Short Swimmer Poems

Here lays a great swimmer
Who drowned to death
In shallow waters of whisky...

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Bug lands
In my soup
Nasty insect
Uninvited swimmer
I’m ill!
...

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thunder and lightning
as rain lashes the ocean - -
a swimmer turns back

for Heather’s Ocean-ku contest...

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Jim was a silly fool.
Who fell into his swimming pool.
He wasn't a swimmer
He could not be dimmer.
It was very very uncool...

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there once was a sly swimmer bloke
whose manners were sure to provoke
	his form was unique
	a brand new technique
he mastered the women’s breaststroke...

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city swimmer yesterday

screamed a fish was in the way

lifeguards who heard the shout

quickly they pulled her out

and my goldfish from the bay.
...

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There once was an Olympic swimmer
Who accidently ate Viagra for dinner
His Speedo grew tight
He was awarded that night
A gold medal as the pole-vault winner...

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What thing seems to make men King Kong?
It lies under Michael Phelps’ thong
With each stroke of grace
See a free style freebase
That huge bulging spot is a bong...

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Floating
Swimming

Backstroke
A float

Swimmer
Dinner

Catfish
Rubbish

Bottom
Column

A float
Backstroke

4/29/19...

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There was a girly landlubber in pink  
Who to a burly fisherman was linked --
   Not a swimmer, she sank
   In his great big fishtank -- 
Now in winter she's a frozen ice rink...

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I dive in the deep end
down deep too long
my skin starts to tingle
water burns my lungs
not a strong swimmer
as I come up and choke
I can't swim back
but I can float
so I float...

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Listen to poem:

Your absence hurts me,
Like a persistent toothache
Or a pair of too-tight shoes.
But, worse, your hard face,
When finally we meet,
Leaves me panicked, gasping:
A doomed and thrashing swimmer,
Drowning in your indifference....

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little I discerned of pious words-
and idle twitter
scarcely had I known what I would find
among the dregs
it's a bitter pill to swallow
when a victory is hollow...
it's all downhill from here me thought
as I touched upon the egg!...

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We must shudder
as we go back in time,
all the way back
years before we can remember
to the decisive second when
one little upstream swimmer
strong enough to enter
and forever change
the constitution of an egg—
Bam!
It is written
the moment
we began....

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What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch

What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer 
~~~underwater~~~
watching the shoreline blur
sees through his breath's weightless bubbles:
both worlds grow obscure.

Originally published by Mandrake Poetry Review...

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Cara used to be a swimmer, but she had given it up
Her studies were taking every ounce of herself.
on a particularly difficult day she visited a pool
she dove in and swam, feeling like sunshine
remembering her hopes, dreams and inspirations
this refreshing water uplifted and inspired her...

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Cara used to be a swimmer, but she had given it up
Her studies were taking every ounce of herself.
on a particularly difficult day she visited a pool
she dove in and swam, feeling like sunshine
remembering her hopes, dreams and inspirations
this refreshing water uplifted and inspired her...

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Eyes panning down the lake
like sharpest Canon lens;
She captures all preys in sight~
Not a fastest swimmer,
not a fastest runner
Can flee from her big jaws
when hunger strikes tummy.


31 March 2022

Notes : Inspired by Joseph May's Pleiades Poetry Contest.
But this one isn't a Pleiades.
Reposted in response to Eve Roper's request....

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From corners of silver lakes, you shimmer
In glancing ripples, fluid treasure awaits
And I, diving for pearls, a swimmer
Tangled within your illusion of depth
Until the fragile surface separates
Ghosts of tarnished gold grows dimmer
As mirages of you fall to shallow fates.

8/14/21

First Place
Julyme contest

Poem of the Day
8/16/21...

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Lone Snow Swan

Lone Snow Swan
swims ice-water,
graceful 
along river 
tinged by frost-banks.
Geese gather 
in a gaggle
on the sidelines
as the single swimmer
holds
the cold centre,
tension mounting
between snowscape
and water 
as the two
reconcile
into a
winter-water
peace-freeze....

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In my dreams
I'm always alone
on monorail subway platforms
on anonymous beaches
with crowds and sharks feeding
and I the only swimmer.

In my dreams
I'm searching
cold rooms and buildings
backpackers hostels
street people alleys
rejected by old friends
yearning for my lost love
who has been taken
by other women
he loves more than me....

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The Duke

Duke Paoa Kahanamoku
Hawaii’s Polynesian Legend
Olympic swimmer-strokes freestyle
Represented USA & Hawaii
Shattered all records 
and brought surfing to the world!

Embraced Kaliani
Surfer's Mantra
Life Saver and introduced surfing to the mainland,
The beachboy gentleman
(1890–1968)...

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BOAT RIDING

                          Pretty pig and grey goat wearing white coat
                          came to river to float a wooden boat.	
                                 Boat rowed by Master Mole.
                                  At bottom, mole dig hole.
                         Boat sank but all rescued by swimmer colt.
 
  08/31/18...

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There’s a fin in the water
What’s its path?
Is it toward
Or has it passed

There’s a fin in the water
What’s its movement?
Is it curved
Or is it straight

There’s a fin in the water
Oh 
It’s a shark

There’s a fast swimmer
In the water
He’s making a path
Straight to the edge
So he will last

Authors note

This poem has been Censored...

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there is a subtle reason
youth entitles itself to treason
with the ever-changing faces
in slowly shifting places
the wind blows prophetically 
from a land that once was free
however is no longer

On the pool is the glimmer 
the transcendental swimmer
hiding in the clouds
blocking out the sun
run and tell your father
we've finally found his gun...

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