Peristaltic Poems | Examples


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Premium Member Confusion

Too many hours on line...... confusion!!!!!
Not sure if I  do need to upload, 
Perhaps I need to download hmmmmm????
Ah ha ! at last there's no confusion peristaltic movement in the colon 
Gotta run!!!! It's not an upload or a download, it's an offload

In the Abyss

In the abyss, so black and bleak, 
I’m swarmed with worry, worn and weak.
Peristaltic walls swallow prey:
A bolus in the bowel’s bay,
I am Jonah, humbled and meek.  
 
During the storm’s most starkest streak,
through sustained strife, I stand and seek
God’s deliverance … while I pray … 
… in the abyss.
 
Slivers of sunlight slowly leak
past my perils, letting me peak
at a rainbow's brightest archway!
God dwells in the places we stay,
even where blessings feel oblique
... in the abyss.  

E. V. Wyler

Premium Member Homeostasis

harmony, balance
peristaltic perception
defies all logic


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