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Baleen Poems - Poems about Baleen

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...Minke whales, surface and dive
massive baleen lined mouths filter out food
our boat keeps its distance
...

Categories: baleen, animal,
Form: Other

Baleen

...
  a whale's baleen

    hundreds seen ... mash

      marine cuisine...

Categories: baleen, food, water,
Form: Than-Bauk

Consumption

...Unhinge your jaw, snake, what’s a little more?
You’re eating worlds faster than they make them
And nothing fills you better than a tale of love and war.

You’re ravenous, really, making feasts ou...

Categories: baleen, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

I Rode Upon a Sea of Dreams

...Last night, I rode upon a sea of dreams,
a whale and grandpa rode them with me.
I felt water hit me as I sailed in my bed;
it was only the whale nodding his head.

He splashed all around thos...

Categories: baleen, children, dream, fantasy, poems,
Form: Rhyme

Graduating From the School of Hard Knocks

...1 Knocked to the Ground

There’s no bell, nor stars—
just bloody knees.
You haven’t thought of heaven or hell,
when you cursed the sneeze.

2 Ignoring the Obvious Cause

Using a whisk
to du...

Categories: baleen, christian,
Form: Free verse

Fin Whales

...Fin Whales are listed as, endangered
and are the second largest animal, on our planet
they swim in, California, Coral Triangle and Artic waters
and the ridge on their back, is nicknamed “razorback...

Categories: baleen, animal, beautiful, earth, education,
Form: Rhyme

Blue Whale

...Blue Whale is an internet game involving a series of 
tasks that end in suicide, invented by Philipp Budeikin. 

Blue Whale

It appears 
in Budeikin’s brain.
Its baleen plates will filter 
th...

Categories: baleen, life,
Form: Free verse

Saving Grace

...Wending her way westward, wafted on whispering wings
   Sailing serenely southward, slithering past secluded scenes
Nudging northward, noticing narrow, noctilucent moonbeams
   Edging effortlessly...

Categories: baleen, angel, destiny, fantasy, heaven,
Form: Alliteration

Freedom Sees - Part 2

...
"Freedom Sees - Part 2"

Platoon magic legion
Hammerheads
beautiful, graceful escorts
leading the way
hear their call, silently swishing
dorsal fins
cutting through the 
fall-out mu...

Categories: baleen, adventure, daughter, freedom, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Odyssey From Africa 13b

...Ch. 13 b (The whale, cont.)

Now the sardine hunt developed 
As they glimpsed beneath the surface 
Flashing rays of gold and silver
Of the dolphins and the swordfish 
 
That converged with blu...

Categories: baleen, adventure, africa, courage, endurance,
Form: Narrative

Mister Baleen

...MISTER BALEEN
limerick




                                    Mister Baleen got a whalebone
                                 He went to a charmer Doctor scone
                               ...

Categories: baleen, fun, nonsense,
Form: Limerick

Whales For Tomorrow

...Deep blue sea mammals 
Cetaceans so grand
Its hard to believe
They originated on land
 
Dolphins, porpoises
Our many Whales
What ever size
Beautiful in sail
 
Toothed and baleen
Identifies...

Categories: baleen, animals, inspirational, nature, sea
Form: Rhyme