Poetry Monday :: Turtles

Today is Poetry Monday.  Diane - who has taken over the hosting of  this challenge - and Mimi of Messymimi's Meanderings - who supplies us with many of the topics - are also writing wonderful, funny, thought-provoking, ingenious and honestly well written verse. Go and read them!
  Karen of Baking in a Tornado has joined us in this crazy pursuit, and promises us at least a poem a month!
  SpikesBestMate often publishes a nice verse in the comments.
  Jenny at Procrastinating Donkey who has been a faithful participant, is slowly returning to blogging after her husband's passing from this world. Let's continue to send warm thoughts, good energy, and lots of prayers her way, now that her mum's health is in need of a prayer too. But still we dare hope that she will join Poetry Monday again.

For today's topic, Turtles, a nonsensical dialogue between a Flatlander, F, and his guest, G.


G: How is the Earth upheld in its place?
     How does it hang suspended in space?

F: It stands on four elephants mighty and great
    Created for this, for so is their fate.

G: And they in their turn, on what do they stand?

F: They stand on a turtle so mighty and grand.

G: And he in his place, how is he upheld?

F: He stands on another turtle's even bigger shell.

G: And under him, there's what? Please do tell.

F: Another one with an even mightier shell.

G: How does it end, this I don't understand?
     Does the lowermost turtle stand on the land?

F: The answer is "Turtles all the way down".

G: But tell me then, how does the last one not drown?

F: My dear, how ignorant can you be?
     Don't you know that turtles live in the sea?


Next Monday the topic is Memorial Day, which I'll skip as usual.
Memorial Day is not celebrated in Denmark, and as I am not one for praising soldiers or war efforts in general, no poeming will happen.