This poem is from The Cowpat Throwing Contest, collected by Brian Moses, Wayland, illustrated by David Pattison.

This poem appears in Animal Magic, IRON Press.

Baby Turtle Lullaby

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A warm, salty breeze

is blowing, small turtles,

asleep in your nests

under sand in the bay,

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the touch of soft starlight,

the sound of the sea’s song,

is calling to wake you

and bear you away,

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your destiny waits in

blue, boundless oceans,

so say your goodbyes

to the motionless land,

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paddle as fast as

your flippers can follow

and leave just your

butterfly prints in the sand.

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© Liz Brownlee

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You can find this poem and another by me in The Sea’s Song, published by Oxford University Press: