Blue Leviathan

Blue Leviathan 


Sounding the bathymetric deep
Lazuline green to waters risen
Of sonic dark sung Cetacea poetry
With ever knowing smiles
The gargantuan glides
Graceful on angel winged flukes

Slow easy speed
Of winded massive lungs
Hits the surfacing
Blown by fountainhead spouts
Breaching upon the waves

Two hundred tones of aquamarine
Poised and ready
Driven to fly the salt-water medium
Lifting from the brine light domain

Performs a pirouette

Crashing leviathan
In a centuries ballet
Antediluvian epitome of natures
Balanced perfection
Sings a song haunted melody
Traversing oceans

Beyond the deepest knowing of land
The plummet and plumb line
Of fathoms
Still skirts a coral reef
And basks in shallows
Quiet phantom
Of the giant blue

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Koko Koomoa

Date: 2/15/2009 8:32:00 AM

Colin, I would agree with Christie that there is deeper meaning lying between lines. I want to eat this poem for lunch abd digest it well. On the surface it is lovely about the ancient creature. I watch whales off Hawaii and thrill to see one breach or leave just a tip of tail to wave goodbye. Charming, poem ,but more is here to savor. You do possess an extraordinary and gifted mind,as Christie said. It might be fun to take a long walk through the garden of your muse. aloha, Koko