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Child Turtle Poems

These Child Turtle poems are examples of Turtle poems about Child. These are the best examples of Turtle Child poems written by international poets.


Premium Member Turtle
slow moving reptile
lives inside leathery shell
     good pet for a child...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: turtle, childhood, fun, life, pets,



Premium Member Box Turtle
Box turtle, box turtle,
Won’t you play with me?
I found you in the shady woods
Just underneath that tree.

Box turtle, box turtle,
Won’t you come outside?
Don’t stay all...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: turtle, child, nature,

Premium Member Saving the Turtle
Heading down a not-very-busy country highway on a summer day
I saw an upside down turtle in the road and I said “Hey!
Screeched on my brakes,...

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Categories: turtle, animal,

Premium Member Myrtle the Turtle - a Nursery Rhyme
Myrtle the turtle was as slow as could be
She knew she could never climb up a tree
She knew she could never win a big race
She...

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Categories: turtle, child, nursery rhyme, poems,

Turtle and the Wintu Maiden
A beautiful Wintu girl reached puberty. Her sisters were sent to find 
maple bark to make her an apron. 

It so happened that Turtle, the...

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Categories: turtle, poetry,



Premium Member Turtle Totem
Turtle saved the world;
rescued from silver waters, deep
earth children cling
to tortoise shell,
sky woman’s
plight made right
upon turtle’s
haven.

Wizened sage
with gentle eyes,
look upon the vessel
recharging life’s cycle,
 and...

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Categories: turtle, animal, metaphor, nature, poems,

The Littlest Turtle
The littlest turtle was hatched on the beach among a batch of eggs but was left 
behind when all his brothers and sisters made it...

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Categories: turtle, change, fear, fish, prayer,

The Littlest Turtle
The littlest turtle was hatched on the beach among a batch of eggs but was left 
behind when all his brothers and sisters made it...

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Categories: turtle, change, fear, fish, prayer,

Ten Billion Turtle Doves
Thirty-seven years later glancing back across time
A child three thousand miles away from home returning
Unto the barracks his drill sargent staring into the sky, saying
I...

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Categories: turtle, baby, love,

Turtle Soup
Aunty Murtle, she was Mad,
Mamma said so all the time,
But nothing she did was quite as bad,
As when she bought turtle's home to dine.

She placed...

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Categories: turtle, animals, funny,

Turtle Talk
Hop right on my back
turtle slow and green skinned bark
A journey to tag every bit left of nature
it's something I know that you can't help...

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Categories: turtle, animals, nature, people, sad,


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