Short Ahab Poems

waling and
yelling at
the top
of his
voice

Ahab
stabbing
the air with
a harpoon says

that
whale
is a dick...

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Ahab puppy loved him some evil Jezebel
Lassie boy collar eyes wag the fancy tale
He sleep on her good side,
sob say the cuckold bride
Groomed so wail to fetch her bones in hell...

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She swims the salty seas
Crashing into the surface through leaves
Taking Captain Ahab down with her as he heaves

Destroying her predators ships along the way
He will no longer be found in Norway
She’s moving on to a less crowded bay...

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Oh grand pa let me tell you this tale 
Of captain Ahab and the great white whale
And how  that whale he prevailed 
Now the thing is with little girls telling these tall  tales 
they can change  the ending and my mummy slayed that whale....

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Captain Tabby Longtail stands
Like Ahab at the helm,
His Jolly Roger flying high
Above his salty realm.
He’ll keelhaul your scurvy carcass
If you give him any bull,
And he’ll make you walk the plank, mate,
If his food dish isn’t full.
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.                   CAPTAIN AHAB....

                    Fishing for attention, people might say

                    Revenge he craved, would cause a flurry

                    Complained of one that got away

                    Some said he told a whale of a story!



______________________________________...

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what's an ahab to do?
hot to trot on the beach
salt crusting my mouth
baked and begging to take a stab at whale tail

harpoon in hand, i make a splash
diving down to the floor
an ocean undulating, feet flailing wildly
i breach the surface then gasp for air

unable to fight for long, the calf relents
writhing in a pool of her own fluids
she shudders, closing her eyes
sated by the bloodless death...

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Of old
It’s told,
A tale
Of whale
So white
It might
Eclipse
Great ships
And smash
Their masts
And send
Its men 
To hell
As well.

Ishmail
Did sail
With mad
Ahab
And crew
Onto
The deep,
To seek
And slay 
That whale
So white,
Whose sight
Drove mad
Ahab.

The cost:
All lost
At sea,
But he
Alone,
Sea-blown,
Alive,
Survived
That hell,
To tell
His tale
of whale
And mad
Ahab. 
...

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Lo and Behold

A Subterranean grip

Alas a woman's mass appears in this Word Trip

She cries for Ahab to head ashore "Give the creature the slip"!

Avast a wide mast unfurls across the ship 

The Captain's cries for the harpoon are drowned out by the cracked whip 

The wondrous size of the White Whale appears from the drip 

The sheer weight of the beast causing the schooner to flip 

The showdown is on 

between Captain Ahab and Moby Dick...

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does the white whale call you
as it does to myself
silent at first but true
till in your soul it's wealth,

my life is a fervent chase
across the understanding of god
there to that empty space
where the tangles of sin are shod,

i plunged my desire burning
into flesh to the bone
all while death is yearning
holding open the gate to home,

so that there is only the need
to own,to destroy and then
the desire of the greed
that will rise again....

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Masted castles crown the mountains
   Hidden by the brackish sea,
Where a string of boiling fountains
   Dot the ever-spreading lea. 

Leafless forests of the deep,
   Visited by swimming birds,
Serve as sailors’ place to sleep,
   Roamed by mute, abyssal herds. 

Neptune’s armies stride undaunted
   While his mammoths plunge and rise,
One of which bewitched and haunted
   Ahab to his swift demise.

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Who dares rouse Leviathan,
the Giant beneath the heaving deeps?
This world now teams with Ahabs
whose heaping anger never sleeps.
Each one wants to hook its jaw
and each to press its tongue;
to try its rich and fragrant oil
and see it bound and beached and dumb.

Poor soul captains on fragile ships
vainly sharpening the barbless spear.
The Whale scoffs beneath the waves,
rising to teach all wisdom through fear.

Soon the Brute will breach and blow
and send each Pequod down below....

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