Short Pulsed Poems

Red tore down footpath
heartbeat pulsed, steady and strong
wisp of radiance 

10/10/2017

Poetry Contest: Halloween Senryu 
Sponsored by: Laura Loo  
How Many Syllables 5 7 5...

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young moment spills 
 of fragrant wisp
  imbuing new romps
 that oh I taste
 freedom again...
   pulsed, enticed
by August's play--
a cycle in pure heat
lusting after joy, passion
in kiln of night's rapture 

POTD award...

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The stones' first voice was weapon.
Today, that voice spoke again,
wailed its sorrow against the wind,
pulsed and swirled inside my ears.

Today's stone pushed its face 
forward; shoved others aside, 
its anger swelling as it cried,
Why? in mournful requiem....

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One must feel a word
if to know. Taste its
flavor while caressing
the contour of each
winding curve -- we
hear with our hearts
as well as our ears;
sniff with our breathful
blood pulsed through 
veins -- 

we are sentient beings,

spirit our balance and
saving grace.......

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I brushed her hand in movie light—
Her fingers opened, clutching tight;
My heart soared high ‘til end of show,
I pulsed with joy, so long ago …

I roused this dawn and touched that hand,
Discerned its convex wedding band
And, as blush sunbeams ended night,
I warmed once more with love’s delight....

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Honeymoon

Till death
us  do
depart
We vowed

Husband
new wife 
first night 
cold door
closed shut

Witching
hour pulsed
he changed

Black eye
broken 
sore ribs 
bruises

Till death
us  do
depart
one’s say


12/6/2016

DUPLEX - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: JAN ALLISON...

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bleeding blushes ooze
damping dessicated drool
punctured passion puke
nauseating nocturnal nude
felon feelings fostered
gaunt gazes murdered

fiery smirk smote
undaunted gift grown
on fervent flow

salient soil pulsed
leering lanky lust
foaming feelings gulped

on vying Valentine
gaunt gazes dine.
      '20:02:14:14:52...

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Just like that, the wind lost its breath; 
the natural vibrato of the ocean's waves became an elegy, 
and only the light from midnight stars pulsed 
as your heart slipped away.

In the century of quiet, that filled the empty moment, 
"They understood that wisdom comes of beggary."







from "The Seven Sages" by W.B. Yeats...

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The smile on your face
   lit a fire in my heart
Up above the sun came out
   The clouds they did part

The bounce in your step
   set my two feet in motion
The waves fairly danced
   as they flowed o'er the ocean

The song on your lips
   touched the strings of my soul
Passion pulsed through our veins
   as Love took control...

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Quick and slow, pulsed to jibe and rudder
Late dancing in the luminous waves
The boats angle the cresting froth tops

Sails arched, full burst in the briny
Air paces vastly to horizon’s rim
The hazing glow of sky to sea

They bob and streak, the prows steadfastness
Each sailor guides to the compass, knowing
The importance of destination...

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tactic torrents tuned
punctured pills puked
hoisted horizon hanker
tuning tiers trigger
felon fiends whooshed
wanky wind booed

bounty bills bruised
lofty lists cruised
dark drips drooled

sour syllables glazed
with wet waste
gaunt gores graced

porous pasts pulsed
vying gifts gulped.
     '20:03:11:15:06

Note: Dedicated to William Blake....

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on every corner there is a red thing
depleted and draining away
growing pinker and pinker
trickling and fading
depleted, and now
completed

there is no effort
no fuss
just a weary soft trickle
this is no
flooding gush

just a soft soft trickle
the faint bleed of a heart
that had once pulsed a ruby
that had once been, so lush

Marion Price 18/7/21...

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fiery tongue trained
in felon flame
seeped'n squashing syllables
puked by bundles
nocturnal nimble knitted
at hoisted hankering

pulpy passion pulsed
dripping dark some
gaunt gifts gulped

like whooshing waves
taunted torrent braced
terror to rain

soon, nature sang
porous politic's prank.
'20:03:01:09:43

Note: Dedicated to Olusegun Olufela Kuti....

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A songbird serenaded trilling so sweet.
It resonated thru my soul.
I pulsed to the beat.
Sitting by the pond a frog greeted me.
I croaked back at him serendipitously.
I came across a dog whose tail was wagging.
I bent over to greet him, my body gently sagging.
I discovered a snake concealed in the mist.
I stood quietly in place and let him hiss, hiss, hiss.....

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hoisted hanker bruised
vying voluptuous view
eerie oddities oozed
fostering felon fluid
porous pills punctured
sassy seals structured

mental horizon melted
gnawing gaunt glued
hefty heels drooled

pulpy peers pulsed
gnashing gifts gulped
callous crest cupped

gullible Greek bled
etched acumen ebbed.
      '20:03:16:14:54

Note: Dedicated to Virgil....

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I had a heart, 
that now has gone from me
Into a world,
and across a sea.

A newborn heart,
who slept upon my breast
As unpracticed breath
pulsed his tiny chest

I had a heart which,
too briefly I called mine
And now am left heart-begging:
Please, Mnemosyne!

I had a father’s heart,
that filled to see him so
And stopped, and burst, and died
to see him go....

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Kneeling, head bowed, the old

          Knight remained still, though his

Knobby and enfeebled

                    Knees pulsed with pain, his worn

Knuckles ached, bloodied and

          Knurled ... honored now, nigh his

KING ... he would ... not ... falter.




* FIRST PLACE in the "Pleiades K" Poetry Contest, Kim Merryman, Sponsor. *...

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lout tout clout
pout mouth shout
draped zeal drooled
pruning punctured pool
hoity hankers hoisted
callous crescendos clothed

eerie passion pulsed
gaunt gifts gulped
tempestuous tongue touched

mystic rhythm moaning
busted, blitzkrieg cloning
muffled maladies glowing

dark dribbles damped
taunted thrills trashed.
    '20:03:27:17:09

Note: Dedicated to Adeyemi Joshua....

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cosmic energy in the air
village of the ruined temples
we are here
calm and serene

green leaves dance in the 
mystic air pressureless
brown soil spread into
the edge of the big river

pulsed electro magnetic field
throbbing in the atmosphere
alternative current he is bursting
into a spontaneous sincere
self mocking laugh

un paved roads of wisdom
night is still cats are napping
cattle open their innocent love
dogs are like meditative monks here...

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Clicks, whistles and pulsed calls
coming from whales you can't see 
Within the compounds, no walls 
only ocean water and Captain Lee 

Sonograms and ultrasounds, its a joy  
when whale voices are heard ! 
Binoculars views, soon they deploy 
leviathans swim without a word 

The echo returns not for they do run free  
always returning to their  summer grounds     
Into the womb of the deep blue sea
they go, to a place where they can't be found. 
 
...

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The wily Winter wind danced 
in the face of Spring;
Chasing brittle leaves across 
the straw colored lawn.
Whipping brittle branches
 from the maple trees,
to fall like pick-up sticks in a childish game.

The Spring sun maintained vigilance,
non-pulsed by the murder of crows 
lining the power lines;
refusing to rise to the wild winds bait.
Sunshine poured like melted butter
over the soggy soil
attempting to lure 
the early risers from their sleep.

Crocus’s stir....

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Recall


Country side gates
opening
Stars and the sun
relaxing
Nature Calming with
pride
As y'u sweetly
welcomed me
Eyes freshly met
with soft moods
Yo'r arms just
suited mine
Our hearts pulsed in
lines of symmetry's
We took a deep dead
breathe
That evening grew
false wings
Two lips made a
synonymous move
Hands styled up in
heaven of the earls
Not even a fire feel
heated attention
Green grass made a
verdant seat
To recall, y'u were
just her
My joy......

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I was once in gaze,
my swaddling robes
were saffron fibers 
and interlaced
my skin


a nebula


driftless
I pulsed,
and every eve
was a glimmer


circling a necropolis 
of double-stars
alone,
apart from the mosaic
finally,galaxies away


I fell from the firmament
my trajectory
earth


swathed now in mantles of dirt
moss grows between my toes


I pulse with life again
while the colour’s 
of being earthbound
bind me,
my skin interlaced again


in Technicolor...

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