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ADHD (It sucks to be me) J.D. Mags	And I feel like a tortoise; I’m slow with no purpose, My brain’s in perpetual...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Bring me the sunset in a cup Emily Dickinson	Among astonished boughs— How many trips the Tortoise makes— How many cups the Bee partakes, The Debauchee of...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Fairy Tales Ana Lawton	castles high, while below the mighty hare and tortoise battle to a...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Honey home Brian Kelvin	,the story when told would be not of void,nor of tortoise fables, Instead,a sting or several in the...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
OH GREEN PEACE- THE ARCTIC SEA! EVANS KAOMA	Not only of the tortoise in haste, And the wildebeest in...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Mountain and the Tree India C. Ebrahim	Just like the tortoise and the hare So Dear Mountain, don't try to compete You need this tree To make you...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
tortoise and hare (a haiku fablet) haiku artist	plods on swift hare circles 'round him...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Mountain and The Tree Sharik Currimbhoy Ebrahim	Like the tortoise and the...	Rate it (4.33 / 6 votes)
A Lowly Turtle Full of Grace Karl Constantine FOLKES	A mighty tortoise shell to...	Rate it (4.00 / 1 vote)
Animal House Cicely Fox Smith	There’s a tortoise asleep in the strawberry bed (They say it’s asleep but it smells a bit dead); There are rabbits...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
100 Percent Natural . Nikhil Parekh	at times a phlegmatically lazing tortoise; paying an absolute deaf ear to the conventionally turgid...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
100% Natural Nikhil Parekh	at times a phlegmatically lazing tortoise; paying an absolute deaf ear to the conventionally turgid...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A bazaar of loneliness Riddhima	have flown away i am the tortoise who corners itself in the zoo i am not dying ages have passed 6 we buy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Grave Marianne Moore	heretofore -- the tortoise-shell scourges about the feet of the cliffs, in motion beneath them; and the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Nocturne Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	Slow--footed tortoise Hours, will ye not hasten on, Till from his prison In the golden East A new day shall have...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Writer Is Never Unemployed Nikhil Parekh	A potbellied tortoise is never fast; crawls painstakingly through the leafy meadows chewing grass; while...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
All I Want Is Everything Nikhil Parekh	All I want is a pot-bellied tortoise, snuggling close to my heart when I was...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Ode to Solidarity: The All NEHU Workers' Union (ANWU) Mawphniang Napoleon	The tortoise defeats the hare without...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Anonymous Arowosaye Habeeb	Well known tortoise and it...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
As The Wind Blew Nikhil Parekh	The potbellied tortoise sunk way beneath into its shell; profoundly contented with its perennial warmth, Steaming...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
At Putney R C Lehmann	It's buffet and slam and a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Babel: The Gate Of The God Gordon Bottomley	'It has the nature of a woman's bosom', 'The tortoise, first created, signifies it', 'A blind and rudimentary navel shows The source of worship...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Baby Tortoise David Herbert Lawrence	Baby...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Before Going To Sleep Nikhil Parekh	The pot bellied tortoise receded its head way back in its obdurate shell, Gulped down handsome pints of water;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Being Sheriff Suleman	Slowed me down like Tortoise And in them I got high but stagnant Swimming in the pool of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)