Best Sea Turtle Poems

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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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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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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hatchlings in the sand 
the bale has a life at sea 
birth-return to sand...

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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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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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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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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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My father hauled a dead sea turtle
     from a beach in the Florida Keys
       ...

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"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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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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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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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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 Tiny sea turtle; creeps its way across white beach sands to sea.
Newly hatched reptile, learning to swim into his new life; he’s free.
One day,...

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To the naked eye all you can see,
is the breakers coming ashore individually,
but as I dive in one of them and start to tread,
my imagination...

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I am the gold fish
Swimming in the pond

I am the blue bullfrog
Bellowing in the pond

I am the yellow tadpole
Feeding in the pond

I am the fluorescent...

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Life is so different in the islands

Slow moving beauty beyond just the earth

Wailing  waves climb like a roller coaster, pleading for surfers

On the North Shore,...

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The Extinction of the Sea Turtles

By Elton Camp

Human villainy is a cause for alarm
It causes much environmental harm

If the sea turtle should become extinct
To deliberate...

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I am nothing...nothing...nothing
I am nothing but human
just an ordinary human
I can't whistle, perform great feats of strength
I have noddle arms at best
Magic eludes me like...

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Spanish moss draping old oaks
Sea bird sanctuaries with lookout platforms
Storks, pelicans and seagulls cry for attention
Hammerhead sharks cruise the Gulf Stream

Hurricane-vulnerable, small cottages
Home to stock...

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Do you have any idea how much “doo” a giant sea turtle can do?
How much tortoise “surprise” it can present to you?

You think cow plop...

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with thanks to the Environmental Defense Fund:

Advice from a permacultural ecosystemic:

PENGUIN

Dive into life;
Avoid undiving into dying, stagnating in reverse-time ruminations.

Appreciate days;
Depreciate decomposing night-dreams.

Take long walks
off...

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When I lost a tear in the ocean, it was gone forever. With that tear, I soared the 
darkness that the water hid. I felt...

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Where were you when the lights went out.  

In my world I work in little clumps.
Today I worked outside for instance.
I planted a few...

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