Best Orca Poems
Black like a rare diamond.
Perfectly sculpted.
White as a snowy peek .
Reflecting off the glistening waves.
Your beauty and grace challenge us.
Mostly free, we morn for your captured brothers.
Gliding and leaping through the blue.
Chasing your soul mates protecting your tribe.
Your song is herd for miles deep.
Echoing on the icebergs.
You are magnificent, alluring.
Teasing us with your glance.
Swim far Orca be free
The beach at Orca Praia – Funchal Madeira
The powerful deep blue ocean
Expends its tidal force
Pounding down upon sea pebbles
With thud and smash so coarse
Watching from a vantage point
From the horizon to the shore
The lines of sea swell building up
Growing bigger more and more
Low, rumbling ocean rollers
Waves curling with such symmetry
Then the breakers quickly form and crash
Tossing up a plume of spray of sea
Incessant surf on shingle
Swash, swoosh and susurrate
With that endless marine motion
That will never dissipate
The waves break up and flatten
The tidal rush now gone
As the pebbles roll and rattle
Against each other as they tumble on
The roller spent, the wave now dead
Or that is what it seems
Then the backwash slithers downwards
Sluicing pebbles like big grey beans
The unending flow and ebb of tide
Today a calm but restless sea
Incessant waves wash and whoosh
So soothing it can be
But at other times she’s not so kind
Or benign to beach or land
Dashes disastrous desolation
With a fury on rock or sand
But for now I stand and wonder
At Mother Nature’s gentle reach
And watch and taste and listen
To the ocean on that basalt beach
Orca, killer whale,
Hunter in our blue oceans;
Swimming with the pack.
A pack of orcas
hunting together known
as wolves of the sea.
Out of the sea, oh Majestic Prince,
In a spray of foam so green.
Into the air in freedom's dance,
A sight that must be seen.
The Orca leaps into the air
Before our eyes... amazed.
So graceful leaping t'wards the sun.
With joyful hearts, we gazed.
He skims along the ocean green
Then leaps before our view.
One of God's most majestic beasts,
He lifts our hearts anew.
4/07/2012
see "about this poem" for photo
photo taken by Tim McGrath
Orca
Abstract black and white
Scourge of the sea for many
Beauty and the beast
ORCA
He erupts from the water
in a triumphant roll, slicing
moist air with his black fins and tail,
disappearing once more in
an explosion of diamonds as salt spray
and sun
He arrives every year when this warm
bay is pregnant, giving birth to new stories
of survival and death
The epitome of orca, his warm-blood
intelligence maneuvers like a spirit
through the muscular restlessness of
heaving gray seas that are the waters of
his days, where he’s powerful and elusive
gliding through the ocean like the shadow
of a presence in the absence of light
where he’s fluid and flexible, always
solid and smooth, as if the structure of
stone might be hydrodynamic, somehow
shaping and shaped by the contours of
water curving over his body, carrying the
chatter of echolocation and revealing his
dorsal as a signature in black, that
gray whale and great shark, and all else
who might dare, know the orcas are
back, that the family of the
owner is in residence
once more
Emanuel Carter
" Orca Whales and African Elephants ... "
(From The Solomon Studies Series)
(Eccl. 3: 11 / Prov. 6: 6 / Matt. 6: 26, 28, 29)
Orca Whales and African Elephants
Both Creatures Demand Giant Respect
Orca Whales and African Elephants
Both, Make Music of Deep-Song Depth
Orca Whales and African Elephants
Both, Seems To Have Their Memories Well-Kept
Orca Whales and African Elephants
Both, Tower Over Man In Physical Measurements
Orca Whales and African Elephants
Both, Are A Fashion Sight One Won't Forget
Orca Whales and African Elephants
Both, Mammals - Their Offspring, They Protect
Orca Whales and African Elephants
Both, Thru Their Domains, Their Kingly Form Has Swept
Orca Whales and African Elephants
Both, Are Massive Beasts of A Mighty Project
Tho' One Is Two-Tone-Hued & One - Tusked-Set
One - Huge & Dry-Hide / One - Slick, Large & Wet
Yet, Both - From The Majestic Mind of GOD
They Loomed Magnificent and Leapt ...
Tho' One Swims and One Is Heavily-Stepped
Both, Move In The Circle - Great GOD Has Mapped
Those Orca Whales & African Elephants
Written & Copyrighted ©: 1/4/2014
by: MoonBee Canady
On top of the food chain
Ocean’s great predator
Of dolphins orca’s prime
One clever hunting pod
Outmanoeuvres its prey
Onslaught starts on signal
Over once flesh devoured
Great leaping orca
Seize the day;
Steal a seal away!
I would like to thank you for your visit.
I have removed these poems for a distant future book publication.
I believe we poets, can make a difference
in this world. We live in the 21st century,
we have tools( technology), we have our past, and imagination.
We just don't have the courage, because
I guess most are afraid to fail, to loose money.
All I have to say is we can't take money with us,
when we die. I also say hasn't mankind failed enough,
and isn't mankind worth the effort, our children is worth the effort..
Thank you, and my your God Bless you
John E WordSlinger
Ode to an Orca
You are the apex predator
of the ocean.
No other sea creature can
match you.
Even the mighty great white
fears you.
Its liver one of your prime
delicacies.
You are an intelligent animal who
can adapt to any environment.
A voracious eater, you are
not selective.
Fish, seals, whales, sharks, penguins,
dolphins are prime targets.
Even boats are not immune to
your voracious attacks.
You hunt in packs, the wolves
of the sea.
Your young are taught the ways
of the pod.
This knowledge is passed from
generation to generation.
Only mankind is powerful enough
to destroy you.
Even some tribes still revere your
power and might.
It is fortunate for us you have not
developed a taste for humans-yet
Orca breaches amid
oarfish snaking among
oblivious new pod.
Orcan arching bodies
obscure oarfish slithers
on an unseen loner;
ocean’s oldest secret.
3-28-2022
In Search Of Prey Poetry Contest
Joseph May
Pinnacle predator
Prominently patterned
Primarily pod-based
Prefers porpoise portions
Pretty photogenic
Partially protected
Parasite-prone problems
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for the In Search of Prey Poetry Contest
on the subject of Orcas
sponsored by Joseph May
written 03/16/2022
Orca breaches amid
rolling pellucid waves;
pod accompaniment
as arching bodies play.
blowhole sprays celebrate
in random ecstasy;
ocean’s performance art.