Best Belly Flop Poems

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 broom” describes him.
While Marge would guffaw,
Tim would watch her with awe
and...

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Boys carry their snow sleds
         up, up
                  to the highest peak
         ...

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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
one huge river prawn,
all wrapped in a banana leaf.

Slipshod I slip away from that world
adjusting my internal optics.

A blueberry muffin...

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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… it sure ain’t Swan Lake

Each one does a belly flop,...

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 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 short plateau.

Hey,quit moving like a swivel chair
don't you see, it's...

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The year of cracked shell self began and ended with a fall.            Fall.
Hatred for being shoved boiled the innards.     Hard boiled         ...

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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.
And there I was, first one in line.
Was I ready?  You bet!

One, two, three....

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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 eyes
It descends – gliding down towards the still lake 
Its claws are moved in front,...

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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 boisterous cheer,
Hopefully not until next year-
No more jelly belly
Stay away from the deli
I'll...

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Like a fish out of the water

you caught me by surprise

and

my mind a continual motion machine

perpetuates my nervousness

and endorphins

push through my veins like

an excitatory Water Park.

Initially when I began to speak to you it was  like going going down the waterslide with
the 50 foot...

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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 smile.
All he could think was, “That little brat, Jack…”

The giant was wobbly at...

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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 little first aid,

Then he had to jump over a paddling pool,
he gave a running start as...

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Children run to piles of raked leaves
           a gift of lightness
                        ...

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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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It's a fishbowl world
    with a swimming wall between
People come and go
    with a swish!
        into some hidden hole    but
As you hover
    in some mind-suspended state
You...

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