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Leatherback Poems - Poems about Leatherback


Leatherback Turtle
...I. The night was as thick as melted asphalt when her prehistoric form emerged like a monument in the sand and each egg that descended spiked the air with the scent of birth, sweet, pungent, ......

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Categories: leatherback, absence, animal, betrayal, birth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Choose To Be a Leatherback Sea Turtle
...If there is reincarnation and we get to choose another animal I shall come back as a leatherback turtle all humpback and proud I will be eight foot long, and weigh two thousand pounds Intimidati......

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Categories: leatherback, animal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Wee Folk of Bensham Bog
...I was once told a story, of the wee folk of Bensham Bog; they live in carved mushroom houses that are shaped like bullfrogs and they ensure the survival of creatures there. They travel in petrifie......

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Categories: leatherback, animal, children, fantasy, myth,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Turtle Mania
...Leatherback, murray river, matama Hawksbill, common musk and spiny soft shell. Loggerhead, Atlantic green, alligator snapping Turtles are we, in every country we dwell. The largest sea turtle r......

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Categories: leatherback, animal, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mertle the Turtle
...There was once a Leatherback Turtle, Who locals named ‘Mama Mertle’, She like all her relations was prehistoric, Still seen today, how euphoric, She laid many eggs in the sand, Not in the sea, ......

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Categories: leatherback, sea,
Form: Rhyme



I Wish I Weren'T a Turtle
...I WISH I WEREN’T A TURTLE by JOHN M. ARRIBAS I wish I weren’t a turtle, I’d rather be a hare I beat him every time, but no one seems to care I carry this armor plate every where I go D......

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Categories: leatherback, allegory, emotions, fantasy, children,
Form: Rhyme
Beneath the Surface
...Have you swam the forests under the seas glided it's waters wandered it's keys watched the gray giants and albino squid attached to kelp leaves sharks eggs......

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Categories: leatherback, boat, creation, earth, fish,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Essay: a Better Kind of Poetry Contest On Poemhunter
...CHALLENGE TITLE POETRY CONTEST FOR AUGUST ON POEMHUNTER.COM! 'WHY DO TURTLES CROSS THE ROAD? ' OK FOLKS! Please choose your favorite poem from those entered here and remember too to give you......

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Categories: leatherback, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Pip Pip Hurray
...Sending the tending to an unfriended ending, yet somehow suspending from rending a newly offending recommending. Logotype monotype linotype, overripe stereotype, teletyped an unripe heliotype. ......

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Categories: leatherback,
Form: Verse
Dreams' Depth
...Dream depth Dreams are the Leatherback tortoises lazing across the Caribbean’s; the blue water and columns of sun. dreams have seen the ruins, the pieces of lost cities, Atlantis; buried. Dr......

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Categories: leatherback, adventure, allegory, angst, caregiving,
Form: Free verse

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