Long Flukes Poems

Chapter 13d

Yet at length he reawakened 
As if in another lifetime 
Han discerned a sound and movement 
Stiffly rose to look about him

And he saw his precious Matto
Crouching near him in the vessel!
That was now...

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Chapter 13c

In the tracks of these cetaceans 
For as long as he could follow 
So he said to Tor the shipwright 
"I will follow after Matto
 
“In the hope beyond all hoping 
That my boy might yet be living 
For my...

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[This excerpt from a memoir I wrote 20 years ago seems sadly apropos given the recent mass murders and bombings]

This then is where my faith lies:that it will all work out in the long run,...

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'Twas pain that taught my heart to bleed 
for sorrows of another...
then kept my deepest heartfelt needs
in silence to serve a buffer

For in the cutting vein of love
I saw a darkness unto death
with eyes of...

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God showed His face a few more times--like
when He and Jacob wrestled, God knows why,
but wrestle they did, all day and into the night,
and here's the thing: God couldn't beat him!
Jacob held God so tight...

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Why does this anger inside of me 
reach the surface so violently 
a small violin sits silently 
the bow starts to slide the string

Quite simply 
I don’t want the sympathy 
nor feeling sorry 
for the...

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Oft I flew as an artigiano over turbid and stern feelings,
Blowing hard into alpenhorn to shake the mountains built to protect,
Pale-hued gems, aneurysms of loving, resisted the temptation,
They malignantly affected me, as my twaddle does...

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I used to wonder
If you remained 
Completely comfortable
Would you ever wake from sleep
It brings to mind the value
Of slight discomfort
Causing you to wake
And live your life again
The cycle of needing a jolt
Or drifting forever in...

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Look at the horizon to view a vast sea.
                    Orange, yellow and red skies move slow...

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putrid rascal was a real truant
and also a junkie
and a somnambulist too
and wicked gourmet bought a new guillotine

then the rascal walked dizzily 
like a mechanic dancer
around the cinnamon circle
right under the scythe
and underwent a severance

the...

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Blue Leviathan 


Sounding the bathymetric deep
Lazuline green to waters risen
Of sonic dark sung Cetacea poetry
With ever knowing smiles
The gargantuan glides
Graceful on angel winged flukes

Slow easy speed
Of winded massive lungs
Hits the surfacing
Blown by fountainhead spouts
Breaching upon...

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The journey of me
Your about to read
Migration of we
To rich grounds to feed
 
Vast waters
Gifted of blue
Humpback and right
My cousins true
 
In hunger dive
After giant squid
To the darken deep
On our sonar grid
 
Feasted, fed
Shadows appear
Orca...

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Immortalized there in the Trevi,
Poseidon and his wondrous steed;
these legendary beasts of the waters
gallop the ocean forever free.

Ancestry of the charmer sea horse
forever pulling a gods’ chariot;
noble they grace heraldic armor,
gallant specters swimming free. 

With...

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Some of us are freaks
Some of us are less so
Some of us are geeks
With names like Fark or Bezlo.

Some have winning streaks
Lots of us are losers
Some of us have beaks 
Three of us are Hoosiers.

Some...

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You know what soccer football needs?
Bigger Goals!
An extra meter on each side of the posts.
Bigger Goals means More Goals!
With goals shot from wider out,
the game then would be far less defensive
with less endless back passing,
and...

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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...

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~Whales~
(Acrostic)


W hales are one of the largest an most beautiful magnificent marine mamals in the world
H ave been hunted for centuries for oil, meat, other raw materials.
A nd some of the species are endangered, and...

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Oh dear my, Butterfly

 With your awkward flight that looks not right, does this cause you pain ?
 Your beauty though proceeds you, but is it all in vain ?

You are a wondrous sight that...

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Taenia Saginata – oh isn't that a pretty name
If you find one in your burger it sure would be a shame
Roundworms, flatworms and flukes can be found in beef, pork or fish
Wouldn’t it be disgusting...

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