Best Backstroke Poems

Horace the tortoise was ready to dine
He ordered his food, while the waiter poured wine

They bought the first course, (a huge bowl of soup)
But, the...

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people's lives would be less chaotic and probably more sane
if on the road of life they would just stay in their lane
one shouldn't try to...

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There was once a finicky chap named Lou,

     Who espied a fly swimming in his stew!

     ...

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A whispering word is a whispering void cantering over airspace. Clear but unclear. Oh the sheer detectable ideology of the fungal worm. Chitter chatter consume....

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Claire won 5 medals at the Barcelona Paras, 
In 1992, where she took the 50m freestyle gold, 
To set a World Record, and in the...

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July 30th 2010

Face of Foul

Clever thy is or thy once was?
On a clear day, I did indeed pray.
So then, the clouds flew over me.
After many...

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winter dawn
a patch of clouds
blossom a bare tree


holding on 
with what she left behind  
winter moon


winter rain 
the urge to feel
the newborn


full moon
winter’s stillness
in...

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As I sit and try to imagine,
I look and find another distraction,
find there's a fly in my poetry soup,
quite like a Michael Phelps swimming laps
around...

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The cleaning ladies are here, oh boy!
We'll soon get through the rubble, oh joy!
Perhaps a bomb went off
There's swimmies in my broth
Doing the backstroke and...

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Jessica-Jane is best known for London 2012,    
When she won the gold in a dramatic finish, 
In the swimming 200 metres freestyle...

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Swoosh, she vacillates in malleable form
as ocean waves or garden hose splashes,
encapsulating life's nautical swarm
and keeping plants fresh with misty dashes.

In a cup, her shape...

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Aaron comes from Trowbridge in Wiltshire,
But recently moved his training to Swansea,
At London 2012 for backstroke he won silver, 
He has a learning disability, so...

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It was Hannah’s young dream to win golds, 
At Paralympics because she was born blind, 
So she races in the visually impaired class, 
S12 along...

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Pardon me waiter
But there's a fly in my soup
Doing the backstroke...

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Alice is only 17 so put her studies on hold, 
Of psychology, English literature and art, 
To train for the Rio Paras, hard as she...

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