Short Handstands Poems

Mottled black and white rooster stood proud on his sled
Can he do handstands and back flips? Asked his cousin Ned.
He could but he won’t, his sister, a rule stickler said.
The rooster listened to all of these expectations with dread....

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Mottled black and white rooster stood proud on his sled
Can he do handstands and back flips? Asked his cousin Ned.
He could but he won’t, his sister, a rule stickler said.
The rooster listened to all of these expectations with dread....

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I miss those days of hopscotch

Doing handstands against the wall

Skipping, riding bikes, running free

Playing with friends…. having a ball!


Those days of youthful exuberance and excitement 

Of joyful simplicity personified

Not knowing back then its true beauty and value

Until viewed through adult eyes



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This most peculiar man
Who did handstands in the pool
Always in the shallow end
In his speedo, to stay cool?

I've seen him dance in the street alone
This most peculiar man
Or out lying on the public grass
Working on his his tan. 

But mostly I saw him by the water
His banana hammock donned.
This most peculiar man
Some of the neighbours, not too fond. 

But every warm and sunny day
His feet rose above his hands
Waving about in his speedo again
This most peculiar man....

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