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Leatherback Turtle
Leatherback Turtle Poems - Poems about Leatherback Turtle
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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Dana Fasciano
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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Caren Krutsinger
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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M. L. Kiser
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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Jennifer Proxenos
Categories:
leatherback turtle,
sea,
Form:
Rhyme