Short Ahab Poems
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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
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
Form:
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.
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.
. 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
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.
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
Form:
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.
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.