Short White Whale Poems

white whale
swallows orange dragon…
    broken kite string...

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Message in a bottle
We hear your voice, Jonah
Inside the bellly of
The white whale...

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Writing a torrent
hoping for one

Words are endemic
tide zero-sum

(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)...

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The White Whale
Atlantis
or Holy Grail

Avarice and greed
destruction
prevails

(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)...

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Have you ever drank Vulcan ale
You’ll get the runs and turn quite pale
You’ll need a bucket for your stool
And you’ll be screaming like a fool
It’s also known as a white whale...

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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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I would tell you a sea-farer's sad tale
About a captain who chased a white whale
To the depths he condemned
All but one of his men
And alas for my name isn't Ishmael

8.2.18
Sponsor: Carolyn Devonshire
Contest: Sea Tales Limericks

Gift for Lady (purple)...

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Folding in to convention
Sealed in creases of acceptance
Maligned and misled
By the false promises
Of a stolen heart 
We chase the white whale
Of validation
Into waters of denial…
  “Fury—the rallying cry
   of our vengeful spirit
   Hate—the jilted lover
   of our fated selves”

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)...

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Folding in to convention,
Sealed in creases of acceptance,
Maligned and misled
By the false promises
Of a stolen heart, 
We chase the white whale
Of validation
Into waters of denial…
  ‘Fury—the rallying cry
   of our vengeful spirit
   Hate—the jilted lover
   of our fated selves’

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)...

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The Feeling of Fishing while Floating
Is Graded on Goading, and Gloating

Bystanders oft blindly believe
In salmon the size of my sleeve

Tall Tales at the Time Told True
In Grandeur they Gained and they Grew


But my Rod and Reel won't Remember
Come the Dread and the Din of December

And by the Time I again Tell my Tale
I Will have Wrangled Ahab's White Whale

2/13/11...

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In oceans deep, the white whale sings
He seeks a mate to ease his pain
His song, it plays on our heart strings
As Moby Dick searches in vain

Such loneliness no whale can feign
For he’s the last of “great white” kings
Angry, no love can he attain
Casting hapless ships ‘neath waves’ rings




January 21, 2020
For Charlie Messina’s “Oh-No A Twisted Char-Lay Poetry Contest”...

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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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Uphill and down dale
We walk, we talk, we both frown...

But why do you look so pale
And as grey as a white whale
One that is all lost at sea

Or is it just me that I see
As rare as rare can ever be
Swimming all alone 
Never picking up the phone

I think it's sometimes you and mostly me
Why we are are both caught in the deep

So how profound as great white whales 
We can both share the crown
Without ever uttering a sound

DAMO...

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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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