Long Balance beam Poems

Your love is like a river peaceful and deep, 
like a secret I just can’t keep, like the shearing of a sheep,
like taking a leap, like my hand falling asleep, your love is like 
the...

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Teachers, Teachers.
Teachers Teach us.
They give us speeches and praise us like Jesus
But they're not holy, swag.
They cater solely, for themselves;So selfish. 
Some are rude and crabby;So shellfish.
There are fat teachers, black teacherswhite teachers, nice teachersmean...

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How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!

Ulysses by Lord Tennyson

Tin Man : [squeaking] Dorothy : He said "oil can." Scarecrow : Oil can what? ......

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A Creator Variation (1)

Part I:
When I was four and
You, precognizant either of our DNA or
An epidemic rippling through the stomach fat of the nation,
Enrolled me in gymnastics, I was
Not so young that I didn't know
My...

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ZUZU’S PETALS


Zuzu’s petals were reality-checks for George Bailey. 
If they were  in his pocket, his was a was real-life vigorous;
If not, it was a dream.  They were proof of reality.
The petal issue, like...

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Limit pushed to the balance beam
A limit point that is not as it seems
Figuratively missing the true meaning
Limit pushed to the balance beam

An act with more pressure to stick
A life that is a limit point...

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She's an eighteen year old young lady
Who came from San Jose, California
And along with her teammates they won the gold. 

She's Amy Chow and a very lucky young lady
Because she took a nasty fall from...

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Her life is a circus
Making a clown of herself
Lacks substantial purpose
Balance and health

One rope to another
Rocking her balance beam
The circus is her lover
Together they scream

Blackened tears
Lips a horrid maroon
Juggling fears
Her life, a cartoon

Such an imagination
Seeing...

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sunshine bends a knee in vigil
seeking absolution's hell
the steeper edge of steel
balance beam of a trail
the driving wheel 
is Spiked for the kill
a heart in trespass
rigged like a printing press
cut from raw intensity
a Bad seed...

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Up, down, up and down
The movement of my emotions
Contrary to a child on a seesaw
This undulation is not enjoyable.
The abrupt changes make me dizzy.
Whirling, whirling, “ashes, ashes
We all fall down,”
Yet I don’t get back up.
Tired,...

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Balancing midst them both, two lives at once.
Split down the middle and torn at the seams.
Tiptoe the balance beam, pleasing the ones 
who know only one side of things.

Confliction, a way of life down to...

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Towering
Heavenly wood
Mount Olympus 
awaits
Hermes hustles
Wings flailing
Seeking higher ground
Elemental gossip.
Aphrodite's eros oozes
bombastically from the cargo net
onlookers salivate. 
Poseidon glares from the pit
monitoring his realm 
for rapacious rambunctious rascals.
Apollo's mirth emanates
atop the monkey bars
emotions elevate.
Ares hangs by...

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Our natural inclination is to achieve balance,
Like on the teeter-totter, seesaw, or balance beam
So difficult in life, like standing on the point of a lance.

Life can sometimes remind us of a humorous meme;
Other times we...

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I heard the tale of Humpty Dumpty who sat on a wall,
and how he managed  to have a terrible and fatal fall.

But let me be the first to set the record straight,
everything that happened...

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    Faint recognition; 
     ambiance, for hire,
    this job is precarious,
     but can she steal the show?
    Holding...

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Simone Biles holds the World Championship,
gymnastics has always been her  t r u e  dream-
She GLOWS with beauty performing tough flips,
adored by her grace on the balance beam.

E l e g a n...

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remember when you cared,
remember when there was hope.
when life was a balance beam,
not a thin tight rope.
when you still had innocence.
before life made you numb.
when you thought you knew,
before you knew you were dumb.
hard knock...

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Gymnasts on the balance beam,
Poised and in control;
Somersaulting, toes a'point -
Gold their longed-for goal.
 
Dusted hands for surer grips,
Hair slicked back from faces;
Ready to perform what they've
Perfected through their paces.

Eyes like lasers, bodies taut,
They spring...

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Young ladies of steel showing their true grit
as they prance on the narrow balance beam.
Breathtaking moves, never thinking to quit;
never losing site of that golden dream.

Twisting with grace amid strong somersaults,
impossible feats commanding the floor.
Soaring...

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I can't recall exactly when
Life swung and hit me on my chin
I"m ashamed to say, it knocked me cold
When I came to, I woke up old

While I was out, I had a dream
Of juggling on...

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I declined your questions today because its time for a little fidelity.
To my friends and to reality.
My name is Caroline and I'm ready to tell you who I am.
My life has been eaten alive by...

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I am the new Reaper.
Stealing souls as I walk across shattered glass meadows.
    Taking life from both young and old.
Leaving pain and hate to be consoled.
    Breaking promises and...

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