Short Somersaults Poems

roll in grass
perfecting
somersaults



posted on April 27, 2019...

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waves in somersaults
chasing and slurping ebb’s smooch
pearls at ocean shore



Dec. 27, 2020
10.46pm...

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 Tom Sawyer did three somersaults, a back flip, stood on his head

   Becky Thatcher scrolled up and down her device ~ said, 'Go soak your head'...

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the words
tumbled forth
like a waterfall
over a steep cliff
and when they
hit bottom
as words inevitably
will
they did handsprings
backflips
somersaults
and kept on
laughing...

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Autumn is violent here
The leaves throw themselves from the branches
Performing neat somersaults 
A final salute to the summer they have loved
And lost

Even down here
On the pavement
In their last moments
They bleed summer

Sunset blood sticks 
To the soles of our shoes...

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The fabric of our lives,
Undone, dirty, and deprived,
A loose finger, a wandering 
eye,
Leave them on the table.
Look, but don’t pry.

Send somersaults through the 
air.
Watch the world scatter.
You’re a witness.
You’re a cause.
You keep climbing, climbing 
the ladder....

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On a great rink
where no one could sink
she puts a smile and her faith
Now this young girl is ready to skate

A perfect triple pirouette 
combining the magical minuet
Excellent somersaults... she did it twice
Her grand leaps made fires on ice

Her flaming dance of passion
was an intense fusion
and this winter...
she is the winner...

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in reminiscence I recall-
the simple things,the fol-de-rol
the somersaults but most of all
I remember gumby!

for every matinee I'd seen
in salad days when I was green
hats off to the silver screen
I remember gumby!

a royal breed of moral code
a loyal steed to share the load
to whom I dedicate this ode...
I still remember gumby!...

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I don't know what I'm doing here,
Your driving me insane.
You make my heart do somersaults,
I don't even know your name.
Your smile is warm and tender
Your eyes the brightest star,
They could put you in a crowded room
I would know exactly where you are.
If I was ten years younger,
And a whole lot fitter too.
I would take you by the hand right now,
And run away with you....

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There was an old man from Bluegrass,
          who always ate green sassafras.
                        His tummy got icky,
                        somersaults and sicky,
                 took pills, now there’ll BEANO more gas!




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Written: April 10, 2018...

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circus performer
a family tradition
passed on to me

a big top flyer
Oohs and ahhs heard from below
in the spotlight's heat

higher I rise
reaching for my partner's hands
the moment of truth

I hold my breath
hundreds of feet above ground
grabbing victory

swinging freely
after somersaults flying
applause like music

an entertainer
my calling to defy laws
of gravity...

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Clocks somersault to drive time;
Can we stop time by breaking all clocks and alarms?

The Earth somersaults to sail through years and centuries;
Would we request our ship to pause the aging of mankind?

The Light somersaults from dawn to dusk;
Could we order this planet to stop it's revolutions around the sun?

Lives somersault from good to bad;
But we can walk gracefully without bad deeds....

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Jumping, bouncing up down really keen.
Double somersaults on the trampoline.
Enthusiasm loud giggles.
Out doing big brothers errs,
Bouncing higher, higher like jumping bean.

What goes up,  must come straight down. What the hack!
Double flip, lull …. plop, flop, flat on their back.
Turns head over heels in air
Landing on their feet with flair.
This's the upright way you do it with knack.

5/11/2024...

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Petals in the wind
Gusting through the trees
Landing in the grasses
Mid the flowers and the bees

Petals in the wind
Dancing all around
Flitting through the belfry
Far above the distant ground

Petals in the wind
Petals in my hair
Somersaults and backflips
Filling up the scented air

Petals in the wind
Petals on the sand
Petals shifting, changing
Forming patterns that are grand

January 15, 2013
By Isaiah Zerbst...

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A sight that no one really needs 
Is piles and piles of tumbleweeds
But that is what I do believe
Was seen out west on New Year's Eve.

Along a stretch of highway there
Were tumbleweeds beyond compare.
The road was closed for 20 miles, 
The drivers stuck not sporting smiles.

It took the crews 10 hours or more
To make the highway like before.
Though New York City has its faults,
Our weeds do not do somersaults!...

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bouncing pouncing jumping up down    keen   		
somersaults  on  trampoline 				
enthusiasm giggles					
out doing  big brother’s  errs				
bouncing higher    higher   like  jumping beans		

what goes up must come down     what the hack  	
	flip, lull ….  plop  flop   flat on his back	
			 		 
turns head over heels in air  				
landing on her feet  with flair					
this is the way you do it  	  with knack	

3/6/2016...

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Frisking in glee,
the cobweb swayed,
the wind that was crossing ventilators,
kissed the spider,
it did somersaults,
pole vaults and high/long jumps,
it was just aware of air,
and its soothing effect,
and ran amuck one cobweb corner to another,
it scarcely did realize,
that enemy had intruded the abandoned room,
and was thinking of inhabiting it clean,
first thing it would do was to use a broom,
and sound poor gleefull spider's doom....

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Nadia Comaneci 
Gymnastic Queen
Olympic starlet
Romania's dream
 
Montreal summer
As this young girl bloomed
Three Gold Medals
Young boys swooned
 
Moscow 1980
Another two Golds won
For this Romanian girl
The darling one
 
America bound via Montreal
This young gymnast stool so tall
Her dance routines, amazing and hip
From her somersaults, to her back flips
 
She was one of my idols
When i was in my teens
Her Perfect 10
Has to be seen
 
" Dedicated to Nadia Comaneci "...

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