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 turtle, 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...
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Categories:
leatherback turtle, 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...
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Categories:
leatherback turtle, animal, children, fantasy, myth,
Form: Haibun
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 turtle, sea,
Form: Rhyme