Lustrous diamond,
blazing star constant and true,
Sol, we adore you.

Turtles are renowned sun worshipers, so today I’m dedicating my sun haiku to them. Unlike humans, however, sunbathing is not just a fun pastime in order to enhance one’s aesthetic attractiveness. No, their health and well-being depends upon it. Apparently turtles bask to regulate body temperature, and also to produce the vitamin D3 they need to absorb calcium and avoid metabolic bone disease.

Turtles are very sociable creatures. They will happily share a log, and if need be, they politely as possible walk on top of their companion(s) to get to the other end of it. I suppose it’s a sort of sunbathing etiquette agreed upon by turtles. Imagine if we humans did that to each other at the beach!

But what I really want to know is, while they’re soaking up the rays, what do turtles talk about? (“Hey Bill, check out the cute babe on the next log…”)

The haiku Sun-kissed is from my Hart Haiku Vol. 1 collection. | © Susan L Hart

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