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Loggerhead Poems - Poems about Loggerhead

If Always Is As Long As Forever

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I shall love you always
though in the brief moment of that promise
I shall leave you to search and destroy the enemy
with your sweet scents of lilacs lingering on my mind
Scents buried deeply t...
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Categories: loggerhead, angst, love, war,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTurtle 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: loggerhead, animal, fun,
Form: Rhyme



Loosing Lou Sing the Damn Rumors

...Loosing (lou sing) the damn rumors...

Torpedo style full speed ahead
keeping me in suspense,
what salacious gossip
gets browned, buttered, rolled
down the alley and bred
into unsavory tidbits...
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Categories: loggerhead, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Premium MemberTaller Tales

..."Clapper Rail, Condor, 

Loggerhead Shrike and a lost,  

Whooping Crane, rarer..."

"Stop!" "Did you make the chess team?"

"No, because I am too short."...
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Categories: loggerhead, allegory, boy, father son,
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberPicking Okra Was Before Child Abuse Or I'D Rather Eat a Possum

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Picking Okra was Before Child Abuse
or
I'd Rather Eat a Possum
By: Tom Wright
8/5/00

Layers of clouds lay overhead,
perhaps a summer rain.
Though tempted to denounce,
as a child, ...
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Categories: loggerhead, child abuse, childhood, humor,
Form: Lyric



Was Kilroy Here

...There will be no carved monument
a notable nothings chisel to say “ Kilroy was here ” 
no mentions for mournful obituary
the local newspapers won’t hear

All but slow faded loggerhead
so much s...
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Categories: loggerhead, life,
Form: Free verse

Freshness, Happiness and Truthfulness

...Oh, lofty love if for you I could smile again
I’d never on you inflict further pain
Nor your love trap in my miserable chain

If only you could grant me upfront
A second chance to confront the a...
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Categories: loggerhead, poems,
Form: Free verse

African Sun

...African sun

African sun African sun,
The sun that differed
from any sun in the world.
You kill and scorch all the disable
Creatures in African world.
You're a paradigm during all
arid compli...
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Categories: loggerhead, africa,
Form: Alliteration

Constanza For a Loggerhead

...The sand is swept with gleams of light,
pale moonbeams burst where wavelets crest
about sea turtles seeking nest.

Soft seas are flat and calm tonight
beneath the light of stars; on land
she di...
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Categories: loggerhead, beach, natural disasters, nature,
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: loggerhead, allegory, emotions, fantasy, children,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNewborn Loggerhead

... Tiny sea turtle; creeps its way across white beach sands to sea.
Newly hatched reptile, learning to swim into his new life; he’s free.
One day, he will grow into a very fine loggerhead.

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Categories: loggerhead, animal, nature, poems, poetry,
Form: Sijo

Premium MemberTaste Like Chicken

...In the wee hours of the morning
When the owls and imps were upon the marsh
We would take our old pirogue and paddle into the darkness
Our intent was to catch bullfrogs but anything was game 
We were ...
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Categories: loggerhead, beautiful, childhood, water,
Form: Narrative

Peduncle Prick

...betwixt the circuitous cocoon of rose hips wrestles a world of unfathomable infamy 
induced by light and shadow murmur influences ridicules scent.

conscripted into nature's loggerhead shrike chir...
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Categories: loggerhead, beauty, change, growth, rose,
Form: Couplet

The Land Is Green

...Oh! The land is green
It bounteousness thus dissolves my spleen
When upon my chagrin 
Nature offers her shoulders for me to lean

Oh! The land is green
Each morning of greenness offers me a gleam
And...
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Categories: loggerhead, nature, seasons, me, me,
Form: Rhyme

The Edge of Extinction

...The Edge of Extinction

Silent humming birds
Great ocean whales
Deep unknown rain forests
Dark eyed Polar Bears
Ancient Loggerhead turtles
Ivory tusked Elephants

North American Indians
Esk...
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Categories: loggerhead, animals, loss, nature, people
Form: Free verse

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