Long Loggerhead Poems
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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 complicates.
You torture and wallop
By your excess heat because
We're...
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Categories:
loggerhead, africa,
Form:
Alliteration
Taste 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...
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Categories:
loggerhead, beautiful, childhood, water,
Form:
Narrative
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...
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Categories:
loggerhead, allegory, emotions, fantasy, children, hope, humor, imagination,
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,
these souffled ears dread
to hear hard boiled morsels
poached, scrambled, whipped
donning barren falsehoods
zeitgeist...
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Categories:
loggerhead, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
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 affront
I...
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Categories:
loggerhead, poems,
Form:
Free verse
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 struggling for remember me
the acquittal...
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Categories:
loggerhead, life,
Form:
Free verse
Picking Okra Was Before Child Abuse Or I'D Rather Eat a Possum
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, I would refrain.
A carpet of dust surrounds bare feet,
large drops are...
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Categories:
loggerhead, child abuse, childhood, humor,
Form:
Lyric
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
Eskimos
Australian Aboriginals
Lost South American Indians
Kiwis and Kakapo’s
Sperm whales
Blue whales
Narwhales
Killer whales
Prairies covered with Buffalo
Humpback whales
Deep forest Wolves
Ospreys...
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Categories:
loggerhead, animals, loss, nature, people
Form:
Free verse
If Always Is As Long As Forever
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 to recall
the many...
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Categories:
loggerhead, angst, love, war,
Form:
Free verse
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 the sun never...
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Categories:
loggerhead, nature, seasons, me, me,
Form:
Rhyme
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 digs an egg womb out of...
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Categories:
loggerhead, beach, natural disasters, nature, ocean, storm, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
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 chirp by forces unknown
influenced by the pestilence of greeds...
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Categories:
loggerhead, beauty, change, growth, rose, symbolism, water, women,
Form:
Couplet
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 reaches eight hundred pounds.
A leatherback whose love for jellyfish abounds.
Alligator snapping...
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Categories:
loggerhead, animal, fun,
Form:
Rhyme