I went for a walk today
and saw a medium size turtle;
it was coming out of the bushes
and wanted to cross the street.
I stopped to greet it,
to admire its gorgeousness,
its brown shell with yellow circles,
its extended neck, yellow color lines
dazzling to my sight.
“Be careful with the cars
as you cross the street”, I said.
I continued my walk not to scare it away,
then I thought for a moment:
I love to walk and see the unexpected,
never knowing with certainty or beforehand
what I might find in the journey,
I imagine the turtle was thinking
the same thing, but like me, it decided
to walk to encounter life.
I was a giant woman in the eyes
of that beautiful turtle, it got scared
when it saw me; when I saw its
beauty and fragile form
wanting to explore and to cross the street,
then it occurred to me at the end,
things can be seen from many
different points of view.
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Author:
rrodriguez (
Offline) - Published: July 23rd, 2016 09:08
- Comment from author about the poem: This poem was a response to a reflection my friend posted on Facebook. I read the reflection and I thought this would make a great poem. I normally love to write in the classical style, but this one lent itself to a free style poem capitalizing on the encounter with a creature of nature that provoke an epiphany about life. So this being the case a title it, LIfe.
- Category: Reflection
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Very nice. You 'might' want to change 'seeing' to 'seen' in the next to last line. You made me feel like I was on the walk with you. Great words!
Yes, of course. I read, reread, and read again, but it takes other eyes to see the minute mishaps in grammar. Thanks. I will make that corection.
Thank you RR ~ I love the Greek Alphabet it is so evocative. I had a classical education so was able to transliterate ! It is a walk on the wild side ~ love turtles ~ love the slow flow of the poem ! S1. Close encounter of the turtle kind. S2. Noted the gorgeousness of its brown & yellow shell suit. S3. You worried about it crossing the road ~ turtles are slow ! S4. It walked anyway ~ turtle free spirit ! S5. You scared it with your size but (like you) it was determined to experience life. The moral is: In order to experience the other side you must first be prepared to cross the bridge ! Thanks for sharing ~ BRIAN
love this!!!
Nice work, enjoyed the read very much.
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