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Somersault Poems - Poems about Somersault

as we metamorphose

...as we metamorphose

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submitted : 11/6/25

two points of a straight line
birth and death that need to 
lightly kiss, after plunging depths 
dissolve ...
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Categories: somersault, allusion, change, character, creation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThrust In The Centre Of The Storm All I Could See Was You

...Serrated swathes of overwhelming savage gusts without compassion,
directionless dilatory daydreamer that  I am  ostensibly vulnerable,
to the serendipitous intrusion at a wispy sapphire cloud flacc...
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Categories: somersault, angst, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberEarth Angels

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                           visible
                         tangible 
                     non-celestial 
                    no halo hovers 
                 above their heads
           ...
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Categories: somersault, angel, appreciation, perspective,
Form: Free verse

Somersault

...Once upon a midnight
At a fireplace in my old home,
I read onto a paper, my knees on wood.
It was a letter,
My good will's final tome.
Sobbing and shivering through my hood,
I had been wounding...
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Categories: somersault, allegory, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTen Gallon Hat

...I come from the borough of Queens, New York
My classmates call me a Klutz and a dork
Those names pervaded my soul, taking a toll
Being at the bottom of the totem pole.

Then Dad took me to the t...
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Categories: somersault, environment, girlfriend, humor, pride,
Form: Lyric



Premium MemberSwing Empty, Swings in Breeze

...An empty swing sways, lilting loneliness in the breeze,
With no children in play, no laughter's squeal to please,
Its rusty chain creaks a forlorn squeak for days gone by.
Like lonesome clouds tha...
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Categories: somersault, games, longing,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberStudio Dune

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      Staircase shifts as my footsteps climb
      Trapeze tree swing, springy arm chimpanzee
      Undulates gripping limbs, gym sublime 
      Driftwood bone betides baton twirling frenzy ...
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Categories: somersault, blue,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberBuzz Off

...I swung with a vengeance but missed that damned fly
The breeze I’d created caused him to pass by
My electric racquet in underarm mode
Still failed to make that bluebottle explode

It filled me w...
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Categories: somersault, humorous, insect,
Form: Rhyme

No One Is Looking

...Cadence lowers its tenebrous tempo
Dulcet to a morose Memento Mori-bund
Lachrymose ribbon garnet fountain
Ruby rivulets in wine glass Chardonnay
Bubble floats to pop
Silence yet I sway

Miasma...
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Categories: somersault, art, beautiful, beauty, class,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberUntitled

...You have eyes that fly me to the moon
Silver sonnets slip from licorice lips
Making maroon heart do somersault 
Flips my DNA to create a new soul 

In my womb as you swoon
I feel the formation ...
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Categories: somersault, anxiety, birth,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Mind's Room

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A Craig Cornish Contest: Empty Room

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A kaleidoscope of unknown thrill rushes
within my swollen veins, needle-pricked – 
and the liquid opiate carries me high, upstream
like...
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Categories: somersault, angst, places, recovery from,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCraving otherworldly Respite

...Crystal eyes gleam
at the prospect of
scintillating sapphire blush
gliding films of
wonder dilate bliss
driven lilac haze
spasmodic orbital earth
spinning obtuse lumen
tangents of night mist
...
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Categories: somersault, appreciation, beauty, birth, deep,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Fitness Fight

...Resolved was I to exercise,
To utmost try to slenderize.
From flabby bod I'd poundage peel
To Grecian god beneath reveal.

But soon my straining torso frail
Becomes complaining, moaning male...
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Categories: somersault, body, change, fantasy, health,
Form: Quatrain

Emmas Smile

...Emma’s Smile

He picked her up the other day
And from the window, peeking out of the blinds,
I watched them traipse down the driveway

Practically skipping, arms around each other,
Happiness b...
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Categories: somersault, daughter, first love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMillions of Bullions

...Three vaults to open, combinations memorised,
late dark night. all asleep. no one to be surprised,
plan is perfect, we are a team of seasoned three,
millions worth of bullions, rob, get away, be f...
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Categories: somersault, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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