Best Tumble Poems

I’m on a twilight stroll with my beau,
we take a route we’ve often walked before.
Mystical moonlight flickers in the trees,
“whose woods these are, I think I know”*

A hooting owl startles me, I fall and twist my knee,
I try to stand, cry out pain; I cannot...

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life, death and tumbleweed

I have never encountered tumbleweed
in all of its restless rolling glory
never really thought about it
until just now.

if you ask me why now
my mind would appear 
as a new page
filled with potential
but all unformed

brown dried skeletal lace
at the mercy
of every wind that blows
crackling...

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Come dance in the waters
that summer has warmed
amidst the froth of the seas
Hear the sighs that echo from tides
as the crescents ripple in breeze
 
Join the surfers 
as they ride in on the waves
balancing bravely so tall
watch as their confidence grows so high
until showing off...

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Well hello there all my sweet dudes and dudettes
As I write this I contemplate dancing with the Rockettes
However when attempting their famous kicks
This endeavour leaves me in quite a fix
I ungraciously tumble on me bummo and my undies I do wet


© Jack Ellison 2015



Bet this...

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I want to fly, to spread my wings
and sprinkle love on everything –
on every creature known to man
around this world and back again.

I want to soar, to duck and dive,
to race and tumble, feel alive!
To travel freely without care
and feel the wind blow through my...

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we are here only for 
the pure joy of Living, 
a perfect simplicity of
blend requiem of life well lived
cognizant of ill pressed non beliefs
distant ***** dagger domestications
prisoner soulless sex socializations
livid love lies, greedy gonad gossip
self levied hate from sources abrupt
from in to ex turnal left...

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"I Tumbled
to see you"

said a bumbling bee
Who...
waves
to commit
with all
of a hartly
as it
shaves by
carving a part
on a pair
of eyes
to see
just what
dreams
of Thunder
from clouds
of wonder
were ahead...

A hearty
wave back
as it fled
made see
and humble
wasn't sure
of which t'rue
had truly been
truth seen

in a comment
as it were
it went and
only she
knew
so
a gamble
of scramble
ample...

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Bumble me , tumble me
tickle me blue , all the money in the world could not satisify you,
needful things , dreadful things and other things too,
is all that is needed to satisfy you....

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In the blizzard, Rudolph tumbled and swayed, 
Santa lost his balance, fell down dismayed, 
What surprise was in store! 
When I opened the door, 
And saw gifts scattered with Santa out, splayed! 



2nd December 2022

For Tania Kitchin's "A Funny Christmas or December Holiday Limerick" contest...

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The Forest moves only,
with the wind,
rocks in frozen tumble lay,
Time patiently watches,
my feet tread where children played,
long ago,
so very long before this day,
many smiles have walked this ground,
untold circles around this Sun,
the Forest grows slowly,
and rocks in frozen tumble lay....

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Where, when, and how will it happen?
If I ask questions, I receive questions
Of adoration. Silence ensues.
In worriment, I catch a look
On my lady's face, and come
To realize her head is spinning.

Mediums between tongues tumble,
Tangled in arms, clinging between rings
As glances unravel social instability.
Affection answers hope...

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Common sense if learnt,season to season
Excels all intellectual reason....

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tumble, little tumbleweed
come play ‘round my feet
I’ll dote my cares upon you
midst tenderness, replete

tumble, little tumbleweed
until you've found a place
devote time to appreciate
the treasures you embrace

tumble, little tumbleweed
dance your wonders, wild
tho’ I call you tumbleweed
you’re but my dearest child

tumble, little tumbleweed
learn and dream and grow
I'll...

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I broke a fingernail...
it's the least of my worries
fractured finger hurts

I took a tumble this morning.... after 3 1/2 hours at A & E the xrays revealed that I've broken my  little finger, i will be visiting the fracture clinic in the morning.

Apologies in...

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Eternity With You

It seems like an eternity that you have been gone,
But every day; you're still on my mind, like a song
Sidling through this loving heart of mine
It never fails, every single day, every single time.

But I don't mind that you do,
You'd always bring a...

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