Short Humpback Poems

humpback camels stroll 
across the hot desert sands 
licking sand off lips...

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walking      walking
humpback guy in rags
limping with purpose
going somewhere
to a nowhere place

Dave Austin...

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9
As in old time 
Humpback nine

1
Holds stick one
Humpback old nine

19
To turn back to teen
One front nine,nineteen!...

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reflections on whale watching

humpback whales breaching 
 play on blue flowing sea swells ~
  smooth fluke prints remain
 2-17-22...

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"cryptic cetariodactyla"


while back masking 
a humpback whale
song i heard her

sing
splish 
splash

i was 
taken 
aghast...

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Humpback
Blackjack



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on October 29, 2017 for contest ONE FOOTLE ONLY sponsored by JUDY KONOS...

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as she scales sea wall
humpback whale’s a humdinger —
aerial antics


1/17/2022

*palooza - a large scale event...

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Singers in the cold dark Atlantic Sea
Humpback whales crooning for free
Complex songs that are repeated for hours
Just one of the ocean’s mighty powers...

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The water from the blow hole spewed.
It’s hard to believe what then ensued.
With his powerful tail and massive speed,
The great humpback whale’s breaching was awesome to see....

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The water from the blow hole spewed.
It’s hard to believe what then ensued.
With his powerful tail and massive speed,
The great humpback whale’s breaching was awesome to see.

...

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The humpback whale is a musical fella
With a sonorous voice that's remarkably "mella".
He doesn't need orchestration
To cause a sensation
When he lets loose and belts out a tune a cappella.
...

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weird hum in the sea
a floating human-less hump
a humpbacked whale
hungry and hunting
hurrying to hurl krill
hoary humpback heaves with happiness
heads home to retain place
as hermit of the High Seas...

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Whales,
    Hallowed
       Aboard ships.
           Look at them spout.
Ear
   Sighs
     On deck —
         Natural
            Gasp from humpback
                              Sea

                          3/16/2019...

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Come to me krill, humpback whale calls
She feeds on a ton of them each day
Bottle nose comes up through the squalls
Hunting squid and small fish along the way
They are not in competition when they lunch
Both eating their way through ocean with a crunch...

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By shadowed lantern light I've written verses
about flying fish and Charybdis' guzzling curses;
of humpback whales that breach crested waves
then plunge to the ocean's depth of watery graves



October 16,2020    
Gregory Barden's Rithimus Divisa 10 Contest
a verse from 'Sailing Mystic Seas'  ~   8/28/20...

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I sit in a straight back chair
With my dragon humpback glowing
Leaning against nothing
Making no excuses
Smiling at the peons
My crown is too heavy to slide
They watch me expectantly.
What will I do with my gavel?
What decrees will I make?
I wish them well, knowing I am only the queen of one.
The Queen of Me.
My fire dragon breath obliterates them 
And I smile, loving this dream....

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I sat in a boat on the sea
Feeling blissfully happy and free
My eyelids were drooping
And shoulders were stooping
The last thing I saw was the quay.

Imagine when, to my surprise
There appeared right in front of my eyes
A blue humpback whale
Who was hot on my trail -
OK, granted - I hyperbolize!



Sea limerick competition : For Carolyn Devonshires limerick contest


02/08/18...

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Gassy globular leap
splendor in chromatic tone
golden brown hues race,
leaping waters of delight.
Beneath prolific waves
A humpback whale
birthing.

A newborn rocked
in mother earth as womb,
discoveries come as sands shift;
The timeless sea has secrets,
she shares with only her offspring.



1-18-2020
STRAND any form any theme Poetry Contest
Brian Strand...

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If there is reincarnation
and we get to choose another animal
I shall come back as a leatherback turtle
all humpback and proud
I will be eight foot long, and weigh two thousand pounds
Intimidating and formidable, I would stare down sharks
whales would marvel at my thick swimmers legs
I would swim my weight around in the sea
enjoying my days floating and eating
not doing math of any kind...

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Hunched over Harry had a humpback for sure
He never learned to stand up straight, but his motives were pure
Children ran from him screaming for their mamas.
He felt sad about this, so only made friends with his llamas.

What is wrong with him? Someone asked me one day.
Nothing, I admitted. He is really a nice guy, truly okay.
But he started slouching over when he was in junior high.
No one knows why though; no one knows why....

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Hunched over Harry had a humpback for sure
He never learned to stand up straight, but his motives were pure
Children ran from him screaming for their mamas.
He felt sad about this, so only made friends with his llamas.

What is wrong with him? Someone asked me one day.
Nothing, I admitted. He is really a nice guy, truly okay.
But he started slouching over when he was in junior high.
No one knows why though; no one knows why....

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One wardrobe malfunction
was a blast, a kill;
undressing imagination.
I was ready for an ambush.

Like boa’s grip, entwined, strangulating,
hardly breathing. I am in blue water
like a humpback whale;
donot go for the revenge.

It was not the fabric of flesh
hair and bones. I was tasting
the ash falling off the forehead
of a fallen saint.

The smile was going up for sale
in a gulp of greed.
Tomorrow morning I will find
amnion shaved on street. 


SATISH VERMA...

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Clicks, whistles and pulsed calls
coming from whales you can't see 
Within the compounds, no walls 
only ocean water and Captain Lee 

Sonograms and ultrasounds, its a joy  
when whale voices are heard ! 
Binoculars views, soon they deploy 
leviathans swim without a word 

The echo returns not for they do run free  
always returning to their  summer grounds     
Into the womb of the deep blue sea
they go, to a place where they can't be found. 
 
...

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One wardrobe malfunction
was a blast, a kill;
undressing imagination.
I was ready for an ambush.

Like boa’s grip, entwined, strangulating,
hardly breathing. I am in blue water
like a humpback whale;
donot go for the revenge.

It was not the fabric of flesh
hair and bones. I was tasting
the ash falling off the forehead
of a fallen saint.

The smile was going up for sale
in a gulp of greed.
Tomorrow morning I will find
amnion shaved on street. 


SATISH VERMA...

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the sky was cold and grey
when
yesterday
you told me where the Secret Penguin lay
in bygone years
they say he was a sight 
the avian conundrum
in black and white

operating in ice-cold
frozen stealth
he redistributed the ocean's wealth
some say
he went down in a bullet hail
trying to save a hunted humpback whale

his misty memory
lives down under
he left us with much more than wonder 
in the Antarctic wilderness below
his noble three-toed footprint
in the snow....

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