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
vocalisation
sonar echolocation
natal pods socialisation
Orca breaches amid
rolling pellucid waves;
pod accompaniment
as arching bodies play.
blowhole sprays celebrate
in random ecstasy;
ocean’s performance art.
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
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
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
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
Great leaping orca
Seize the day;
Steal a seal away!
Lightning illuminated who orca saved
It was Poseidon of course
Lean, tanned, muscular, god of the sea
The lesser gods shook with envy
and the sea goddess smiled,
hoping they might be his
chosen tonight.
The azure skies were pleased as was
the black of the water and rhinestone stars
Awed by the sight of both the orca and
Poseidon, the father god of the Baltic Sea.
Both ready for whatever came their way
with a strength usually unseen but graced
by a flash of Zeus’s own thunderbolts tonight
The goddesses sighed.
" 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
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
A pack of orcas
hunting together known
as wolves of the sea.
Orca
Abstract black and white
Scourge of the sea for many
Beauty and the beast
Orca, killer whale,
Hunter in our blue oceans;
Swimming with the pack.
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