Best Tortoise Poems

Ocie the Ocelot liked words a lot!
As a tot, words like dot and trot hit the spot
Then, getting older, the folder on her shoulder grew bolder
What was once handy stopped ringing so dandy
Craving vocabulary candy to bandy
She sought what she ought, to form lukewarm to...

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Come wrestle with a gator!
Said the poster at the fair.
With tape around its mouth, it looked
Pathetic in its lair.

Yet in a cage adjoining it,
A tortoise ambled 'round,
Its movements sure and steady,
One foot lifting off the ground.

With claws extended, it appeared
To glide on tippy toes;
Its ancient...

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In ancient times as told in rhymes 
    there was a hero Greek
Whose mother said, “Before you’re dead 
    you should go out and seek
The glorious fame that goes with your name, 
    my dearest son...

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A stubborn old Taurus
I wish I was a tortoise

To live life at a reasonable pace

But more on topic
I'm agoraphobic

I could go out never leaving my place





05.05.18

Viv Wigley
I wish I was a - Poetry Contest...

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The tortoise walks slowly through sand
No rush, no needs to understand
All problems with humans around
Just a stop to look from a sound
Carrying curiosity....
with calm moving steps it can see
The world low to ground  where it goes,
It only carries what it knows
As the sun beats...

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To be a big tortoise, old and wise
His house is his shell and his disguise
Deliberate and quiet, he values no prize
Taking only enough to thrive and survive
War, hate, and color not seen through his eyes
We think we're smart, the old tortoise is wise.

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The load is heavy, 
for one who carries his home 
on his back, always...

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Butti the tortoise from the zoo has flown the coop

   Your brother Tutti misses you, you little poop

      On you there is a large bounty

         If found in El Paso...

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If a turtle could.
He would walk faster- maybe.
Find some dynamite....

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Dedicated to my favourite poet - Shelley

If a tortoise, if a turtle
You are never going to hurtle
Witness how your limbs are placed
Splayed east to west, all carapaced
what if some meat-eating moron,
Jonesing for a snack to gnaw on,
sees you sumo-stepping by
thinks "Hey look - a fresh...

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I ventured into us
Without any outcome in mind
I was content at the time
Happiness was the bottom line
Nothing could prepare me for this
The fire was put out of our bliss
How did we come to this
Unbearable twist
It is impossible to know
That love once did exist
Caught 
in the...

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As I pick through the cupboard and rattle each tin,
Was that a moist squeak? No, it couldn't have been.

Now I open the can as I'm preparing to savor,
the tortoise aroma and the four legged flavor.

Then I turn the can over and what's flying out?
" No!...

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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 is big? Put a cow plop on a pile of “surprise”.
You will laugh til tears come into your eyes.

In one...

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down a hilly route one huge log of wood
staring at the face both gazelle & her friend 
like a bridge of test for an old wisdom bag
then climbeth old tortoise with many a lag
struggling to smuggle his bag over the log
at last lay he beside...

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a limerick by Wayne Wysocki

The tortoise and hare had a race
But the rabbit came in second place
      So the notion that speed
      Makes the win guaranteed
Just isn't always the case....

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