Long Tortoise Poems
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Childhood Dreams Part 1When I was a child
Everything was magical
Full of mystery and the unknown
I read hundreds of books
The library my haven
My home
Hours upon hours
Night and day
I read and got lost in text
They supplied me with adventures
Secret journeys
Fun...
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Categories:
tortoise, childhood, cinderella, dream, fairy,
Form:
Free verse
Zen Death Haiku IiToday, catching sight of the mallards
crying over Lake Iware:
Must I too vanish into the clouds?
—Prince Otsu translation by Michael R. Burch
This world—
to what may we compare it?
To autumn fields
lying darkening at dusk
illuminated by...
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Categories:
tortoise, death, imagery, life, nature, symbolism, visionary, world,
Form:
Haiku
How Huxley Sees the World
"How Huxley Sees the World"
He composes his world -
dream extractions
simulated from
the surreal reality of man
colour cognitive from the dead moments
we phantomise to life in sleep
electric light colour bursts forth
from a perspective unique
a hare...
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Categories:
tortoise, art, future, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
This Is No FableI was relaxing in my sunroom, one very peaceful afternoon,
Enjoying the fables of Aesop, and all the flowers abloom.
The view from the many windows, was gold sunshiny delight,
With blossoms and rich greenery, and many birds...
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Categories:
tortoise, adventure, animal, fantasy, flower, imagery, life, tree,
Form:
Couplet
Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter SolsticeGroundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice
Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted
to post poem acknowledging
the second of February,
where eponymous groundhog
gets his (most often male)
foretelling...
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Categories:
tortoise, adventure, america, animal, celebration, confidence, february, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog DaySunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day
Location: Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. First held on February 2, 1887 prognosticating how many more weeks of winter weather without a shadow of a doubt. Aforementioned site chosen for...
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Categories:
tortoise, adventure, animal, anniversary, birth, february, immigration, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Far Away, Far AwayFar Away, Far Away
Children when you dream at night you may see an awesome sight!
Magic fairies in the dew near trilliums of snow white hue.
You must search within your dreams by the light of midnight...
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Categories:
tortoise, childhood, fairy, fantasy, imagery, nature, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Rhyme
Babylonia : Part Two - Noahs WalkBabylonia : Part Two -
Noah’s walk
Pandas chew bamboo, while you film them in the nude;
Red Elephants are extinct (Apart from a view).
Fly up high, escape the zoo’s!
The latest attraction is a Man named Hu.
Hu Man?...
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Categories:
tortoise, animal, food, humanity, paradise,
Form:
I do not know?
Speechless Spoken Word ArtisteSPEECHLESS SPOKEN WORD ARTISTE
So if my vocal folds can’t collaborate to produce sounds to communicate loudly to your beautiful mind that I have an endless mission of loving you, can’t there be any mere articulation...
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Categories:
tortoise, art, beauty, emotions, humor, i love you,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Goodbye Miss Heidi Only For NowGoodbye Miss Heidi Only For Now…….8.3.14
Remembering that day I first brought you home the sun was out a warm July day, meowing never stopped on your first ride to your new home, waiting
Seeing you the...
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Categories:
tortoise, addiction, adventure, anxiety, art, beautiful, best friend,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Eyes That Look Are Many Eyes That See Are Few
" You saw my tomorrow, seated on your yesterday's laps,
Dirty-duty rusty and arrogance humming,
Bathing in the smokes of marijuana, basking it malodor,
Yet, you didn't bother to wash me your words of corrections.
Did...
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Categories:
tortoise, bereavement, death, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Weird Fake NewsWeird "fake" news
This pencil necked geek
did hair thru the long grapevine
actually following false tidbit
originated within imagination i.e. mine,
while stationed at Macbook Pro
laptop - time already inching close
to hour of rise and shine
yikes still no bloody...
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Categories:
tortoise, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, grave,
Form:
Free verse
Phi Poetry of Reality In Dream
"I have seen and heard the vibrancy of dreams,
and the way
of the crossings-through the ills
and through the barriered things."
A fleeting spark that perceives,
I, have seen...
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Categories:
tortoise, art,
Form:
Rhyme
Perfect NightmareI can't believe my eyes and how time flies
You hit me with the truth behind the lies
I had enough of your foolish shenanigans
You're like a sink full of dishes and pans
You're my oh oh
You're my...
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Categories:
tortoise, deep, emotions,
Form:
Lyric
Saturday StoryCabbage grew ears in a silver basin. How rare! Wow! Exclusive is extremely experienced erotic erogenous errors but tremors can often be counted in the folding, unfolding and refolding of long heavy curtains. A lengthy...
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Categories:
tortoise, allegory, allusion, animal, anniversary,
Form:
I do not know?
Finding My Inner Porpoise Rhyme SchemaShe kept TELLING,
YELLING at me,
to GO with the FLOW, to write with a GLOW. How?
My mind feels too SLOW to capture the UNDERTOW!
I try rising to the SURFACE with my VERSES. yet
I wander from PURPOSE,...
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Categories:
tortoise, change, identity, journey,
Form:
I do not know?
Ted the TortoiseTed the Tortoise told his wife he’ll nip around the block
She said if you nipped anywhere it would be quite a shock
He said I’ve got a skateboard with a power-pack on board
It’s not the latest...
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Categories:
tortoise, animal, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Rhyme
For Flesh and BloodThese were letters written in tablets of blood
We wrote the pains of yesterday today wittily
On this seaside of swaying embargo of tablets
She was the song swept in pity and cruelty
Daring the concubines that...
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Categories:
tortoise, absence, abuse, africa,
Form:
Ballad
Erinna Distaff TranslationERINNA
Erinna is widely regarded, at least by those who have read her, as second only to Sappho among the ancient Greek female poets. Little is known about her life; Erinna has been called a contemporary...
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Categories:
tortoise, child, childhood, death, death of a friend,
Form:
Free verse
Adebimpe, the African BeautyADEBIMPE
Going through this life at a frenzied pace
It's clear why we call it human race
I saw a piece of carefully gathered stardust
A desire for every parent
Adebimpe, a true definition of Omoluabi
Ornamented with great courtesy
Is she...
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Categories:
tortoise, africa, character, eulogy,
Form:
Ode
Runnerb a n g b a n g!
I couldn't believe I just fired some shots
there she laid...
belly up
counting the dust
dead...
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Categories:
tortoise, death, immigration, loneliness, murder, scary, sin, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
If Only I Could HibernateIf only
...
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Categories:
tortoise, sleep, spring, winter,
Form:
Shape
Days No Longer CountedOur days no longer counted, everyday forever blessed
Late night walks, along the beach
Trust in time to do the rest
No need to feel alone, fill your cup when it gets dry
No more sorrow or broken hearts,...
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Categories:
tortoise, best friend, cheer up, deep, emotions, friendship,
Form:
Light Verse
Zen Death Haiku IxZEN DEATH HAIKU VIII
These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku.
Since I was born,
I must die,
and so …
—Kisei (1688-1764) , loose translation/interpretation of his jisei (death poem) by...
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Categories:
tortoise, age, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst, animal, autumn,
Form:
Haiku
Average Size Non Boldface Type LongfellowsIn Times New Roman, I font
to hitch wagon to a star.
Alias Adobe Jenson Albertus Aldus here
wed Alexandria (Algerian, an all around
American Typewriter gal) scattershot
with Antiqua ancestry, she told me
after I Aster while Aurora Borealis
shimmered overhead,...
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Categories:
tortoise, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, age, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse