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Best Somersaults Poems

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He's Just a Dog
He’s just a dog, a mongrel pup that fitted in me hand,
short haired, tan and white, with needs of high demand,
he’s whingy and he’s whiny,...

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Categories: somersaults, animal, dog, trust, mum,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member True Love Sailed Over Seas
TRUE LOVE SAILED OVER SEAS

Have I met trouble when I met your ocean eyes
for beneath that steady gaze, I reach the highest sky?
Slothful moon turned...

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Categories: somersaults, growth, inspiration, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Love Fever
It was to meet; my eyes with his.
Why, he’s no stranger; do I know him?
Why is he staring? Something’s wrong with me?
Our eyes lock and...

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Categories: somersaults, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spring Whimsy
Spring Whimsy

winter packs his trunk
 full of icy fleece and flakes ~
  going south for spring

spring unpacks her bags 
 rolls out green hills...

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Categories: somersaults, spring,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Raindrops of Immortality
RAINDROPS OF IMMORTALITY

Smiles were stolen from me long time ago
Days gone gray as storms rush to play: my...
They drain. Fervently, I called to the Heavens...

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Categories: somersaults, inspirational, journey, life, passion,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Beautiful Lies
Because of eyes as warm as honey, I
was melting, but the love I first believed
was shown me in his gaze was but a lie.
He uttered...

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Categories: somersaults, beautiful, lost love, me,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Barefoot In the Bushfires of the Vanities
"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"



Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten...

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Categories: somersaults, art, life, muse, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Child's Play
Childish giggles,
From tummy tickles,
Say "uncle" if you please.
Tippy tippy toes,
And "someone's got your nose", 
Grandpa likes to tease.

Piggy back rides,
And water slides,
"I double dog dare...

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Categories: somersaults, childhood, fun, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sailor's Pride
as he walks with pride
through the fields of ocean tides
youth gathered hearts love

silent spirit seeking lulled  salt tinged air
ocean froth waves  heave forward...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: somersaults, heart, love, ocean, pride,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When a Hero Stumbles
Out of the ether once came a small child
who hoped to one day fly thru the air.
Diligently applying herself, learning a style,
performing higher leaps, tapping...

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© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: somersaults, character, confidence, conflict, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Superman
Cape, strength and the mask- of one in disguise 
dawn, the light shinning through- here in my world
Oh.. to see your identity- those eyes
Dodging everything...

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Categories: somersaults, hero, truth,
Form: Sonnet
A Trapeze Flyer
circus performer
a family tradition
passed on to me

a big top flyer
Oohs and ahhs heard from below
in the spotlight's heat

higher I rise
reaching for my partner's hands
the moment...

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Categories: somersaults, adventure, fantasy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Because We Are Brave
On a pedestal high
and foundation weak,
When your lying tongue
no longer dares to speak,
Where at such a lofty place
pigs practice somersaults,
it will come to you, an...

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Categories: somersaults, hope, philosophy, political, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Dandelions Beg To Differ
Waiting for the world to make sense again
I jump back and forth every now and then
Lush grass and blue sky, but I don’t know
(The world’s...

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Categories: somersaults, anxiety, appreciation, beauty, encouraging,
Form: Prose Poetry
To Us
Run run run frm ya demons run run run its duck season 
Run run run frm da wizard run run run frm da blizzard 
Da...

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Categories: somersaults, rap,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs