<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=423433" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Malaysiana - Leatherback Turtle</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">coconut leaves rustle, <br>running with the wind <br>at at least 20 km per hour<br>waves surge at an <br>equally frantic speed - <br>patriotic hands that <br>repeatedly hold onto <br>the beach with a roaring<br>and thunderous voice to <br>match their claim</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a giant turtle slowly emerges <br>in the water, a dark shadow <br>accenting the night with its <br>rare mound and strenuous flippers<br>the final touchdown in a <br>thousand mile comeback</div><div style="margin:10px 0">each stride and lug forward<br>reflects a firm belief in the land<br>that it belongs to</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is the first comeback after <br>many many years at sea<br>and now for the noblest of chores</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in less than two hours, <br>at least a hundred<br>ping pong size eggs <br>have gone into a hole it has dug<br>a hole large enough to hold <br>all its love for the land</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and you should see how tears<br>keep rolling down its eyes <br>as it thanks god it still remembers<br>its way back to shower its gratitude <br>to the land that had given him birth</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the giant turtle remembers how years<br>ago it had crept out of its egg, shoveled away sand <br>and without another thought made its <br>precarious way to the freedom of the sea</div><div style="margin:10px 0">despite the brief encounter, it never never <br>forgot the land it originated from, its smell, its winds, <br>its sounds and has logged every inch it had swam <br>to make that triumphant return today</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the hundred eggs hold its hundred wishes<br>that this tradition be kept for as long <br>as leatherback turtle exists</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Tiong+Chunghoo">John Tiong Chunghoo</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=423433" data-title="Malaysiana - Leatherback Turtle de John Tiong Chunghoo" data-description="coconut leaves rustle, running with the wind at at least 20 km per hour waves surge at an equally frantic speed - patriotic hands that repeatedly hold onto the beach with a roaring and thunderous voice to match their claim a giant turtle s..."></div> </div> </div>

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