Whale's Song..
'Cross briney leagues,
breached froth and foam.
This ancient sea,
by depths,unknown.
Scarred flukes,ascending,
clothed in thunder.
Crashing waves,
hull torn asunder.
Who's masted tall ship's
gauntlet ran.
"Seize the day!"
Leviathan...
breached froth and foam.
This ancient sea,
by depths,unknown.
Scarred flukes,ascending,
clothed in thunder.
Crashing waves,
hull torn asunder.
Who's masted tall ship's
gauntlet ran.
"Seize the day!"
Leviathan...
Labels: fuck 'em up, whales, whaling
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8 Comments:
Everything feels so piratey today. Is that just me? This is wonderful by the by - you write? No? Some famous dead person? No? Hmmmm...
Vangie-It's not just you kid,I was struck by the coincidence me'self Argghh!
I wrote this late last night,under the influence of a bottle o' rum. :)
Arrgh! Blast me to smitheeerrreeens that thar is good...:-)
Wonderful imagery right from the start! Smashing poem Sling. Who wrote it?
Leviathan is a Biblical sea monster- representing forces of chaos. Clever reference to him on the last line- the whale as leviathan. Also his 'scarred flukes'- the whales tail- poor thing.
Funny how we both wrote about the sea and tall ships- hope you saw the first video on my post about life on board. Strangely enough they did not video the ship in a storm with someone up a 40ft mast-lol
My mother's family came from Caithness, Scotland- had a fishing fleet. Would have lived through the boom of the Herring fisheries.
Wish l could go back in time to go fishing with them. :)
Bests
love when you get all creative on us!
Moby Sling?
you've inspired me
let's sail to japan and attack those feckin whalers!!
grish-Thanks Matey!
Horizon-I'm happy the imagery stuck.I wanted to tell about an encounter in which the whale came out on top.You're correct about the word "leviathan",I borrowed it from the Old Testament book of "Job"..One of my favorites.
citymouse-In truth,I was moved to poetry by the recent posts of a few blog buddies,..yourself included. :)
charlie-...the great white blogger!. ;)
ruby rocks-I'm with ya buddy!..Right after my nap I mean..
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