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Best Somersaulting Poems

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Movements of Beginnings
written on time’s page
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Categories: somersaulting, history, philosophy, political
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Our Time
our
time
cashed out
way before
the meter expired
sending our dreams somersaulting
helter skelter to the whims of what never was planned
leaving fairy tales breathless, our favorite song, weeping still,...

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Categories: somersaulting, lost love, love,
Form: Fibonacci
Premium Member Night Street
The dank petrichor of grainy night,
meters stand like gravestones, 
the obsidian avenue slick as a sapphire,
windowed granite rising in sharp cut shadows,
wind gusting, tumbleweed clouds...

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Categories: somersaulting, imagery, night, rain,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Finding the Plot
Finding the plot

Of lost innocence
engrained in untold memories

The silenced absence 
in past present unspoken
stories well hidden
and therefore evoking
my past and my future
not mine and mine

Quite...

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Categories: somersaulting, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mr Bungo
Zany and free spirited, Mr. Bungo is a one man show
Yodeling any song you like, doing the "old soft shoe"
Xenial to one and all, he...

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Categories: somersaulting, children, fun, imagination,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Shadow From the Mud
One day, not long ago, I was careening 
like a kite on the winds of happiness
twirling through spaces of days that shone through all dark...

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Categories: somersaulting, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Almost Xanadu
Is it a reverie or a true slice of life?
Have I landed in Arcadia or an earthly paradise?
All seems so magical, eyes refusing to believe.
Am...

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Categories: somersaulting, appreciation, beauty, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On the Wheelchair
The old man gazed at the sun about to set
And its molten core soon to dissolve in the sea
Scratching his head with tremulous hands
And running...

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Categories: somersaulting, analogy, grandfather, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
A Second Spring
The dew indiscriminately

wept for all things living and dead

on this early autumn morning.

Its cold droplets caressed the leaves

while lingering sap-starved leaf stems

clung precariously above

and each...

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Categories: somersaulting, nature, autumn,
Form: Verse
Medley of Scenery Contrasts
Mushrooms 
and 
meadows
Sunshine 
and 
shadows

Gentle 
ripples on 
the calm 
river
Foaming 
rapids in 
white 
water
 
The jungle 
echoes in 
the semi-
darkness
while 
daylight 
creepy 
crawlies 
clear the...

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Categories: somersaulting, creation, nature,
Form: Couplet
Flying With Flair
Two hundred mile an hour they say
a Fireblade screams along its way
but when alas, the rider’s Ray
the Fireblade went a different way.

It sped down Chester...

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Categories: somersaulting, flying, life, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
A Poem's Flight
When words quiet my mind and awaken
my spirit, I feel the seasons of life
harmonize. But tedious thoughts and busy 
days return too fast, so I...

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Categories: somersaulting, emotions, poetry, wisdom, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Stages of Madness
"The Stages of Madness"



Blue bleeds 
into each day 
cloudy I wait 

for some sign 
from You
a ghost waving

who 
could blame me
an Ocean inside 

I am...

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Categories: somersaulting, dark, i am, light,
Form: Free verse
A Little Short
Somersaulting down.
squirrel barely missed branch
back up, try again...

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Categories: somersaulting, life
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Under the Magical Spell
On the woolly folds of sleep, I sailed to a place
Where thoughts and fancy made an alliance
A place that never existed anywhere on the Earth...

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Categories: somersaulting, appreciation, beauty, dream, fairy,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs