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'Beautiful Skull'
stunning horizon
endless shoreline
sand and surf for
miles and miles
so peaceful
shocking to know
such paradise
is but a graveyard
to that sea tortoise now
closing my eyes
I imagine the joy
he must feel as he
lounges in the oceans
of Heaven's own paradise
perhaps one day he will
tell me the story
of his life's remarkable journey
right up till
his Beautiful Skull
washed up here on this
amazing coast line....................
(May 11, 2011 126am)

Author's Notes/Comments: 

this idea came from the last time I went to the beach I enjoyed the shoreline but stumbled upon a skull and it took me a bit of time to figure out that it was indeed a skull and a local there told me it was that of a tortoise. This poem evolved from that recollection.

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©11 May 2011 - 5:47am — palewingedpoetess
12 May 2011 - 9:06am — emmenay
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REMARKABLY MOVING AND BEAUTIFUL

This is one of the best poems I have ever read on this website. It dabbles with the visible and takes us, along with its immense pull, into a wholly new world...thanks O Pale Winged Poetess...

Muhammad Naveed Ahmed.

Pen name:Emmenay.

Yahoo email ID:Ambitious7

Initials: M.N. Ahmed.

13 May 2011 - 4:55am — palewingedpoetess
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Why thank you Sir Poet!

You honor me with such lovely accolades. Of course you and the rest of post poems inmates knows what a shameless fan of your poetic works I am as well so that makes your comments strike all the more deeply into my warm and blushing poetic heart as I know what an honest soul you are. I hope you, your kith and kin are all indeed well sir!, Sincerely, Melissa Lundeen