Shawn L. Bird

Original poetry, commentary, and fiction. All copyrights reserved.

poem-tortoise March 13, 2016

Filed under: Poetry — Shawn L. Bird @ 9:30 pm
Tags: , , , ,

In dreams

I have been gifted with a tortoise.

A slow moving friend who will live long.

When I wake, I google

whether tortoises can lived in a backyard

through Canadian winter.

before I realize it was only

a dream.

 

4 Responses to “poem-tortoise”

  1. Rajiv Says:
    March 13, 2016 at 9:31 pm

    Very long indeed

    Reply
  2. righteousbruin9 Says:
    March 14, 2016 at 10:05 pm

    Insulate the shell, and the cold will not be long in passing.

    Reply

What do you think?

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s