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Tortoise Poems - Poems about Tortoise

Tortoise Poems - Examples of all types of poems about tortoise to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for tortoise.
The ungrateful Birthday Gal
...The ungrateful Birthday gal 1.Tap, tap, tap, I watch the wax melt from my birthday candle. Decorations, people, music and cake; Cynthia helped with the food, and Elcilia to bake. I wore ......Read the rest...
Categories: tortoise, anxiety, birthday, cute, happy
Form: Free verse



Deadly sin
...Deadly sins 1. Strange, I can't recall if I had breakfast yesterday, I can remember what kind of pollens made you sneeze twice that Tuesday. If only you knew how many times I cal......Read the rest...
Categories: tortoise, anger, beautiful, confidence, loss,
Form: Free verse
On the 4th
...Went for a hike at a nature preserve And followed the trail with each lake-hugging curve. The sun dappled through as it lit up the trees As we stepped over roots, not once skinning our knees. ......Read the rest...
Categories: tortoise, family, today,
Form: Rhyme
FORGOTTEN TRADITIONS
...What happened to storytelling The late-night gatherings Around flames where stories of old Were being told? What happened to those folk songs Tales of the tortoise and the spider That taught ......Read the rest...
Categories: tortoise, 12th grade, africa,
Form: Narrative
A Rage at air
...A rage at air Poem Lionel Derbyshire A rage at air .. The fly, the sparrow, the ostrich in air collision goes .. Why all the rage .. Fly asked the sparrow Your temper is full of bad anger ......Read the rest...
Categories: tortoise, africa, anger, bird, conflict,
Form: Free verse



I Ching Hexagram
... Three coins tossed at once; each coin is given a value of 2 or 3, depending upon whether it is tails or heads, respectively. Six such tosses make the hexagram. Some fortune-tellers use an......Read the rest...
Categories: tortoise, analogy,
Form: Sonnet
Cry O Ghana
...O child of Mother Africa The tortoise is still on the road Realities cannot hold, dreams dying Hopes turn to ashes every day Cry O Ghana, O Ghana Rich and green Nation Shame and poverty clot......Read the rest...
Categories: tortoise, corruption, dark, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member best friend on his back
...Flimsy faerie rode her pet tortoise on the tips of falling leaves Dancing and hopping as joyful and excited as you please Trake, the tortoise loved having his best friend on his back They tumbled ......Read the rest...
Categories: tortoise, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tic-Tok
...Tic-Tok Oh me, oh my, How time keeps tick-tocking by! Each year shaves pounds of days off the next.And Unburdened, it races on,faster and faster yet. We say,"Wasn't it yesterday or maybe jus......Read the rest...
Categories: tortoise, death, time,
Form: Rhyme
Ready to be Swallowed
... A giant road is emerging. My sandy path is ready to be swallowed. Gambol, amble, ramble, saunter, stride… My way knows a variety of my gaits. This is a stamped path in my gene as an elep......Read the rest...
Categories: tortoise, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cloudy With a Chance of Stories
... the tortoise-shaped cloud as tall as a skyscraper and a half as wide floats slowly across blue sky with no hare-shaped cloud to race patchy cloudy sky with shapely stories to tell hare-br......Read the rest...
Categories: tortoise, fantasy,
Form: Tanka
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 s......Read the rest...
Categories: tortoise, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Juliet
...Staring out the window Shall my princess arrive around thy corner as she graced before pondering with a steadfast gaze Reluctant to depart as the Hare begins to wither the Tortoise in stride ......Read the rest...
Categories: tortoise, care, feelings, i miss
Form: Free verse
Premium Member TORTOISE AND HARE: FROM RACE TO FRIENDSHIP
... “A Tortoise and Hare decide to race. The hare is so confident in the lead that he naps while the tortoise keeps going to win.” Aesop’s Fable Learning from their practical contest H......Read the rest...
Categories: tortoise, animal, appreciation, blessing, cheer
Form: Monorhyme
Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice
...Groundhog 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 ground......Read the rest...
Categories: tortoise, adventure, america, animal, celebration,
Form: Rhyme

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