Get Your Premium Membership

Best Calisthenics Poems

Below are the all-time best Calisthenics poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of calisthenics poems written by PoetrySoup members


Babylonian Calisthenics

Bow down 
when you hear the music

Stand up
when you hear the sound

Limber low
when you see the golden image
Babel Tower rise pyramid erect 
like a flagpole

Toes...

Read more of this work...
Categories: calisthenics, imagery, political, symbolism, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Niagara
*Niafalls, the****** Antiope of Canada,
Amazonian, but not breast less,
***Snowy bosom like virginal gems,
Swelling lips moderately full,
Savoury odor felt all around,
****Crystalline throat striking the eyes.

Meandering, churning,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: calisthenics, nature,
Form: Personification
Spring Training
Half of the teams are headed to Florida.
The other half will journey to Arizona.
Yes fans, everybody can let out a cheer.
Another baseball spring training is...

Read more of this work...
Categories: calisthenics, seasons, sports, baseball,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas At the Cuckoo's Nest
CHRISTMAS AT THE CUCKOO'S NEST

Of all the holidays that come and go
Christmas is the one that we love best.
No matter how crazy, it just goes...

Read more of this work...
Categories: calisthenics, celebration, christmas, crazy, holiday,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member What Am I-Niagara-W
I am the Antiope of Canada,
Amazonian, but not breast less,
Snowy bosom like virginal gems,
Swelling lips moderately full,
Savoury odor felt all around,
Crystalline throat striking the eyes.

Meandering,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: calisthenics, metaphor, nature, places, women,
Form: Free verse



Arranging Flowers
The tulips know.

Put them in a vase.
Observe myopic stems
heavy with thirst.
Observe choreography
that lifts lion heads
again and again in
different calisthenics
until blowsy with life,
no petal left unfolding,
they...

Read more of this work...
© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: calisthenics, light,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Niagara-W
Niagara, the Antiope* of Canada,
Amazonian*, but not breast less,
Snowy bosom like virginal gems,
Swelling lips moderately full,
Savoury odor felt all around,
Crystalline throat striking the eyes.

Meandering, churning,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: calisthenics, women,
Form: Free verse
Decolonize
It has come out of academia,
and gets some play in the media too,
they cry about ‘decolonization,’
as if time is something they can undo.
They all say...

Read more of this work...
Categories: calisthenics, culture, history, native american,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Niagara River-Side Walk
churning and darting
changing from blonde to brunette
do calisthenics

                 ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: calisthenics, beauty, river,
Form: Haiku
Sophie Reiff, Trophy Wife
Is this the weekend, by the way?
           (I always think it’s Saturday!)
   ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: calisthenics, satire,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Niagara-W
Niagara, the Antiope of Canada,
Amazonian, but not breast less,
Snowy bosom like virginal gems,
Swelling lips moderately full,
Savoury odor felt all around,
Crystalline throat striking the eyes.

Meandering, churning,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: calisthenics, nature,
Form: Lyric
One Most Dramatic Change In My Life
(A recent virtual chat with thine youngest daughter
awakened poignant memories adjusting to 
fatherhood for first time).
     
December 22nd 1996 Bundle of...

Read more of this work...
Categories: calisthenics, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Callisthenic Clara-W
I received her phone call out of the blue,
I felt I have encountered my poem.
I wished nothing bad happens to her,
When I looked at her...

Read more of this work...
Categories: calisthenics, love,
Form: Lyric
Palm History Awash With Drips
(Me slippery fingers slither,
slip and slide splashing ala
Jackson Pollock), sans slap
dash experimental, swiftly

tailored and harried writing
style, yes on par with purging,
spewing, venting...unexpurgated,
unexpressed, unexplained... 
words, which...

Read more of this work...
Categories: calisthenics, analogy, atheist, boat, creation,
Form: Free verse
Designated Deliberation
Bilocating bison on a leopard printed dash to save the whale. When money is organic and organs play. Sunbathing on a nightshift is never that...

Read more of this work...
Categories: calisthenics, beach,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs