Gosh, I didn't realize that I'd come up with this poem, given this simple picture of a small turtle. But as I got into it, several turtle legends came to mind. Both Native American and Asian cultures have creation legends that have the earth being recreated upon a turtle's back after a great flood. Turtles are also ancient since the time of the dinosaurs. There is a rock carving of a turtle above the Delaware River that is described as a "Watcher." It inspired a book by Sheila McGill-Callahan called "And Still the Turtle Watched," in which the turtle observes the comings and goings of the world for millions of years. So I blended these into the poem.

Trud - a variation of the word "trod" (to walk upon, past participle of tread), It is inspired by the use of the word Ã?"drug," a past form of the verb "drag."

This poem is a 6-8 Verse.
6-8 Verse is the reverse of 8-6 metered Ballad verse. It begins with the short 6 syllable line and then gives forth to the 8 syllable line. This format can continue with any number of lines, and use any meter.

For this poem, I used nine line structured stanzas (Nanotets), which I liked because it yields the short line at the beginning, as well as the end. My rhyme scheme is:

a b c a b c a b c

This photograph was taken by the author himself on 10/18/2018.

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