Best Terrapin Poems

Let me tell you a story
One day, near summer’s end
Martha and her husband
Went canoeing with a friend

Suddenly a log’s there!
And what can Martha do?
Then she’s in the water
She tipped from her canoe

The canoe was righted
But she’s still in the creek
“I cannot climb back in there!
Oh,...

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Boil water nice and hot;
Cut up vegetables in the pot.

Sprinkle herbs and seasoning in
Now toss in the terrapin.

Turtle soup, fresh from the sea;
Sailors’ cuisine for a century.

One more trick to make you well;
Ground up and drink the tortoise shell....

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Time flies like a fiery peregrine
infinity takes its bronze sweetened time
seeing all with the opaque eye of the terrapin.

Time is a tambourine -it has little mercy
it'll wake you from you sweetened sleep.
Infinity is the fluted buddha of compassion
the shaman of other worldly things. 
In between...

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