Short Flopping Poems

Cadillac speeding….
Rattlesnake’s crushed head flopping
Visceral twitching...

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A FLIP-FLOPPING DEATH

Seeking its freedom,
A fish leaps from its fishbowl;
Flip-flopping to death:-...

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Flopping sweating 
Gurgling buzzing
Chainsaw wielding beast
Nightmare I could wake from
If I could only sleep...

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I need not
these whoremoans
nor this 
baby baking box
nor does my lover
need me flopping
like a flounder
on the docks...

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i knew the tears would come 
didn't know exactly when
it happened when I saw the american flag
flopping flaccidly in the hate filled wind...

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Escaping their bowls,

Poor fish flipping and flopping;

Dying free at last:-

Let us flip-flop injustice,

As we live lives free at last....

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A party was held for wife swapping
But so many bellies were flopping
The wives searched in vain
For something to gain
As any big deal spurs thrift shopping!...

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My flipping,flopping, bounding dog,
Excitedly jumped over a fallen log,
He should have looked before he leapt
Landing in a creek with his misstep,
Now he's dog paddling past a frog....

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Flipping,
flopping,
flashes of blue,
fish school.

Sunlight shines from the surface
showing scaly faces,
subtle currents flow,
swimming with fluttering fins,
fish nibble food from below....

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 In the unfairness that ever is life, since
 Cinderella will never be wife, to 'her prince'

     She settles for average, ordinary shmoes
     Ditch the glass slippers ~ flip-flops, gnarly toes
...

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Big brave fellow, I've brought you up well
Behaved yourself but sometimes it was hell
You kept flopping out
Your size no doubt
But you took inopportune moments to stand up and swell


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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As life throws curves I cannot help but contemplate, 
Whose shoulder do I cry on, destiny or fate?! 
The question is why 
Between you and I -
Way more freaking challenges flopping on my plate! 

February 16, 2023...

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Leaping, though mud-soaked
Splattered of face
Out those rains, with toads.
Less in disgrace!

Hurtling, though with burs
Bee stings o'er me
Down those steeps, bump, bump
Summer-possessed,
With flopping lizard.
Not so distressed!...

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i found a bird in my yard
seemed it could not fly
it was just flopping about,
so took it in i did...
mended its wounds,
and nourished its needs.
a cat got hold of it,i believe?
now it is under-ground...dead.

poor little feller,it tried....

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Scantily skipping imp,
Feet floating
Like an electrified shrimp,
Shoe sole flapping
Like an unpaid pimp,
Flamp-p-p 
           
Listing limping imp,
Toes knotting
Like a ballerina chimp,
Shoe tongue flopping
Like a deflated blimp,
Flimp-p-p...

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no words
tame me
love
fell
in
a
welding rod bucket
mental love puppets
parrots flopping down
mockingbirds drowned
last canary got shoved
gas chamber
cage loved
feathers sucking flames
watching wingtips dancing on fires remains
?...

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Baggy elbow
Whisking a wow
Flapping & flopping
Constrained by conforming
With ambition

Baggy elbow
Blowing a bow
Swinging & swagging 
Hung from haggling
With normalcy

Baggy elbow
Trying a toe
Cracking & creaking
Tired from trusting
Itself...

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How was it before the pushing pelvis
had me flopping onto slick latex?

I am arriving mother,
still seeking the hands
that caught me.

There has been a lot of rubber
left on the road.

This six pounder is even now
leaving for somewhere else -
still slipping through....

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flight,  good afternoon
a mantled, wild squirrels skips
betrayed by the doves

flipping and flopping
his tail waving so briskly
jumps from branch to branch

dropping nuts on doves
as they so do try to leave
fly away dove fly





2/3/20
Written words  by
James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©...

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wind dry
in the sun
clothesline magic
pinned in happy delight
fresh smell

wet blouse
waves gaily
clothesline magic
brave flipping and flopping
wind blown

denium
Heavy jeans
extra pinning
bogging down the wire
bending

clothes line
nostalgia
backyard neighbor
moms pinning together
60’s...

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How was it
before the pushing pelvis
had us flopping onto slick latex,
why cannot we recall it?

This world-dreaming amnesia 
is Gods doing we are told,
but I wonder if a six pound infant deity 
is even now
leaving a heavenly sphere
to slip through a birth canal,

already forgetting
if the lights were left on 
or off?...

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They have to knock me out
Before I feel comfortable
My hands have to be flopping like a dead fish
I have to look like a corpse with my mouth open wide
I have to be semi-conscious
They have to use nitrous to keep me in lah lah land
When I come out of the twilight zone there will be hell to pay
I hate the dentist, and he is not fond of me either....

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One day as I was walking in the snow,
carefree 'till a patch of ice hit my toe;
my arms flopping while slipping,
tottering but not flipping;
my new walking just so silly and slow.

___________________
February 17, 2018



Poetry/Limerick/As I Was Walking In The Snow
Copyright Protected, ID 18- 9952-56-01
All Rights  Reserved.  Written Under Pseudonym....

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Venture without stopping
Hold on to your dream
Remain flipping flopping
That dream will lose gleam

Demur without waver
Do not hesitate
Defer, Accept favour
And you seal your fate

Observe, eschew bias
And trust what you see
Maintain neither pious
Submission; be free

Toward freedom aspire
Spurn hegemony
Honest witness require
For integrity

2 March 2018...

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It’s been a few days, but snow still lingers,
fighting rearguard engagements with time,
hiding in shadowed walks, covered alcoves,
holding out against inevitable disappearance;
only a memory of white-covered ground,
joy to some, yet a danger to many others,
brought city to standstill, except those slipping
down icy paths and roads, flopping like fish
waiting for shoppers in a port market....

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