Long Whalers Poems
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Moby Dick: Retribution, Be It Man Or Beast
Moby Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New York City as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. It is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne....
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Categories:
whalers, angst, character, conflict, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Light Verse and Nonsense Verse Iii
LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE III
The Humpback
by Michael R. Burch
The humpback is a gullet
equipped with snarky fins.
It has a winning smile:
and when it SMILES, it wins
as miles and miles of herring
excite its fearsome grins.
So beware,...
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Categories:
whalers, fun, funny, giggle, humor, humorous, joy, light,
Form:
Rhyme
The Great Fish Maui Snared
With canoe and hook of a jawbone
below a great fish Maui snared,
and his brothers half-crazed behaving
leapt and gouged in frenzy craving.
From Palliser Bay to Cape Reinga
(departing place of the...
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Categories:
whalers, home,
Form:
Rhyme
The Moby Dick Reunion
The Moby Dick Reunion
One hundred fifty nine years have passed
Since Melville published his novel.
Seven hundred twenty pages in length
Some say it was much too nautical.
All of the characters have gathered.
They’re going to have...
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Categories:
whalers, parody
Form:
Verse
Here Be Dragons
The sea pig wandered aimlessly through the straits of Gibraltar where once upon a time she had seen the pillars of Hercules standing proudly in that so long ago forgotten age
She sighed and swam on...
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Categories:
whalers, allegory, change, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Whale Songs
Humpback beauties call to their young
Communicating to calves so precious
Don't be so immediately audacious
You can wander, just don't go too long
Blubberous parents are there to keep them close
For companionship, warmth and learning
Send each...
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Categories:
whalers, sea, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
Gentle Giants of the Sea
'Thar she blows!' the cry goes up
a breaching whale is seen
The longboat's manned and low'red
the lookout's eyes were keen
The hunt begins, the whalers chant
the oarsmen strain and pull
The whaling ship won't turn for port
'til her...
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Categories:
whalers, death, ocean,
Form:
Ballad
A Whaling Tale
A Whaling Tale
by Gabriel Magno
The whaling ships approach as I stare into the bay,
today I said by short farewells, to friends who pled I stay.
A whaler I have dreamt to be, since I stood...
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Categories:
whalers, change, judgement,
Form:
Rhyme
Do You Have a Song?
When Whitman said
make your life a song,
had he spoken to old whalers?
Did they tell him of nights becalmed
on a pacific salty sea,
when no sound of lapping waves,
or rope stressed wood,
could interfere with the silence in...
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Categories:
whalers, allegory, love, old, old,
Form:
Free verse
How -WE- Won The West
Created this for a blog, but I am unncertain as there's an absence of accountabilty that would assure me of the values that I've delineated, has been ascertained.
I've effected a furtherance exposing other pertinent facts...
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Categories:
whalers, analogy,
Form:
Free verse
The Captive Angel
THE SNOW and coarse wind both plunge down over oceans
Unbound and unmeasured by obstinate sailors
Who drift while confronting ungrappled emotions
Like obdurate petrels and stoical whalers.
Imprisoned ashore on a cliff is the mourner
Whose wings have...
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Categories:
whalers, angel, death, life, mountains, philosophy, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Yup,Yup
THE EDGES WERE RAVELED
I COULD MAKE OUT THE
AUTHERS SIGNATURE
I MEASURED THE SIZE
AND FOUNDED WHAT
I HAD CAME TO SEE
THE ORGINAL " DUEX dE gRITT"
BY dIZZIE cAULIER GRUMP
I cOULDN'T BELEIVE WHAT WE WERE SEEING
A VISION FROM...
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Categories:
whalers, art, fate, identity, missing, mystery, mythology, nature,
Form:
Ballad
Beware the Kraken
Legends abound from society to society
But Norwegians have one that evokes great anxiety
A mythical sea monster of immense proportions
May be fifty-feet long, or its size has some distortions
With enormous tentacles it’s said to have grabbed...
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Categories:
whalers, animal, mystery, sea,
Form:
Couplet
Point Lobos Paths
Last Fall, my church's Scouts and I went hiking.
A few miles north of Big Sur’s coast,
There is a forested park much to our liking.
Point Lobos is the nature preserve that I love most.
The beauty there...
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Categories:
whalers, animal, mountains, nature, ocean, son, tree, youth,
Form:
Couplet
William Charles Lunalilo
William Charles Lunalilo
First King, chose by the people
Grandnephew of the Great King, as the people vote, was unanimous
Next year, King Kamehameha the Sixth died of tuberculosis
Hawaiian marriages are coconuts
Apple's eye, orchard nigh--girls uppercuts
Bees concede and...
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Categories:
whalers, appreciation,
Form:
Clerihew
Non-Coercive World
Non-Coercive World
'Liberty', your name on every tongue.
Your lips carry the Call of all-along...
From deep within our breast,
Wherein our thoughts do rest...
And percolate in solitude,
Above the teaming multitude...
Exhorting us to become ourselves;
To go deep within- shun...
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Categories:
whalers, art, care, change, child, community, friendship love,
Form:
Free verse
The Albatross
(After Charles Baudelaire)
Many a time, to amuse themselves, the sailors
would trap an albatross, make it a slave.
(These ruffians manned those old-time deep-sea whalers,
resenting, but indented to, the waves).
The moment that an...
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Categories:
whalers, allegory,
Form:
Quatrain
Whalers Fate
Whaler’s fate
Several submarines disappeared,
without a trace in the greatest, World War two,
ancient mariners of the Yankee race,
still dive’s and surface’s too,
a time shift to century twenty first,
6 torpedoes wait to run,
on the deck a 5...
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Categories:
whalers, adventure, , fate,
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
the worthless krill from society,
he envisages.
Swimming...
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Categories:
whalers, life,
Form:
Free verse
Judge Knot
Some people think knots are for boy scouts and sailors
Cowboys, hangmen,Anglers and whalers
But knots have many jobs to do
To make this point I'll name a few
turning two heavy ropes into one?
The Carrick bend will get...
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Categories:
whalers, funny
Form:
Rhyme
The Whalers
The Whalers
There is a perfect hideaway
Down by the southern shore.
It overlooks the ocean
Where giant breakers roar
Was from this port, in days gone by
The whalers plied their trade
There was no shame in honest toil
How...
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Categories:
whalers, history
Form:
Rhyme
Far From Submissive
A placid Ocean ripples with
undulating, hypnotic waves.
And lost within Her depth's embrace;
lies the bodies of kings and slaves.
Exposing forgotten treasures;
cascading breakers seed the shore.
And hint at what still lies submerged;
deep within Her ebony core.
She is...
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Categories:
whalers, beauty, feelings, imagery, imagination, nature, ocean,
Form:
Quatrain
Hel Or High Water
That’s what the Ground hogs whistle:
‘hell or high water’
then they put on their old-timey spectacles
and the glasses slip
to the end of their stubby snouts.
The squirrels climb too high
for the lower depths of Hades...
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Categories:
whalers, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Connection
I dreamt you
in golden threads of sunlight;
streaming, dancing, mingling with
azure waters...
dreamt you calling,
singing out my name in your regal orcan tongue...
dreamt you in each face that peered
from liquid silver seas...
dreamt your body's etheric touch
amidst cool...
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Categories:
whalers, angel, bereavement, dream, family, feelings, grandparents, poems,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Water Dragons
The roll of the waves hides the arcs of their backs.
The shoal of porpoises are feeding on squid.
Feasting amongst them on cephalopod snacks
Are green-scaled dragons that choose to be hid.
They hide from whalers and their...
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Categories:
whalers, fantasy, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme