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Short Tortoise Poems

Short Tortoise Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Tortoise by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Tortoise by length and keyword.


Braking
car horns. . .
I brake
for another tortoise...

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Categories: tortoise, animal, appreciation, car,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Giant Tortoise
a giant tortoise
living to be one hundred
galapagos beast...

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Categories: tortoise, 10th grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Which Way Do I Go?
Slow-moving tortoise
Confused by its own shadow
On a rocky beach...

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Categories: tortoise, animals, confusion, imagination, life, nature, uplifting, visionary,
Form: Haiku
Tortoise and the Hare
If a turtle could.
He would walk faster- maybe.
Find some dynamite....

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Categories: tortoise, black african american, fun, funny, silly,
Form: Haiku
Home of the Tortoise (Haiku)
The load is heavy, 
for one who carries his home 
on his back, always...

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Categories: tortoise, animals, nature
Form: Haiku



Onion Syndrome
Tortoise layers grow

Spider sideways and implode

Needling the way home...

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Categories: tortoise, confusion
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Dead sled ahead
So its sled dead..Ahead!
E V's get ice'd with outage
The tortoise smiles long.'...

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Categories: tortoise, appreciation, confusion, education,
Form: Haiku
Tortoise
The tired old Tortoise painfully creeps across a desolate desert
...

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Categories: tortoise, destiny, imagery, loneliness, old, perspective, poetry, sun,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Tortoise and the Hare: Part II of a NEW Poetic Format
the sportsmanship that
honesty competes often
eludes the cheaters...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tortoise, analogy,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Tortoise and the Hare: Part I of a NEW Poetic Format
Tortoise looked, couldn't see, hare disappeared.
Only him, tortoise win, hare reappeared....

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tortoise, analogy, games, life, lost, perspective, writing,
Form: Couplet
The Journey (Motto)
Like the tortoise, be gentle, take small steps – go far

Inspired by Brian Strand's  (Motto/Monuku) contest...

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Categories: tortoise, life
Form: Monoku
Long Life of Tortoise
lions in the forest 
are roaring  loudly 
tortoises look at 
skelton of lions generationally. 

July 18/2023...

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Categories: tortoise, animal, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Attracted
She was attracted
by a humble tortoise
the beautiful designs
made her sleepless
but hidden realities
she did not know...

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Categories: tortoise, metaphor, wisdom, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Michelle and Morris In a Nutshell
Michelle introduced us to Morris
Most prolific thesaurus tortoise
Her wording profuse
Just like Dr. Seuss
She most certainly didn't bore us...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tortoise, fun, humorous, tribute, word play, words,
Form: Limerick
Aesop Arizona
A bunny can hop, jump, and leap
And sit up straight whilst fast asleep 
A tortoise must climb
One step at a time
Spurred on by the Roadrunner's beep...

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Categories: tortoise, america,
Form: Limerick
Life
So confusing and 
complecated
             moving slowly 
          like a little tortoise
           but with patience
      we would walk it 
through...

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Categories: tortoise,
Form: ABC
Tortoise's Song
Tortoise’s Song


A shy Tortoise I remain-
Who from publicity does refrain
On a march so slow
When I see ‘then’ I withdraw!!


JM

02nd February 2014...

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Categories: tortoise,
Form: Couplet
Cuisine
For an exotic meal I pursued,
Not expecting one that did include,
Some baked tortoise tails
Amongst a plate of snails...
But I think I’ll just stick to fast food....

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Categories: tortoise, food, humor,
Form: Limerick
Poise
a turquoise tortoise

                                    and a purposive porpoise

                                                            neither loses poise...

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Categories: tortoise, animals, life, nature,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Winter Is Not Forever
winked tortoise to the snail ~ the hare was already springing past summer 


Winter is not Forever Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: BJ Legros Kelley 
Howmanysyllables 17
15/02/23...

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Categories: tortoise, allegory, humor, perspective,
Form: Monoku
Window Seat
Sitting on my window seat,
A world below, a world complete.

People passing people by,
No time to question who or why.

Man with green bag, going where?
If he's the tortoise, where's the hare?...

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Categories: tortoise, introspection, lifeworld,
Form: I do not know?
Bunny Flop
a limerick by Wayne Wysocki

The tortoise and hare had a race
But the rabbit came in second place
      So the notion that speed
      Makes the win guaranteed
Just isn't always the case....

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Categories: tortoise, humor, humorous, race,
Form: Limerick
See, We Are Free
Trees were our tortoise shell,
Which down-down we fell;
We stand now on dead stems,
Cheering – See, we’re free!! 


Aug. 16, 2020 
Strand Completely New (23), Any Form, Any Theme Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Brian Strand...

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Categories: tortoise, beauty, nature, pollution, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Wish I Was a Tortoise
A stubborn old Taurus
I wish I was a tortoise

To live life at a reasonable pace

But more on topic
I'm agoraphobic

I could go out never leaving my place





05.05.18

Viv Wigley
I wish I was a - Poetry Contest...

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Categories: tortoise, animal, appreciation, introspection, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
Simple Things
Hot bath in the morning
Swiping for hours
favorite food on plate
slow and steady
Like a tortoise against a hare
Content with small fishes from a pond
When there's a huge ocean just steps away
Is the ship sailing without a destination?...

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Categories: tortoise, addiction, boat, dream, fear,
Form: Free verse

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