Sea Whale Poems

     long days and nights upon this blue
 my best attempts to speak with you
and still my studies can’t construe
 the...

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Sing us a song oh giant of the deep,
an ancient refrain to hear in our sleep,
let no man silence you and your kin,
if contemplated would...

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You said that I should see a whale -
a giant from the southern seas
swimming song-lines up the coast, 
and so I came on board your...

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Some way from the Firth of Forth
A shoal of glittering mackerel
Swirls and sways 
Swells with the sea from silver to black 
Flashes white and back...

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Through the front Mr. Jonah was swallowed.
In the sea monster’s belly he wallowed.
In the muck and the gas
unhygienic, alas,
was the back door expulsion that followed....

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She came up from the deepest depths of the Indian Sea.
Feeling summoned by a spirit that was wild, zany and free.
A clipper ship was on...

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Freedom 

I can go outside. 
I can go inside. 
I can climb a mountain, 
or swim in the sea. 

Freedom. 

I am free....

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Pandora's Equation
 
The box was beautiful. 
It held everything ugly in one place. 
It was meant to be a prison, 
to create safety on the...

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Fisherman's Luck 

The rocks brushed by the waves, 
caressed and embraced by the ocean, 
slowly wearing down the land, 
to be carried away in pieces
back...

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sea lions crying loud 
       orcas don’t sleep very much ~
        ...

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The highlight of my Alaskan vacation was a singular
unexpected breach of a humpback whale.

           ...

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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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Ten-thousand deep-sea divers standing on me
  
  ~ Twenty-thousand legs under the sea





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Revision of a 'Speed Joke' heard within the last
month on...

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A man was swallowed by a whale
And lived to tell this humpback tale.
While lobster fishing, suddenly,
Below the waters of the sea,

He felt a bump then...

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red sky above
silver crested waves
full of seagulls
breaching dolphins
grey arches.  
...

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