Long Cetacean Poems

Righteous smart left hand

Short lived amnesia 
(there's no app for that) found
his highness (ha... ha... ha... hm)
drawing a (figurative) blank
today January 54th, 2021,

when the misses asked yours truly
to access Verizon voicemail,
me noggin made a clank,
no...

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I’m the latest ghostly tale of a Dead Sea non-person
A son of a slave seed; 
I Diaspora bled from wooden callousness,
inside a cadaver pale white whale — 
born half-dead on arrival
Bosom fed green pasture promises,
amber...

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Written: July 06, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Craig Cornish

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My path was unkempt, with...

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     long days and nights upon this blue
 my best attempts to speak with you
and still my studies can’t construe
 the basics of your tongue
     but oh...

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'Starfish!' said I, 'thing of a moray eel.'
Be it black ocean space;
Or in the breathing coral seas;

Back into my memories squiding;
To warn me about the sea turtle;
The cetacean coral reef crabbing;
Sharks and piranhas kidnapping;

I heard...

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     long days and nights upon this blue
 my best attempts to speak with you
and still my studies can’t construe
 the basics of your tongue
     but oh...

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Hear the song of humpback whales
Gathering in Hawaiian waters,
Gathering for Cetacean opera,
Male exclusive grand recital;
On the brink of epic journey
To Alaska’s icy waters.

Off the West coast of Alaska
Shoals of herring feed off plankton.
Humpbacks fresh from...

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The boundless ocean of imagination,
as salty as the lymph inside your brain,
became a breeding field of the cetacean
ideas... I'm afraid, you'd plagued in vain 
by merciless insomnia, the poet:
they have a water lifestyle at this...

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