Short Tumble Down Poems

Parachuting flakes
Tumble down the windows pane
As drops of water...

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Winter snowflakes tumble down
hovering over lost years
second chances shall not be
no love left to give 

11/10/15...

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I want to tumble down and 
down
the thorny slopes 
if only to land with
a clean slate in the head
and a strong string in the heart....

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'Scepter and Crown
must tumble down.'
wrote a poet of a long past day. 
For want of renewal,
must so many a school
not tumble but crumble away....

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A fallen angel
Burst in flames and tumble down
Here lies the Devil and friends
Stealing souls to waste
Making mockeries of God
Blaspheming all the way down...

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Even a high sprout.

My wing has not been dreary.

In that dreadful well.

Fairy well with no bottom.

I tumble down to the ground.









03/15/2021...

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From
lake’s front
cliff stands proud
harshly sculpted---
rough

Till
fine grains
tumble down
like pearled beadwork--
smooth



3/04/2019
Joseph May's  Light Up The Page...

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Eyes open wide
Spirit lost sight
Feathers of hope
Born but not whole
Torn and not fly
Grasp but not hold
Shiver but not cold
Tumble down steps
As drops of tears
Fall into streams...

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snowflakes tumble down
trees lift their bare arms to hold~
down no leafy couch

Dec.5.2022

Winter Nature Themed Poetry Contest
Sponsor- Tania Kitchin...

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Listen to poem:

fall
is spring
in reverse
green leaves, bud bursts,
shrivel to brown, red,
tumble down and crumble

making pastel collage
dabbles of purple
orange, yellow
scattered in
lovely
daubs...

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fog rolls across the landscape
white pines disappear
enslaved by morning mist

from my balcony
hazy thoughts tumble down stairs
pandemic bound


Bite Size Poem No15 Contest
by Line Gauthier...

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seams of marriage come part 
as house of cards tumble down;
child's glue not holding parents 
all attempts in vain



Bite-Size Poem no.37 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Line Gauthier
Date written: 02/25/2022...

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The stumble blocks, the parts and pieces
An exchange is met and cold conversation clings
Heavy as an ant under solar demise, a magnifying glass
Casual tumble-down into irrelevent, replaceable poses
It amounts to silence trapped within frames
Broken glass and bric-a-brac...

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She thought
She had it in her
That she could
Pull it off

She thought
She had the strength
To watch it
Tumble down

Turned out time was precious
She had ambitions of her own
And couldn't be bothered
To play his silly games



AP: 3rd place 2023

Posted on March 11, 2019...

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Piggybacked on a feisty Fall breeze,
November scatters scarlet leaves.
And as bated breaths of air
disperse like contrails
in the skies above;
flurries of flakes
tumble down
ending
Fall.


(Nonet)


11/08/2022


A November Nonet Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Andrea Dietrich
(HMS) ...

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Yes,we walk in 
twilight
          we people of this 
earth
      Our time here may
soon be over
       the edfice
we 
have 
built 
      will soon 
tumble down
to the ground
     will we be remembered 
by the  cosmos?
         yes, it is getting 
darker all the time
    let's enjoy our
brief stay...

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A long necked goose flies over Cyprus,
Then slowly disappears before us,
A sword now comes, straight and true,
It too vanishes into the blue
Mountains form and tumble down,
Faces appear to make us laugh or frown,
We lie here on this warm and balmy day,
Watching clouds form and drift away.

© Dave Timperley June 2014...

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In the blizzard, Rudolph tumbled and swayed, 
Santa lost his balance, fell down dismayed, 
What surprise was in store! 
When I opened the door, 
And saw gifts scattered with Santa out, splayed! 



2nd December 2022

For Tania Kitchin's "A Funny Christmas or December Holiday Limerick" contest...

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Old Mother Goose
Frankly speaking was rather loose
The neighborhood was shocked and all in a dander
When she had a brief affair with a well-feathered Gander

When the news reached Jack and Jill
They took that tumble down the hill
Poor Jill lost her drawers and good gracious alive!
Little Jack got a rise in his tattered Levis......

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The theory is
drops of water
collected on dust

What I see is
a brilliant mix
of sky and earth

The bluest blue water
the greenest green grass
the blackest black dirt

Earth rising up
ties the heavens
to the ground

Waves of energy
tumble down
purging tainted lands

The healing power
of Louisiana sky
washes the past away...

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connect the dots
like the stars
in the night skies
wind magic
autumn leaves
tumble down
the street like
broken butterflies
the coming tide
retrieves all
that is stranded
while reaching
new stranded highs
wake before
the dawn
listen to
the silence
slip through
the crack
of day
shoot the rapids
of the
kaleidoscope
of life...

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when the fog starts to clear
becoming transparent like glass
and what you knew going in
starts to tumble down fast

when the pieces start to fit
finding the one that you missed
once hidden under a rug
beneath the chair in which you sit

closure will finally come
as I distance you from me
like the old saying goes
the truth does set you free...

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On the barren lava soil,
Windswept pines stretch out their arms,
Gnarled white bones against the sky.

Mountain wears majestic white
Glacier robes that flow between
Buttress ridges of black rock.
 
Rushing rivers tumble down
To the valley, where blue lakes 
Greet like eyes in seas of green.


Written in summer 2016 on the slopes of Mt. Hood...

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Twice around the track and then
Do it over once again
You might think a little sin
Just so I'll stay very thin

Up and down the stairs I go
Careful stepping heel to toe
Finally find an even flow
Then tumble down the final row

I guess not agile as a cat
My doctor says no more of that
I hope I stay the weight I'm at
Might end up getting very fat...

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The hills are clothed in gleaming folds of white,
With flow'rs, whose heady fragrance fills the air:
The spring has come, the sun pours out his light
On three small children playing without care.
The girl weaves knots of flowers in her hair,
Her brothers tumble down the hills and play;
They each enjoy the spring their special way.


{January 3d, 2014}...

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