"somersault" poems
Sprawl of the nazarene toothslayer,
Nucleotide bombast explosion;
***** of the eftsoon soothsayer,
Pyramid galaxies implosion:
Breathing quintuplicating matrix
Somersault to ceaseless meiosis,
Goldbeating phlanx initiatrix:
Amphimixis apotheosis.
Lifen gyrovagues aerolitic:
And fixate Atlas telescopic!
May 17, 2014
May 17, 2014 at 10:55 AM UTC
There's a city glowing in my ears,
biting blur of the nightlife.
Figure I've been here for a while.
My supplies were piled high,
now they're in short supply
and I'm high.
The walls of my
apartment are red.
I wait until the streetlights
flick on before I flip into a
somersault, I wait until the
streetlights flick on before
I call you out tonight.
The walls of my
apartment are red.
Dead presidents, don't
answer for me,
I paint the walls red.
Dead presidents couldn't have
seen it coming,
I paint the walls red.
Dead precedents, don't correct me.
Could have been a fool,
could have been a rule
you didn't know, so
when your friends are
wrong sing a song that
won't offend anyone.
You kept me waiting for hours,
you were shining. In a dress like
blood and flowers, you were shining.
You better sell it hard tonight.
The walls of my
apartment are red.
Mar 16, 2011
Mar 16, 2011 at 8:55 AM UTC
The non-planet, poor Pluto,
Circling far out and forgotten,
I cast my thoughts around you,
Knowing you are like many here,
Too insignificant to be noticed,
And yet, still worthwhile, for sure.
I caress the cold of Neptune,
Her super speed winds whip by,
She has no thought for me, too busy,
As is her sister, Uranus, circling,
Unaware that I, or others, even exist,
Yet, we are made of the same stuff,
Stardust, so exotic, so varied; so us.
My thoughts come leaping back,
Arcing around the rings of Saturn,
Slipping between sparkling icy dust,
Navigating the dark reaching fingers,
Stretching impassively from their host,
Guiding my eye to the little moons,
Knowing that life might thrive there.
I somersault away to King Jupiter,
He used to wander, he battled hard,
Casting out the rogue gas giant,
Clearing the way for the rocky worlds,
Giving life to us all, before drifting back,
Cajoled by Saturn, his anger still rages,
The red spot storm churning, his moons,
Observing, as Jupiter takes on all comers.
And we, the rocky four, so grateful,
As Jupiter snaffles the debris, holds it,
Or hurls it away, so we live, we learn,
Our inner sisters too hot, brother Mars,
Too cold, for now, but one day, yes,
As we begin to bake, Mars awaits,
To welcome us for a million years, or so,
A blink of an eye, universally speaking,
But home has hope, hope offers life,
Unlike our unwanted distant cousin,
The non-planet, poor Pluto.
©Paul M Chafer 2015
Apr 5, 2015
Apr 5, 2015 at 8:58 AM UTC
Do not fall inlove with a writer
they see and feel everything.
particles that somersault in the morning ray telling them to embrace the day
They can smell the haunting
aroma of a coffee
whispers 'go grab your pen and write'
they look into a person's eyes
and could witness
how a sea crash into someone's soul
Do not fall inlove with a writer
they appreciate and value everything you do
they could see the entire universe
from your smile
only the ocean could tell
their hopes and fears.
They easily fall and break too hard.
Don't fall inlove with a writer
they'll make you their muse
from good times to bad times,
you will be the lyrics of their song.
Feb 18, 2016
Feb 18, 2016 at 5:27 PM UTC
"You are old, Father william," the young man said,
"And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head--
Do you think, at your age, it is right?
"In my youth," Father William replied to his son,
"I feared it might injure the brain;
But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again."
"You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before,
And you have grown must uncommonly fat;
Yet you turned back a somersault in at the door--
Pray, what is the reason of that?"
"In my youth," said the sage, as he shook his gray locks,
"I kep all my limbs very supple
By the use of this ointment--one shilling a box--
Allow me to sell you a couple."
"You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak
For anything tougher than suet;
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak--
Pray, how did you manage to do it?"
"In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law,
And argued each case with my wife;
And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
Has lasted the rest of my life."
"You are old," said the youth, "one would hardly suppose
That your eyes was as steady as ever;
Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose--
What made you so awfully clever?"
"I have answered three questions, and that is enough,"
Said his father; "don't give yourself airs!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or I'll kick you downstairs!"
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My dear one is mine as mirrors are lonely,
As the poor and sad are real to the good king,
And the high green hill sits always by the sea.
Up jumped the Black Man behind the elder tree,
Turned a somersault and ran away waving;
My Dear One is mine as mirrors are lonely.
The Witch gave a squawk; her venomous body
Melted into light as water leaves a spring,
And the high green hill sits always by the sea.
At his crossroads, too, the Ancient prayed for me,
Down his wasted cheeks tears of joy were running:
My dear one is mine as mirrors are lonely.
He kissed me awake, and no one was sorry;
The sun shone on sails, eyes, pebbles, anything,
And the high green hill sits always by the sea.
So to remember our changing garden, we
Are linked as children in a circle dancing:
My dear one is mine as mirrors are lonely,
And the high, green hill sits always by the sea.
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**Long brown dream
her legs akimbo
apex flushed dark
arms bowed at hip
******* accusing
Breathless, the
******* seesaw
tight curls crown
angry beauty
teeth blaze hot
golden eyes
spit hate
spinning slowly left
proudly curved
bending exposed
face framed a
toppled heart
lips lick entice
three rising paces
the suite bar
long fingers reach
the glass held
waist high
pivoting back
all swift motion
a somersault roll
landing grinning
******* bouncing
a silent scream
lashes out blinding
red wine**
*All loves promises
tumbling bouncing emotion
an ****** spite*
**leaving me
naked rivoletto
sashed red
seeing blurred
ghostly negatives
of forever young
screaming
bouncing *******
I say “Goodbye
true love” to
the tall glass
on the bar
my coat and
open door
to the
clothe strewn
bedroom**
*Clothed party act
a pint spinning somersault
quaffed down brim full*
May 14, 2010
May 14, 2010 at 5:11 AM UTC
Rancor,
Swashbuckling with a sawtooth grin and sacrilegious shouts, selcouth with an unsound mind, the commonness of uniqueness, the commonness of opinionated onions cutting their teeth on life and crying, again, and ready to saw off the limbs of the opposition out of revenge!
Rancor, relax, you're not a Twitter matador, I wish you were because I’d love to watch the show.
We cuddle with exotic nylon fibers and squeal about our weight and status and how someone insulted us and how terrible it is to be alive while sipping on easily accessibly high fructose corn syrup! Life has never been this sweet, but I guess we’re getting sick of honey.
I complain about the complaints, I am the anti-complaining complaint club president.
I am a writer, an iPhone thumb tapper.
Hear me
These mental gymnastics will somersault and summerset you right, child,
Don’t listen to Rancor,
That man’ll grab your gaze and stir your attention into a cocktail while winking at you from behind the bar
he’ll leave your brain a little woozy from a life that used to be sweet until you left it out in the sun a few years too long,
I wonder if some of the dead watch us from the corners of our bedroom or the trees along the freeway, waiting for greatness to unfurl.
I’ll bet they do and I’ll bet you’re a glitch, I’ll bet a little piece of another galaxy hit you in the head and made your finger twitch.
How many hot car hours have been spent in a parking lot,
the skin dries, the phone dies,
the spirit once lifted towards the outlines of the mountain peak now seeks memes, transcendent in their own right.
May 12, 2022
May 12, 2022 at 1:54 AM UTC
BULL FIGHTING
(WITH A CLASSICAL TOUCH)
* By Raj Nandy*
(I)
The Minoan Civilization of ancient Greece,
Was well centered in the Aegean island of Crete;
And around 1600 BC this civilization had peaked!
Seeing their frescoes, and paintings on potteries
and vase,
Scholars concluded that ‘bull-jumping’ was
perfected as a gallant art!
Those jumpers grabbed the bull’s horns, -
And receiving momentum from its violent
head-jerk,
Vaulted over its back in a somersault,
To land on both feet to break their fall!
I was spell bound by Minoans courage and agility,
Their acrobatic feats performed with such
dexterity!
Those bulls were not killed and no blood was shed,
Some acrobats might have been injured instead!
What a shame for our bull fighters of date!
(II)
Today bull fighting has become a popular sport,
Where the bull gets slaughtered amidst loud applaud!
I recall those Roman amphitheaters that remained
jam-packed,
When the Gladiators performed their fatal acts!
But even those Gladiators had a chance to survive,
Our cornered bull has no place to hide!
Friends, to see blood is an age old thrill,
But none would like to see their own blood spilled!
(III)
Our Matador today is like a popular Rock Star,
While the bull becomes a martyr in the pit by far!
The bull’s mighty horns are sharp and strong,
Can lift up a man like a rag doll!
But when the Picador lances the bull’s ****
The bull never gets a fair deal and jumps!
Next the Matador waves his ‘muleta’- a red cape,
The bull makes a final charge but cannot escape!
I wonder if the bull sees red!?
The Matador then amidst much pomp and applaud,
Spikes the neck severing the bull’s spinal cord!
He is greeted by flowers and cheers of ‘Ole’! ‘Ole’!
Let us learn from those Ancient Minoans, -
That's all I have got to say!
- by Raj Nandy
Oct 12, 2014
Oct 12, 2014 at 9:28 AM UTC
We draw hearts to say
I am in love with you
when love disappoints, we say
I am heartsick
when we fall deeply, we say
My heart did a slow somersault
when we know that the heart
is a drum, a pendulum, a clock.
On good days, it is a sundial
but it is always
just a timekeeper, the
tick
tick
tick
of minutes and seasons,
but never
forevers.
Jan 20, 2011
Jan 20, 2011 at 5:52 PM UTC
Initial day at uni.
Took a little stumble.
As down the road I rumbled.
World of study.
Well thought out.
Off my bike I tumbled.
Over the handlebars.
In front of the cars.
A not amusing somersault.
It really wasn’t funny.
My humerus, got broke
Not at all amusing,
Certainly no joke.
Not a funny bone to break.
University was no ball.
Off to uni.
Arm in cast.
In front of the others.
What a giggle.
Trainee nurse in pyjamas.
Battle of the one armed fly.
Impossibly undone!
By ladylivvi1
© 2014 ladylivvi1 (All rights reserved)
Jan 13, 2014
Jan 13, 2014 at 4:08 PM UTC
Yes I remember
that night
in midwinter,
the one
that we burned
on the hill,
and the moon
and the stars
and the
somersault sparks
and wanting
it all
to stay still,
and yes I remember
the warmth
of the embers
and daring
the future
with hope
at the
very same time
your fingers
touched mine
as softly as if
they were smoke.
Dec 5, 2014
Dec 5, 2014 at 2:22 PM UTC
You can twist
My heartstrings
In a somersault display
Spiral through my being
Fill me with your rays
You can flood my soul
Hold me in your beam
I am but a shooting star
In your gravity
.....
Dec 1, 2017
Dec 1, 2017 at 6:42 AM UTC
Do not fall inlove with a writer
they see and feel everything.
particles that somersault in the morning ray telling them to embrace the day
They can smell the haunting
aroma of a coffee
whispers 'go grab your pen and write'
they look into a person's eyes
and could witness
how a sea crash into someone's soul
Do not fall inlove with a writer
they appreciate and value everything you do
they could see the entire universe
from your smile
only the ocean could tell
their hopes and fears.
They easily fall and break too hard.
Don't fall inlove with a writer
they'll make you their muse
from good times to bad times,
you will be the lyrics of their song.
Mar 26, 2017
Mar 26, 2017 at 10:17 AM UTC
with a lilt and a tilt
Ha, I shall go the while
roving over bush and meadows
with a hop and a jump
like a kangaroo
I’ll be away the while
avoiding the roads
with a zzzzz and bzzzzz
like a busy bee
I’ll fly the while
over flowers and gardens
and the free open space
with a bounce and a quiet look
I’ll crawl and hide
in quiet burrows the while
like introduced rabbits
chased by farmers
and with a swing and a flip
a light somersault in the air
I’ll be back before you can say:
“dolphins and whales”
with a lilt and a tilt
Ha, I shall go the while
roving over bush and meadows
Oct 12, 2010
Oct 12, 2010 at 2:41 PM UTC
Fluffy kitten love smitten fighting over milk
Itching finger on them linger cuddly glossy silk
Ocean blue eyes love undisguised seven heaven’s glow
Oh God be broad see they do not quickly enough grow.
On the cushion mischief mission ripping pillow part
Though it demand can’t raise hand cruel is not heart
Indulgent look mildly rebuke faked in anger’s voice
Watching them mad in game is heavenly rejoice.
One on other sister brother dizzying somersault
If the vase is broken surely not for their fault
Sing lullaby show the TV sleep is far away
Make the pretense all nonsense but a playful day.
Again a boy lovingly toy tender tiny paw
They’re too smart never do hurt haven’t grown a claw
Frolic funny keep time runny feel the silence deep
Comes when night robs the delight weary bodies sleep.
Feb 20, 2014
Feb 20, 2014 at 7:11 AM UTC
*
MY head wants me to live
My heart wants me to LOVE
Such are the inner conflict of TIME
Ultimately I let go - such is your POWER of LOVE
And I let myself float in YOUR inner-SOUL
I am a feather in your breeze
Flying, soaring, twisting, twirling
Within your inner COSMIC womb
I let go and let myself tumble
I am a child - YOUR child of LOVE
Somersault, tumble, get up & smile
I let go and let myself wander
I am a wanderer, in your wanderlust
I am lost in your - deep ocean & forest...
I let go and let myself dissolve
I am drowned, dissolved in YOUR being
Soaked, drenched, disappeared within YOU
I let go and let YOUR LOVE evoke
My insatiable desires of LOVE
There is a thunder-storm within me
YOU have successfully ignited
With your illuminating eyes of LOVE-soul
Your LOVE catches the edges of my eyes
And drops down like dew on your flower petals
What else I need in life than YOU?
Only if YOU are with me
I will be completely fine
WE WILL BE "COMPLETE"
What else I want in life?
YOU- your existence besides me
That is what I was born to seek - !
YOU always share only little bit of YOU
With your cryptic notes
To keep me engaged in a guessing game
YOU enjoy my plight in your LOVE-longing pain
YOUR naughtiness is going to **** me one day
Do not let our time of LOVE run out
I am trying my best
I am spinning the whole galaxy
With the power of your LOVE
Yesterday night, you came,
And did not let go of me
Everyday YOU leave your whispers
And scent around me
But when I open my eyes - you are gone
LOVE without YOU is no life to live at all
How will the rainbow breathe LOVE colors
Without our eternal LOVE?
How will the flowers adorn LOVE colors
Without our TRUE PURE LOVE?
How will anyone live without colors?
Oh...has anyone seen DEAD colors?
Life without LOVE is just like
Seeing dead colors around us
The colors we see everyday
Without LOVE in our heart
Those colors do not carry
The ONE SOUL we share
with OUR LOVE colors
*
Oct 23, 2018
Oct 23, 2018 at 11:55 PM UTC
*I was born from a farthest star
where beauty and shattered lights
sprinkled all over the place
i touched the glass of gold crystals,
they are soft and silky
that I can glide and say 'weee!'
The strand of my hair goes
to slow motion
as I somersault into the air
The giant moon illuminates
from sight
he yawns as I wave
and gave a sweet smile
I can hear the words
'Dream, Dream, Dream'
echoes from his mind
I close my eyes and feel the warmth
of the stars embrace
'Dream, Dream, Dream' whispers from the
billion celestial of the night
I find happiness in an endless tranquil space.*
Aug 15, 2015
Aug 15, 2015 at 12:42 AM UTC
Overpowering urges self destruction
numbness c ra cks and reseals
deep
trenches
cut out
in the shape of your name
The feeling's queasy
somersault through my
twisted veins
blind rage encapsulated by a sad
blackened
frame
Bruises and scars fade
but the coursing
pain will
forever remain
a dark
heavy trotting
reign
Horse hooves crater my heart
collision beat
of a marching bands feet
my heart
my heart
is screaming in the dark
the shadow slightly falls
my heart
my heart
Inject your unknowing poison
I feel the sting
as it rips fire to my insides
your hands leave chemical burns
as you squeeze my lungs
I fall to my knees
weakness writhes in numb defeat
pull the tide
hold it in my hands
sending it crashing
to wash over you again
That's when I first tasted the burn of this world
the bitter taster of disappointment
the stabbing of my heart
the waterfalls of sorrow
My eyes have died
their light no longer lives
I shrivel and crumble
with a slow
dull
ache
I do not scream out
destroy my sand castles
burn my bridges
knock my buildings down
dynamite love
dynamite love
I wander with a brain blown to bits
I scavenge every
scrap
of m u t ilated so-called-love
I am dynamite
you are matches
all that stood between us
was a wick of string
and time.
Feb 17, 2014
Feb 17, 2014 at 1:05 AM UTC
Spotlight on the windy mistress
Her pirouettes stir petals
Leaves rise and fall at every somersault
Impressing the seven devils
Each one malefic in a different sense
Eloquent in a heavy mist
They allude at their brethren sins
Blight corrodes a suggestive audience
Death’s caress plays maestro in the sound check
When the carrion pick sinner from the jest of what’s left
Our windy mistress will play tribute
To the harlequin slaughter
Dec 28, 2012
Dec 28, 2012 at 8:53 AM UTC
"where day is.... dreams of a summer sky."
i.
the sky floats up,
gazing out with lips
of steel, a
shiny branch
surrendering
to summer’s sigh,
her iris a cats
eye, marble blue,
her pupil a dark
wand.
ii.
play with me,
draw me out of the
dark,
let me sing to
you a sea-song
where the waves
somersault and
crash to the shore,
where the wind, wild
as wild, faints to breathe
the wakening sky.
iii.
see how i write in passages,
faint-waves of
summer’s mists where
the rain dips her pen in
the grey-ink cloud.
iv.
searching for your ghosts,
the deep whirling of the streamy sea
with its wine-red roses like
coloured glass
dance as i gather
whispers of strangeness
and sun, blossoming,
shrink-edged like an
opalescent pool, all
of it, you.
v.
days of watery rags and rubber
tyres, red snake of
summer’s ribs, the
stones of the stormy sun,
gathering the landscape
where tonight the
moon will rise for love
you will loosen my hair
and i will kiss your throat.
Aug 12, 2017
Aug 12, 2017 at 1:55 PM UTC
the soul of birds
shall dip
their wings
in the
holy light
swoop
bounce
somersault
from
the
sky
trampoline
Aug 1, 2015
Aug 1, 2015 at 6:56 PM UTC
The water is black
late night of a new moon.
I dive into it
swim underwater
away from the fire
and drunken noise
my heart beating hard
at odds
with the cold silence.
I scream ---
mostly bubbles
and a mouthful of salt
I gag and surface.
"Open your eyes underwater!"
you scream from the shore
"There's phosphorescence!"
I open them for the first time
in salt water
and see the algae lit
a tunnel curved in my hands
I do a somersault
then float
knees pressed to chest
blowing light bubbles.
I get back
no towel, sand in my pants
huddled by the fire
I press you close,
But your head is
bent, away
"I can't love you"
you mumble to my chest
squeezing harder.
Nov 30, 2010
Nov 30, 2010 at 10:16 PM UTC
I want to write a happy poem
With smile from ear to ear
the sort that makes your cheeks hurt
Usually caused by some one dear.
A poem that makes;
The Butterflies fly
and your tummy somersault
Eutrophia making you high.
Using words to melt hearts
Instead of tearing them apart.
Jan 15, 2015
Jan 15, 2015 at 4:22 PM UTC