Turtle Island

A place where time moves slow and bombs move fast

Turtle Island

See-through turquoise waters call

It must be a holiday we forgot

Sidled up on laps against the shore

Like two old friends just holding hands

After hurricanes turn from rage to calm

Tortoise tracks like hieroglyphics scratched

Etched signs of tiny creatures over time

Over surfaces, spread patterns born to die in shells

Delicate traces of a place long gone fossilized

Soft winds protect smooth surfaced sands

Glowing white from a constant friendly sun

As palms bow down with other trees to pray

To a speck of dirt on its way to being lost

Oceans wave good-bye to godless islands

An innocent dot, a perfect nothing

Emerged so long ago on seas as vast

So vast as to forget its place on any map

Remote and distant, hiding from existence

No need to worry about mortality today

This is a designated test site for nuclear explosions

A location for slow moving creatures lost at sea

For strange objects falling from the sky

A place to die called Turtle Island

Reviews

[Einstein Noodle]

i looked up Turtle Island and found only that it is the name used to describe the Earth by indigenous peoples of N. America .. with a whole mythical creation story behind it .. so i read your poem with that in mind .. is there a specific island you are referring to? or the Earth itself? either way .. humanity has certainly failed in the past to nurture life .. and nature certainly has a destructive power all its own ... our knowledge of atomic power is an anvil over our heads no doubt about it ... one simply can not say if it is even possible to live under it ... you have me thinking .. love the education i read about "Turtle Island" ;)
E.

[Earl Schumacker]

Hi E, Thanks! Glad you liked it. No. I'm a very simple man. I just came up with "Turtle Island." I invented it to tell a simple story with images. I might check out the Turtle Island with the real history and backstory to it for fun. Earl

[Einstein Noodle]

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