Best Snapping Turtle Poems

the snapping turtle
wandering around asphalt
confuses my dog...

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Snapping Turtle

Brawny and mean
The reptile is seen
Oozing out of the mire
Like a prehistoric dinosaur.

The snapper stares
While smelling the air,
Keenly attentive
For lurking predators.

A thick, muscled neck
Poised to stretch
With beak agape, that says,
‘Keep your distance!’

Because it cannot retract
Its head far enough back
To protect it from its enemies
And...

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Youth's stream of dancing diamonds
a sparkling frolic without ending
a burst of naïve beauty before the fall
at the brink-the pinnacle of big dreams
youth crashes into the cold rocks below
diamonds suffocate in the dirty foam
In a flash, youth is snapping turtle old....

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Snapping turtle 

The biggest turtle in the world
was gigantic mass of being
in Galapagos they said
all this flesh and shield
was I50 years old
To think once she had been charming
helped her to find the sea
saving her from greedy birds
Lucky was the man sitting on top 
of her making funny...

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In a stream of murky waters deep,
Where secrets and shadows forever creep,
Lives a creature fierce and ancient, bold,
A guardian of tales as yet untold.

Behold the snapping turtle, wise and strong,
Her ancient shell echoing a timeless song.
With eyes like amber, full of mystic gleam,
She reigns over...

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