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Best Handstand Poems

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


Jodis Happy Handstand
Jodi’s happy handstand 

Ms. Arias,
Ms. slashing throat,
Ms. stabbing-the-guy-27-times,
Ms. shooting-the-guy-in-the-****ing-head
after he was dead,
who got transformed for her trial,
from blond babe to
librarian (courtesy of her lawyer),
who has...

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Categories: handstand, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Flagpole Annie -- Potd
My grandma was a steeple jack, 
Of heights she had no fear.
The crowds would gather round to watch.
They came from far and near, 
 
To...

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© Ken Rone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: handstand, grandmother, humor, humorous, jobs,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dick the Bully
I had not been on another poetry site even a week
And I’ve already crossed paths with a bully 
A self appointed “Professor of Poetry” it...

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© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: handstand, anti bullying, bullying, strength,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ramblings of the Water Mistress
I feel the water
above me
below me
all around me
intimate
caressing
accepting
loving me

I go further down
to touch the bottom of the pool
and there
on the two painted dolphins
I push my...

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Categories: handstand, identity, water,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Tasted Summer
I tasted summer…
It sure tasted good
I was dying for a sip
Of my iced coffee CHINO
Only in Cyprus…
My drug of choice
Crushed ice with sweetened coffee
OH....YES!
In the...

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Categories: handstand, sea, september, summer, sun,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Forty Years and Counting
I was hopelessly smitten in English class,
By this girl with a boyfriend, a challenging impasse.
She had long shiny locks, the color of auburn,
And the curves...

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Categories: handstand, beauty, boyfriend, fun, girlfriend,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Christmas Limerick
Christmas limerick to honor my friends.
Do a handstand, but skip the knee bends.
We are getting old
Holidays are gold
Please enjoy them to their bitter ends.

When the...

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Categories: handstand, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Limerick
Life Is a Dance
Life is A Dance


Yesterday I was here, twirling about
Laughing and learning lifes lessons, no steps left out
Every now and then, I do have a stumble
Straighten...

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Categories: handstand, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Smell of Fear - Collaboration
Alien talk I can’t understand
A Pifflewig performed a handstand
He verbalised through his ass
Gross putrid wind he did pass
Like many blokes throughout the land!

I farted, perhaps...

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Categories: handstand, humorous, space,
Form: Limerick
Poems For Non Poetic People
That ugly duckling face of yours 
resembles the back end of a horse, 
that second face you have a gory sight 
a clogged lavatory orange...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: handstand, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Fly
Last night your ghost passed by me
Riding a bicycle with a basket
And oh, how badly I wanted to be in that basket
Like E.T,
Finger lit and...

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Categories: handstand, adventure, angst, loss, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Red Horse
A RED HORSE

Marc and Bella
beg for blessings
the portrait of a marriage

candlelight and the crimson cover
rides overhead
like a holy arch

a handstand,
like the artist’s euphoria,
balances on the...

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Categories: handstand, art, wedding,
Form: Free verse
Ass Arrangement Is An Ass Assortment
An assortment of assorted asses assessed antelope antics angelically arranged

A vibrant and charming assortment of periwinkles, mints, truffles, sliced peanut cubes, diced baps, and a...

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Categories: handstand, beach, beautiful,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Man In the Marching Band
Here’s the man in the marching band
Fiddlin with sticks on his petty hands
Marching, marching round the street
In the middle of the glazing blazing heat.

Here’s the...

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Categories: handstand, character,
Form: Rhyme
Among the Defeated
I
A queue to a doorway
No-one knows what´s
On sale there
It could be washing powder
Almonds or diamonds
You think this was some
Yesterday
Look out your
Ghost smeared
Window
This is now

II
Throw stones...

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Categories: handstand, anger,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things