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Best Sea Turtle Poems

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Premium Member Giant Sea Turtle Saved the Day
The giant sea turtle saved the day by being the ride for many.
He rescued a pelican, a cat, a penguin and a dog named Penny.
Their...

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Categories: sea turtle, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme



Green Sea Turtle
The sea unleashes its children green 
seeking a sandy shielded defense and 
swimming wings for legs, scraping 
their way from seaweed waters at low 
tide...

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Categories: sea turtle, animal,
Form: Free verse
My Green Sea Turtle
wonderful slick shell,
Brown and golden, the color of a shell.
That perfect shaped shell.
The shell of my turtle i know too well.

You are the greenest.
The most...

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Categories: sea turtle, humor,
Form: Free verse
Sea Turtle
Small, beautiful face stares up at me
When did you become so exquisitely you (so entirely other than me)?
I've spent my life consumed in myself
You, the...

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Categories: sea turtle, depression, friendship, introspection, sister,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sea Turtle
hatchlings in the sand 
the bale has a life at sea 
birth-return to sand...

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Categories: sea turtle, life,
Form: Haiku



The Green Sea Turtle
When you meet
a green sea turtle
be ready for  
the beans;
 so if
you get beaten, 
you will get eaten...

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© P Soe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sea turtle, animals, childhood, children, nature,
Form: Verse
Sugar Shack
My love, please take me back
To your sweet sugar shack 
Sitting on the soft sand beach
Paradise is within reach

Rolling waves crest, so dreamy
Briny air, wafting...

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Categories: sea turtle, ocean, paradise, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Constanza For a Loggerhead
The sand is swept with gleams of light,
pale moonbeams burst where wavelets crest
about sea turtles seeking nest.

Soft seas are flat and calm tonight
beneath the light...

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Categories: sea turtle, beach, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Rhyme
God's Majestic and Wide
God's Majestic and Wide

        Breathe in an ocean so vast and so grand where seagulls and seashells sprinkle...

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Categories: sea turtle, appreciation, blessing, christian, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Gutting
My father hauled a dead sea turtle
     from a beach in the Florida Keys
       ...

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Categories: sea turtle, boy, childhood, family, father,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Freedom Sees - Part 2
"Freedom Sees - Part 2"

Platoon magic legion
Hammerheads
beautiful, graceful escorts
leading the way
hear their call, silently swishing
dorsal fins
cutting through the 
fall-out murky pall,
they need no 
blood and...

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Categories: sea turtle, adventure, daughter, freedom, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Waiting For the Sunrise
Waiting for the Sunrise

Mystery lies in the grains of sand
As they are washed upon the shore,
Life’s hourglass has turned the page
And the sun goes down...

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Categories: sea turtle, beach, beautiful, moon, peace,
Form: Rhyme
The Boy Who Swallowed the Sea
I once had a friend
who swallowed the sea,
with a thirst so great
it was awesome to see.

Gulping down water,
in large mouthfuls he drank.
Then into the sea,
I...

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Categories: sea turtle, child, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Glimpse of Hawaii
A tunnel of branches with leafy green shade
Arc over the winding quiet road
On our windward island’s side
Heading toward the north shore
Where giant waves treat surfers
To...

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Categories: sea turtle, nature, placessea, green, sea,
Form: Free verse
Before & After the Lull
Amber-brown sea oats stand tall -
whistling as ocean breezes gently 
blow them in unchartered directions
Voluminous waves impact into jetty rocks
inducing sea urchins to lose their...

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Categories: sea turtle, seasea, sea,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs