Jason Horsler Poet Sonnet

Notes About The Poem

This poem is included in my omnibus anthology 'Butterfly Mind' (2025) as well as being first published in volume two of my poetry: 'The Teaching Of The Quail' (1993-1024).

(06/2023) See Job 3:8, 41:1; Psalm 2; Revelation 3:17; Hebrews 6:4 - 8; Proverbs 9:10 & chapter 36 of Herman Melville’s ‘Moby Dick’.

WHO DARES ROUSE LEVIATHAN

Who dares rouse Leviathan,
the Giant beneath the heaving deeps?
This world now teams with Ahabs
whose heaping anger never sleeps.
Each one wants to hook its jaw
and each to press its tongue;
to try its rich and fragrant oil
and see it bound and beached and dumb.

Poor soul captains on fragile ships
vainly sharpening the barbless spear.
The Whale scoffs beneath the waves,
rising to teach all wisdom through fear.

Soon the Brute will breach and blow
and send each Pequod down below.

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