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...

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Boys carry their snow sleds
         up, up
          ...

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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...

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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...

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The year of cracked shell self began and ended with a fall.            Fall.
Hatred for...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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It's a fishbowl world
    with a swimming wall between
People come and go
    with a swish!
    ...

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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...

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