Best Tortoise Poems
Morris the Thesaurus TortoiseOcie 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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Categories:
tortoise, children, humor, words,
Form:
Light Verse
TortoiseCome 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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Categories:
tortoise, animals,
Form:
Rhyme
Achilles and the TortoiseIn 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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Categories:
tortoise, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
I Wish I Was a TortoiseA 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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Categories:
tortoise, animal, appreciation, introspection, mental
Form:
Rhyme
Tortoise
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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Categories:
tortoise, animal, courage,
Form:
Rhyme
The TortoiseTo 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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Categories:
tortoise, simile,
Form:
Rhyme
Home of the Tortoise (Haiku)The load is heavy,
for one who carries his home
on his back, always...
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Categories:
tortoise, animals, nature
Form:
Haiku
Butti the TortoiseButti 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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Categories:
tortoise, animals, funny
Form:
Limerick
Tortoise and the HareIf a turtle could.
He would walk faster- maybe.
Find some dynamite....
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Categories:
tortoise, black african american, fun,
Form:
Haiku
If a Tortoise, If a TurtleDedicated 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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Categories:
tortoise, animal, destiny, funny, health,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Tortured TortoiseI 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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Categories:
tortoise, change, deep, depression, emotions,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Tortoise Won Unfair. ( Or From This Soup, I Went Nuts.)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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Categories:
tortoise, animals, fantasy, funnyme,
Form:
Couplet
Tortoise DelightDo 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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Categories:
tortoise, childhoodsea, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
Old Tortoise the Wise One1
a long time ago
mother earth was beauty aglow
near our niger’s banks as top trees
were plain jungle pavements
for jumping squirrels & monkeys
on a long quest for merriments –
yea! at such a time
at the beginning of all time
lived an old graceful tortoise
amdst many a dinta, the hunter...
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Categories:
tortoise, fantasy
Form:
Rhyme
Bunny Flopa 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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Categories:
tortoise, humor, humorous, race,
Form:
Limerick