Long Summersaults Poems

MY LOVE, it was never your touch that sent my soul on fire,
           the way you ignited my passion without ration to acquire.
  ...

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~Jules~ 
(Free Verse) 


Jules was a French circus performer who lived a long time ago 
He performed the first mid-air summersault in the year 1859 
Thus at the tender age of twenty-one he became known...

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Fantasy 2-22-24  
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Parade

At midnight dawn my mind escapes parting the stars
Making my way to a summerland torchlight parade
Where grand marshals of zebra fish 
Lead the festival from fiery snow drifts of spun clouds
Making way...

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Bitter and corrosive
Not like lemon juice-or vinegar
Like battery acid

Consumptive
Skin falling off bone
Glass house dreams crunching under haste

Consuming 
Bone evaporating  to ash
Notions of forever lost on the wind 

Anger and dread
All encompassing 
Screams trapped in...

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We were born by one love,
Together We were born of love.
And together you and I for love.
Slip and slide anyway,
our love is a match.
On this sacred ground 
Just you and I in this whole universe.

The...

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so much darkness and gloom followed the tornado around Omaha
Some were dour and sour about it; I was numb, it had been a disaster
I have to get out of here, I told my husband. He...

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The greatest Show on earth can be found 
when the circus comes to town.
All the adults and children gather around
it's under the big top where they can be found.
A three ringed circus has all the...

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Let us find time and space, my love, where you and I
Fly high, try never again to cry
No matter what flak circumstances try
To lumber on us
When feelings blow hot on the bus
Where for your sake...

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As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
So is the he that a man thinketh
and becometh
as perishable
corruptible
dialogues infinite and resistant.
Universal universe spreads open
nonexistent legs to reveal the womb of creation.
Birth comes to ideas...

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Ridiculous, whimsical, outrageous, fantastical, crazy, my happy words
My go to places, where I exist in between other’s black and white worlds
I glance around my living room looking for an idea.
The orange lamp sticks out her...

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Sitting still with salty eyes 
summersaults in stomach strive 
suffering a poltergeist 
worried air blinding sight

quickly spawns anxiety
depression shortly joins
anger flows inside of me 
transforming all conjoin

From whole too quarter
fallen through invasion 
unable to thwarter...

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SUMMER HEAT AND HUMIDITY 
UNDER A COOL AND SHADY TREE 
REMMINISCING THE DAY'S EVENTS 
UNDER THE BIG TOP OF THE CIRCUS TENT  
COLORFUL FACE'S OF SILLY CLOWNS 
ACROBATS FLYING HIGH ABOVE GROUND  
LITTLE...

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Lily-petal was the quintessential female ringmaster
She commanded her animals to be super phenomenal
They did not let her down

Her monkeys would run around the circus stealing caps
The children would laugh and howl at their father’s expressions
Whether...

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