Grandmother's Discourse-A Pantoum

A pantoum about something my grandmother used to say.

Grandmother's Discourse

"And we're off like a herd of turtles."
Slow and steady; in love with the water.
Wise and new, simultaneously.
Clammy feet: a family trademark.

Slow and steady, in love with the water,
we still trudge like them, all of us with
clammy feet. A family trademark,
and a sign of an endless philosophical journey.

We still trudge like them. All of us with
a tendancy to linger in one sacred place
in spite of an endless philosophical journey.
Saved from predators by a shield of bone and tendon.

We have a tendancy to linger in one sacred place
though we dream of oceans far from our muddy marsh.
Saved from predators by a shield of bone and tendon,
we're off like a herd of turtles.