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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,
...

Categories: leatherback, absence, animal, betrayal, birth,
Form: Free verse

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...

Categories: leatherback, animal,
Form: Free verse

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...

Categories: leatherback, animal, children, fantasy, myth,
Form: Haibun

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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...

Categories: leatherback, animal, fun,
Form: Rhyme

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, ...

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...

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...

Categories: leatherback, boat, creation, earth, fish,
Form: Verse

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...

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. ...

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...

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