Somersaults Poems - Poems about Somersaults

Baby Steps

...I'll take them one by one
Won't think too far ahead
Day by day until that day
When someday's here, instead 
When someday's now today
When waiting is no more 
When baby steps turn somersaults
I...

The Lighter Side of Antisemitism

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     For those who want to ‘kill all the Jews’
        Here’s some food for thought

     Get a rabbi to extend Passover one more week
        You’ll love what will have been wrought

     ...

The Backstroke of Bitter Tears

...I dove into the deep end, headfirst, quite a splash,
Not of the pool, you see, but grief's enormous gash.
It’s Olympic-sized, this sorrow, chlorinated blue,
And I’m the sole competitor, with nothi...

13th November

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A dandelion seed ball -
how fragile it is floating 
the still air. I reach out
but it somersaults 
in the disturbance 
of my moving hand. 
I want to hold it 
but it keeps floating away. 

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B-cup Collecting Tips on the Southeast

...the city's sick scar, fuels my descent, into this abyss, where twisted creatures writhe, in the darkness. cyclops with one eye, on the ball, three-headed puppies, sealed behind glass, strippers selli...

Summer Quatrains

...Summer Quatrains – Swap Quatrains 6-19-24
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Summer Quatrains

Silk ribbons of ice melt into wellsprings
With jubilant serenades, heartfelt,
Frozen...

Yesterday's Wishes

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Without sugar, I'll sip on my espresso
I can still taste yesterday's sweetness

We abandoned yesterday's mistakes, worries, and despair
all money in the world cannot resuscitate yesterday
ou...

Somersaults On the Trampoline

...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,  mus...

SIT-UPONS

...Sit-upons that we wove together.
The troop activity. How many spots
will remember me?

The wicker basket and picnic blanket
woven into the amphitheatre. We,
my hubby and I,
cozied up, listened...

Death Fish in Key West

...Scientists describe it as an event
In the hot paradise of Key West

Condos festivals hotels
Dancing feet under bells of lights
I’ve sung Margaritaville there
Myself

Beneath the docks

Pan ...

Winter Light

...Winter Light 1-25-24
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Winter Light

Winter light streaks through trees
Laughs in games of freeze tag
Plays “catch me, if you can.”
Somersaults t...

Nineteenth Century Meets Twenty-first

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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'...

My New Years Resolutions

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            “Never leave your purse lying around and be glad he still 
             remembers who you are.”                                                       
                                ...

artic somersaults

...artic somersaults 11-30-23
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artic somersaults

arctic colors bluster
 gossamer rainbow ripples ~
  northern lights fanfare
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Cosmic Stoicism: a Carnival of Absurd Wisdom

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In stoic carnival, emotions juggle,
laughter somersaults on a tightrope of reason.
Epictetus, ringmaster, dons a clown's nose,
philosophy as whimsical sideshow.

Stoicism, circus tent of parad...

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