I purchased a skeleton of a blue whale
to frame my new house, down in the vale.
Those whales grow as long as ninety-eight feet
had to purchase few extra feet from my neighbor Pete.
My whale house resides partly in his yard too
People ask me what kind of whale she was, I tell them blue.
Good thing Pete and I get along horribly and wonderfully fine
Because I am still five feet over our new agreed-upon line.
She came up from the deepest depths of the Indian Sea.
Feeling summoned by a spirit that was wild, zany and free.
A clipper ship was on the top of the waves, but she let it be.
Trying to discern who had called her from deep in the Sea.
What is happening asked a sea creature, who scampered toward her.
Not sure, she replied, but someone has a heart that is incredibly pure.
I sensed them on that ship, so I decided not to attack or capsize it.
If the crew had known this whale was there, they would have had a fit.
mount of blue sapphire
glides in waves of wide ocean ---
waters in puzzle
12 April 2022
A blue whale’s tongue
How large can it be?
As supersized as a redwood tree.
No, not that big, the expert said.
But if you get smacked by one, you might become dead
As big as a car?
Bigger I think.
It weighs as much as an elephant.
So away I slink, for a blue whale is in sight, heading for me.
I hide in the corals, hoping me she will not see.
Aquatic colossus breaches with elation,
crystalline baubles spray towards
periwinkle skies as casting flukes sway.
In expanse of brine play the descendants
of millennia old warriors; their songs
eco among the macrophyte gardens.
They know the secrets of ancient sailors,
these Balaenoptera musculus in their clan-pods
carry the wisdom of unknown worlds within Gaia’s
womb. A harmonic constitutional for these
hearts of compassion, the annual migration
will glean offspring to carry on the tradition
and guardianship of esoterica; this star
has come far and whispered her secrets
only to the wise ones.
4-22-2021
ALL YOURS (Apr 23) Poetry Contest
Brian Strand
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
the worthless krill from society,
he envisages.
Swimming alone,
it catches teens.
It challenges Varun
in the ocean of dejection.
He takes on the tasks:
listens
to the lunatic music,
climbs
on a crane,
engraves
a red whale
on his arm
with a pair of compasses…
On the fiftieth day,
he undertakes
the last task
and falls into death
from the top of his broken psyche.
Baffling the whalers,
the blue whale swims
with its mouth open.
First published in The Literary Hatchet (Pear Tree Press, US)
Blue whale fart bubbles are big enough to swallow a horse
Can't imagine how they know, must have an underwater source
Maybe a smartass starfish
With a human-like gift
Thinks he's world-famous and looks great in fish shorts
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