message
is brought to you by
the 
TransMillennial EarthTribe CoOperative,
your international ecopolitical sponsor,
speciating Earth's New PostMillennially Silent EcoLogical Ma...
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Categories: diastolic, culture, health, humor, political,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberBlade of Grass

...Front porch consciousness of organically rich freedom,
relief from language label boxes,
reifying,
static,
now giving way toward emerging diastolic flow,
abundance fills a fertile inside view of...
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Categories: diastolic, blessing, culture, freedom, happiness,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberSurrender Or Die

...A miasma of memories… nights in solitude
Spiraling perdition… shadows intrude
Underlying trepidation… behind vacant eyes
A journey interrupted… by pathetic lies

Abysmal human flaw… egregiously ...
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Categories: diastolic, addiction, angst, bereavement, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

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