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Best Tortuga Poems


Tortuga (See Turtle-Red-Seaturtlegreen)
...He swims
in two Centuries
His cold War
of water
An Aeonor, a "one-in-a-thousander"
Survives
- BabyBoomer -
Slowmotioning poisemass
Ballet-imposing-intrepid
like a colossal Pet!

Above & below
Fouled
by plastic Jellyfish, sets 'n nets, 
Toxoids & the toxicrowdy polluted 
"Men-O'-War"
on His Time.

The 5,200 RPM Priapus Phallus, &
Unpainless, murdermessed Terrapin
Carapace shelled & felled 
from His Home of...

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Categories: tortuga, animals, death, nature, sad,
Form: Free verse
Tortuga
The isle beguiles as it floats, near-distant
on smooth sea miles, that invite a look-see
Rising serene, it draws the innocent ~	

The glassy calm’s ultimate sophistry
underlying treacherous depths that grasp
Gushing light, colors, and dark mystery ~

another farer sighs an abyssal gasp


8/21/21 –...

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Categories: tortuga, ocean,
Form: Terza Rima

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