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Best Snapping Turtle Poems

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Premium Member Snapping Turtle
the snapping turtle
wandering around asphalt
confuses my dog...

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Categories: snapping turtle, usa,
Form: Haiku



Snapper Soup
Turtle soup to some is a sumptuous, sweet stew
Full of flavor, a favorite of families, not a few

Formed from the flesh of fresh turtle, so...

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Categories: snapping turtle, artsweet, sweet,
Form: Couplet
The Pond
During our time spent in old Blue
There was a pond up the road
That we liked to go to
Didn’t matter if it was hot or froze
When...

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Categories: snapping turtle, childhood, family, places, time,
Form: I do not know?
My Own Private Canterbury
When we retired we were so inspired:
To live free and rest from our labors.
This mobile home park has lived up to the mark,
But oh, goodness...

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Categories: snapping turtle, humorous, retirement,
Form: Limerick
Animals Tha I See
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Categories: snapping turtle, animals, nature
Form: Haiku



In Memory of Koi
Claw needed to heal
A brownish snapping turtle
Ate up Momma’s koi...

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Categories: snapping turtle, animals, pets
Form: Haiku
Ice Cycle
Who could prepare for madness
As i embrace the moment it's like magic
Hocus-pocus the devil wants to snag me
In the traps he sets for the chosen...

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Categories: snapping turtle, magic,
Form: Free verse
The Old Pond
An old pond full of plops 
with jumping fish and Bobber drops
From my pole, As I cast a line
I sit to watch the clouds blow...

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Categories: snapping turtle, nature, water,
Form: Rhyme
Last Night With Gucci
Dark serene
Alone and together
My world in chaos
Vocational anxiety
Financial sobriety
Yet all matters not
As I look to my right
Gaze at my Gucci
Amazed by her will
Her zest for...

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Categories: snapping turtle, dog, eulogy, farewell, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Red and Trueblue Family--2
My dear Siblings,

I voted for Hillary. 
I would have preferred Bernie, 
but she agreed to much of his platform-especially universal health care and education and...

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Categories: snapping turtle, america, caregiving, health, humanity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Black Rail
Do you hear the devil's laughter?
low within the marsh waters
rustling high the tree tops
Answer not with prayer
but within a smirk of doubt
Don't tilt the boat...

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Categories: snapping turtle, bird, nature, water, youth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Wade Into the Prairie
I wade into my creek...
I wade into the Prairie
Crayfish scuttle about my feet
I can feel its slippery algaed rocks
slide perilously under my feet.

The sun is...

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Categories: snapping turtle, introspection, life, natureme,
Form: Pastoral
Premium Member Country Lane
I peer back thro' the mists of time and view a country lane,
That meanders thro' the woods and across the Hoosier plain.
I see a country...

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Categories: snapping turtle, childhood
Form: Rhyme
Prose Poems
Prose Poems

Something
by Michael R. Burch

Something inescapable is lost?lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight, vanishing in a gust of wind toward...

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Categories: snapping turtle, animal, child, childhood, children,
Form: Prose
Premium Member A Summers' Day In Florida
The lake shimmers in the early breeze 
Dancing rivulets of light kissed by the rising sun,
Reflecting passing clouds hopscotching with such ease
It heralds a new...

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Categories: snapping turtle, appreciation, beauty, bird, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things