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Belly Flop Poems - Poems about Belly Flop

Conception
...The day is conceived, tossed bedsheets birth landscapes. Apelike, a grin gawps. In the backroom of a slow thought I dress for breakfast - recall the tropics, sticky rice, coconut milk and ......

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Categories: belly flop, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Journey to the Right Brain
...Our brains, the experts do opine, Have a left side, a right side, and a dividing line – But that daunting corpus callosum I fear to cross it - there to, here from. I started out upon a path O......

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Categories: belly flop, math, poetry, retirement,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Ducks For Breakfast
...Have you ever seen a duck come in to land… on land It’s an eventuality that nature never planned For ducks that land on water such a graceful splashdown make But should they land on terra firma… ......

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Categories: belly flop, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member That Little Brat Jack
...Planted like a seed, the giant fell from the beanstalk. He left behind his golden eggs and singing harp. It was a faceplant…a belly flop…a real humdinger. The trench went on for miles with no smil......

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Categories: belly flop, adventure, angst,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Boyhood
...Boys carry their snow sleds up, up to the highest peak scaling risk their voices pitched chattering noise of expectation ......

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Categories: belly flop, addiction, boy, children, confidence,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Unrestrained
...Children run to piles of raked leaves a gift of lightness belly flop carnival escapist pleasure that lifts laughter ......

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Categories: belly flop, autumn, childhood, children, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It's the Little Things
...Miniature Bats with big blinky eyes batting butterscotch kisses Baby belly flop Frogs that happily hop and squiggling Lilliputian Octopi Tiny hats on Teensy Teddy Bears casting star bright wishes ......

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Categories: belly flop, appreciation, giggle, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Proboscis
...Mr. Brenun Lays Pro-- boscis, a belly flop, said: "No tax read my lips" no one could read them at all coz, both mantled by his nose! Do not play with Arabian poetics ;)......

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Categories: belly flop, blue, body, business,
Form: Free verse
Jack's Ironman Contest
...Not quite as thin and nimble being middle-aged, Jack entered the Ironman contest feeling brave, trying to jump over the candlestick, he fell into it doing a split, with his privates requiring a l......

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Categories: belly flop, humor, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Osprey
...Wide wings with dark fingery tips Fan tail of duplicate feathers From beneath: a small white bird, wearing a glamorous white-grey-brown coat A black moon sits in the middle of staring round yellow......

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Categories: belly flop, bird,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Live and Let Die Exercise
...The year of cracked shell self began and ended with a fall. Fall. Hatred for being shoved boiled the innards. Hard boiled to one might say. If one could find words. ......

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Categories: belly flop, anger, betrayal, flying, growing
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Dog Walking Me
... My Dog Walking Me Out of the door, turn left, then cross I'll lead us on, cause I'm the boss. Let me see, it looks as though... over down this way, oh you must know it's just beyond the sho......

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Categories: belly flop, animal, dog, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Big Fat Cousin's Wedding
...My favorite cousin named Marge is almost as big as a barge. So one would assume, not knowing the groom, the guy would most likely be large. But he was a small man named Tim “As thin as a br......

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Categories: belly flop, funny, dance, fire, dance,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Summer Fun
...One hundred feet of yellow plastic, that's how long it seemed to me. Stretching from the picnic table, on past that grand pear tree. Water flowing from a garden hose, kept the surface slick and wet.......

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Categories: belly flop, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
No More Belly Flops!
...A belly flop, I was dared to do After my beer, I headed for the pool- A diving board jump! Enormous splash- all my plump Bystanders drenched, Me- feeling like a fool. Next time they want a boi......

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Categories: belly flop, funny
Form: Limerick

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