Long Terrapin Poems

What is the difference between a digger, a forklift truck, a spoon, and a toaster? None. Bread slices can be carried by forklifts and bread can be dug by a digger particularly if ground. The...

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Oooh now then. Oh just wow. A scarlet salivating sentinel sentiment is wafting air at that door. Blowing. Blowing is not bubbling so do not count powder puffs or smoke globules that radiate sideways. It...

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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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Lucky is a red ear slider terrapin who currently lives with me.
For all intents and purposes, let's refer to Lucky as a she.
I named her Lucky because it was lucky that I just so happened...

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A large pile of elephant excrement is neither resembling a tortoiseshell coat or a brown handbag but playing dodge ball on a busy motorway could be considered to be akin to a wonky attic vibrating...

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Wave after wave after wave of affection,
caressing 
	  water
	         fall misty whispers 
come tenderly cascading
The tropic mountain air passes by 
		the cool seaside
with terrapin flair ...

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a title is not a teat nor a terrapin tank
The seventh pole in a cloud is swaying with the weights in a sky gymnasium. Gymnastics of giant clusters and catacombs catalogued by awesome aerodynamics of...

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A friendship so young afford the time in the eyes of a groggy old terrapin
Is warm to the forgotten touch as a single candle on a cold winter's night
A comfortable brightness in the midst of...

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Spellbinding place where rainbow water flows
Frogspawn and tadpoles such enormous change
Arcadian forest where pixie dust blows
All creatures are welcome no one estranged.

Twilight is magical what will happen?
Atmosphere filled with dire baritone croak
Whispering rustle, low-lying bracken
Fae...

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For years my father
Dug up his buddy, tilling
His garden for spring.
Never using his Roto
But, shoveling so slowly.

Dad was afraid that
His garden friend, might be hurt
By roto-tilling.
Painfully Dad partook of,
His cautious task so slowly.

You see, for...

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When i share my hopes and ambitions,she gives me a derisory laugh.
Her dereliction,as my better half,of supporting my strides,worry's me.

Not fulfilling her desiderata of comfort,sinks my ego below the sand,drags my dreams against the sylvan...

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...He swims
in two Centuries
His cold War
of water
An Aeonor, a "one-in-a-thousander"
Survives
- BabyBoomer -
Slowmotioning poisemass
Ballet-imposing-intrepid
like a colossal Pet!

Above & below
Fouled
by plastic Jellyfish, sets 'n nets, 
Toxoids & the toxicrowdy polluted 
"Men-O'-War"
on His Time.

The 5,200 RPM Priapus Phallus,...

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Quitting coffee and should it kill me
Want to say that it's been fun

Sidled up to this specific teat
Not long after my first weaning done

My body trying to clue me in
As I clung to my drug...

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The ocean’s wide the ocean deep 
and in the soup the turtle sleep.

Some live on land and we know that is true,
then we call them tortoise, land lubbers like you.

They been around a long, long,...

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The universe relentlessly expands in vicious circles, of which I move around in
Infinite regression is the mark I toe, that leads me to ecumenical emancipation
I collect neural correlates of consciousness from the stars in an...

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Let me tell you a story
One day, near summer’s end
Martha and her husband
Went canoeing with a friend

Suddenly a log’s there!
And what can Martha do?
Then she’s in the water
She tipped from her canoe

The canoe was righted
But...

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Far away from harsh reality,
Where monotony of life prevails,
Let me live in the dreamiest world,
Every moment to jump with joy,
Folding and unfolding in middle air !

Sitting on the back of giant terrapin,
Dancing to the tunes...

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