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Ten little soldier boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine. Nine little soldier boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight. Eight little soldier boys traveling in Devon; One said he’d stay there and then there were seven. Seven little soldier boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in halves and then there were six. Six little soldier boys playing with a hive; A bumble bee stung one and then there were five. Five little soldier boys going in for law; One got in chancery and then there were four. Four little soldier boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three. Three little soldier boys walking in the zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two. Two little soldier boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one. One little soldier boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there was none.
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Feb 4, 2021
Feb 4, 2021 at 1:45 PM UTC
Ten little soldier boys
THERE is a wolf in me ... fangs pointed for tearing gashes ... a red tongue for raw meat ... and the hot lapping of blood-I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go. There is a fox in me ... a silver-gray fox ... I sniff and guess ... I pick things out of the wind and air ... I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers ... I circle and loop and double-cross. There is a hog in me ... a snout and a belly ... a machinery for eating and grunting ... a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun-I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go. There is a fish in me ... I know I came from saltblue water-gates ... I scurried with shoals of herring ... I blew waterspouts with porpoises ... before land was ... before the water went down ... before Noah ... before the first chapter of Genesis. There is a baboon in me ... clambering-clawed ... dog-faced ... yawping a galoot's hunger ... hairy under the armpits ... here are the hawk-eyed hankering men ... here are the blond and blue-eyed women ... here they hide curled asleep waiting ... ready to snarl and **** ... ready to sing and give milk ... waiting-I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so. There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird ... and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want ... and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes-And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness. O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart-and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where-For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and **** and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
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Wilderness
THERE is a wolf in me ... fangs pointed for tearing gashes ... a red tongue for raw meat ... and the hot lapping of blood-I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go. There is a fox in me ... a silver-gray fox ... I sniff and guess ... I pick things out of the wind and air ... I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers ... I circle and loop and double-cross. There is a hog in me ... a snout and a belly ... a machinery for eating and grunting ... a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun-I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go. There is a fish in me ... I know I came from saltblue water-gates ... I scurried with shoals of herring ... I blew waterspouts with porpoises ... before land was ... before the water went down ... before Noah ... before the first chapter of Genesis. There is a baboon in me ... clambering-clawed ... dog-faced ... yawping a galoot's hunger ... hairy under the armpits ... here are the hawk-eyed hankering men ... here are the blond and blue-eyed women ... here they hide curled asleep waiting ... ready to snarl and **** ... ready to sing and give milk ... waiting-I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so. There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird ... and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want ... and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes-And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness. O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart-and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where-For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and **** and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
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In the drawer were folded fine batiste slips embroidered with scrolls and posies, edged with handmade lace too good for her to wear. Daily she put on shmattehs fit only to wash the car or the windows, rags that had never been pretty even when new: somewhere such dresses are sold only to women without money to waste on themselves, on pleasure, to women who hate their bodies, to women whose lives close on them. Such dresses come bleached by tears, packed in salt like herring. Yet she put the good things away for the good day that must surely come, when promises would open like tulips their satin cups for her to drink the sweet sacramental wine of fulfillment. The story shone in her as through tinted glass, how the mother gave up and did without and was in the end crowned with what? scallions? crowned queen of the dead place in the heart where old dreams whistle on bone flutes where run-over pets are forgotten, where lost stockings go? In the coffin she was beautiful not because of the undertaker's garish cosmetics but because that face at eighty was still her face at eighteen peering over the drab long dress of poverty, clutching a book. Where did you read your dreams, Mother? Because her expression softened from the pucker of disappointment, the grimace of swallowed rage, she looked a white-haired girl. The anger turned inward, the anger turned inward, where could it go except to make pain? It flowed into me with her milk. Her anger annealed me. I was dipped into the cauldron of boiling rage and rose a warrior and a witch but still vulnerable there where she held me. She could always wound me for she knew the secret places. She could always touch me for she knew the pressure points of pleasure and pain. Our minds were woven together. I gave her presents and she hid them away, wrapped in plastic. Too good, she said, too good. I'm saving them. So after her death I sort them, the ugly things that were sufficient for every day and the pretty things for which no day of hers was ever good enough.
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May 9, 2018
May 9, 2018 at 6:24 PM UTC
Marge Piercy's "Putting the good things away"
In the drawer were folded fine batiste slips embroidered with scrolls and posies, edged with handmade lace too good for her to wear. Daily she put on shmattehs fit only to wash the car or the windows, rags that had never been pretty even when new: somewhere such dresses are sold only to women without money to waste on themselves, on pleasure, to women who hate their bodies, to women whose lives close on them. Such dresses come bleached by tears, packed in salt like herring. Yet she put the good things away for the good day that must surely come, when promises would open like tulips their satin cups for her to drink the sweet sacramental wine of fulfillment. The story shone in her as through tinted glass, how the mother gave up and did without and was in the end crowned with what? scallions? crowned queen of the dead place in the heart where old dreams whistle on bone flutes where run-over pets are forgotten, where lost stockings go? In the coffin she was beautiful not because of the undertaker's garish cosmetics but because that face at eighty was still her face at eighteen peering over the drab long dress of poverty, clutching a book. Where did you read your dreams, Mother? Because her expression softened from the pucker of disappointment, the grimace of swallowed rage, she looked a white-haired girl. The anger turned inward, the anger turned inward, where could it go except to make pain? It flowed into me with her milk. Her anger annealed me. I was dipped into the cauldron of boiling rage and rose a warrior and a witch but still vulnerable there where she held me. She could always wound me for she knew the secret places. She could always touch me for she knew the pressure points of pleasure and pain. Our minds were woven together. I gave her presents and she hid them away, wrapped in plastic. Too good, she said, too good. I'm saving them. So after her death I sort them, the ugly things that were sufficient for every day and the pretty things for which no day of hers was ever good enough.
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My heathen greeting for I am old now Wildfowl whispered on marshland like maidens around burning fires, The Norse winds breathing in my soul ‘Odin doth call’ Blood is the sweat of this iron sword; proud are war smiths I watch the coal biter musing in blood damp earth, Before a fire and smoke of tallow he dreams of war Fill these horns to brim, for I shall drink to Odin’s law And eat I this meal of bread oyster and mussel shell I see heavens stained blood red clouds as we cross the rainbow crystal bridge,  we shall enter Valhalla victorious once more, Lo shall they bleed at shores blooded by iron the Saxons fall, Raged fires shall consume their roof as thunder of north comes forth You call us ****** that which pierces dark shadows, We blow our horn in assembly before Odin warriors of the north Settings suns shone red as quiet falls, serene I see Valhalla the goat and mead hall, roasting beef and herring I no longer fear drowning suns for the Valkyries sweet song I do hear Freyja shall breathe my new reign at dawn   The old wars are over but our fight shall ne’er end, ─ Lo I see my father ASPAR (Arnay Rumens)  © 2013
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Dec 29, 2014
Dec 29, 2014 at 7:40 AM UTC
My Heathen Greeting
Elephants are contagious! Be careful how you tread. An Elephant that's been trodden on Should be confined to bed! Leopards are contagious too. Be careful tiny tots. They don't give you a temperature But lots and lots - of spots. The Herring is a lucky fish From all disease inured. Should he be ill when caught at sea; Immediately - he's cured!
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Contagion
Girl, you're already A walking genocide. Armed with your  favorite prescription and all the reasons why you wanna escape the inside With a bomb strapped and wire tapped to your heart beat to the only constant of grace that you stepped out of in the stutters you gait Steady your impulses girl you don't need another slip-up some emotional trigger Blowing you  out of proportion out of your body  The one you were  never comfortable with From what you saw should be beauty the red herring of reality distortion the magazines the billboards the Goddess abortion
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Oct 9, 2013
Oct 9, 2013 at 3:02 PM UTC
Walking Genocide
Welcome Back To This, Your Isle The rabbits beneath the deck, Even the pesky deer who eat the shrubbery, Sea creatures, living and spirits of the dead, Lying on the paths and in the creeks of Silver Beach, All inquire: Was it better wherever you went? Were the: Bears, hiding in the forests outside Berlin, Eagles, double headed, of Russia Herring, fried, creamed, wined, From the vendors on the docks of Helsinki, Riga, Visby and Tallinn, Salmon, smoked and cured in Stockholm, More impressive, Tastier than our striped bass, Island cohorts of yours, who waited patiently For their chronicler to return? Did the Little Mermaid and her Dolphin Guardians of the Port of Copenhagen Welcome you more warmly than your friends, The ospreys, lizards, turtles and owls Who overwatch your steps and safety When hiking in Mashomack Preserve? Are the interlacing tidal creeks, Woodlands, fields, salt marshes and the ragged, Irregular but charmed coastline of this cherished island Any lesser than those of Scandinavia? Are the sea-going ferries that transverse the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland, More poetic than the Menantic or the Lt. Joe, Who carry you swiftly home to us? The National Geographic people say that in Tivoli Gardens, The Amerikaner (ha!) waffle ice cream cone Is one of the ten best in the world. Guessing they have not made it yet to the Tuck Shop for some Moose Tracks! Were you unaware that our isle settled before Peter the Great ever envisioned creating the grand Boulevards of his capitol, St. Petersburg, Route 114 was a traveled forest path, By settlers and Indians, not serfs. Of the Treasures, the Gold Room of the Hermitage, The Amber Room of Catherine's Palace, Wrote not a single word, we observe. Your attentions, they did not deserve? The answers all, self evident. Here, surrounded by the gentle breezes of Long Island Sound and Gardiners Bay, Sweet and salty flavors of the Peconic atmosphere, Words unlocked, from your eyes to the page fall, Smudged by joyous tears, for the muses of the island Have embraced you yet again and rebirthed Inspiration, within their comforting, sheltering grasp. Silver Beach July 22, 2012
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Aug 3, 2013
Aug 3, 2013 at 4:50 PM UTC
Welcome Back To This, Your Isle
Welcome Back To This, Your Isle The rabbits beneath the deck, Even the pesky deer who eat the shrubbery, Sea creatures, living and spirits of the dead, Lying on the paths and in the creeks of Silver Beach, All inquire: Was it better wherever you went? Were the: Bears, hiding in the forests outside Berlin, Eagles, double headed, of Russia Herring, fried, creamed, wined, From the vendors on the docks of Helsinki, Riga, Visby and Tallinn, Salmon, smoked and cured in Stockholm, More impressive, Tastier than our striped bass, Island cohorts of yours, who waited patiently For their chronicler to return? Did the Little Mermaid and her Dolphin Guardians of the Port of Copenhagen Welcome you more warmly than your friends, The ospreys, lizards, turtles and owls Who overwatch your steps and safety When hiking in Mashomack Preserve? Are the interlacing tidal creeks, Woodlands, fields, salt marshes and the ragged, Irregular but charmed coastline of this cherished island Any lesser than those of Scandinavia? Are the sea-going ferries that transverse the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland, More poetic than the Menantic or the Lt. Joe, Who carry you swiftly home to us? The National Geographic people say that in Tivoli Gardens, The Amerikaner (ha!) waffle ice cream cone Is one of the ten best in the world. Guessing they have not made it yet to the Tuck Shop for some Moose Tracks! Were you unaware that our isle settled before Peter the Great ever envisioned creating the grand Boulevards of his capitol, St. Petersburg, Route 114 was a traveled forest path, By settlers and Indians, not serfs. Of the Treasures, the Gold Room of the Hermitage, The Amber Room of Catherine's Palace, Wrote not a single word, we observe. Your attentions, they did not deserve? The answers all, self evident. Here, surrounded by the gentle breezes of Long Island Sound and Gardiners Bay, Sweet and salty flavors of the Peconic atmosphere, Words unlocked, from your eyes to the page fall, Smudged by joyous tears, for the muses of the island Have embraced you yet again and rebirthed Inspiration, within their comforting, sheltering grasp. Silver Beach July 22, 2012
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She was made of Pearls *Her skin a delicate graft of Sapphire Soul sophisticated emeralds A most valuable treasure in the world He lit a fire in her heart Bright flames Burning bright Enough to burn galaxies And reduce mountains to ash A passion so masochistic A desire so strong Obsessive It consumed her Yet* She was made of Pearls *And all he wanted was To dig treasure And so he did Carved the delicate sapphires from her skin Where deep Scars remain Like giant pebbles in a river Stole the precious emeralds from her soul As he broke her heart with his soft spoken lies Yet* She was made of Pearls *And he got none He was a red herring Which soon drifted away She thrifted in the Pain of love A black fantasy, a black hole That punched a void in her chest And rendered her heart stale Yet* She was made of Pearls *And the pearls fell in her tears And weaved down all the oceans Until she was no more Now he looks for her pearls In the oysters of the oceans More valuable than* Her
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May 13, 2017
May 13, 2017 at 4:28 PM UTC
She was made of Pearls
YOU waves, though you dance by my feet like children at play, Though you glow and you glance, though you purr and you dart; In the Junes that were warmer than these are, the waves were more gay, When I was a boy with never a crack in my heart. The herring are not in the tides as they were of old; My sorrow! for many a creak gave the creel in the-cart That carried the take to Sligo town to be sold, When I was a boy with never a crack in my heart. And ah, you proud maiden, you are not so fair when his oar Is heard on the water, as they were, the proud and apart, Who paced in the eve by the nets on the pebbly shore, When I was a boy with never a crack in my heart.
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The Meditation Of The Old Fisherman
. *… and the look of fear co-existing with pain      on a contorted face that knows it is in mortal difficulty, as ragged fingers      clutch,           clutch, at a fire they cannot reach, ripping agonies react,      to an enforced cardiac episode, as blackness closes in gravity heaves its hardest, but the fall is fake, a red herring in the event,      and the weight of the world presses down, searching, retracts waiting, presses down, searching, retracts waiting, as breath is given freedom in exhalation to the light,      that slowly rolls back the pitch hue of the void, returning back images, feeling, a new belief,           and the fire inside quietens,                     and the fire inside quietens, to the intense glow      of a burnt aching heart.* © Pagan Paul (2018)
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Jun 14, 2019
Jun 14, 2019 at 5:45 AM UTC
Fire Inside
A Pickle is Many Things A Kosher Dill, A Gherkin You can Pickle Beets and You can pickle pigs feet Pickles for Bread and Butter Sweet Pickles Canned by Mother Pickled Herring can be found or Pickled Eggs that are so round A Pickle's a fine thing to be But...don't get yourself in a Pickle All the Work here is licensed under the Name ®SilverSilkenTongue and the © Property of J.Flack
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Mar 22, 2015
Mar 22, 2015 at 11:42 AM UTC
Pickle
HelloPoetry Blessed us all , no matter where we live. I am truly Blessed by each and everyone alike here. There are so many here on this here site that I am thankful for. Sally Bayan, Mike Hauser, Iamdaisie, Olivia Kent, Wendy Ronshausen,Brandon Nagley, Earl Jane, Rachel Sia Jane Lloyd, Lydia Monet,Neil Aranda, Mark Cleavenger, Ann Marie Johnson, Melanie Wilson-Herring, Mike Essig,  **** Paz Its Gonna Make Sense. PrttyBrd, Vicki Bashor, Kripi Mehra, Willyam Pax, Poetess Bhumi, Kelly Rose. Elizabeth Burnettge, Toni Pugh, Paul Champman, David Lewis Paget. Ryn, Sean Scibbles, Aurelia, Kim Johanna Baker,Yasaman Johari. Lady RF,Crazy Diamond Kristy, Weeping Willow, Alyssa Underwood. MydstopiA,adhi das, South by southwest, Petal, soulsurvivor. reformdancerecover,Ashly Kocher, Mack, Travler, Randolph Wilson. Plus many more whom are very special indeed whom did not make this poem love you all in Christ.
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Apr 19, 2017
Apr 19, 2017 at 2:03 PM UTC
HelloPoetry
moving inland far away from the coast temptation doth bring deeper in land the head seems consumed by everything nearing the coast it's the heart that sings though inland, my love, you will find me away from the bogs or the shoals o' herring holding you at bay with ***** keeping me next to me wanting tomorrow to be the better day my mind, an island for tromping shores different from desert sands when the tide of your concern reprimands on this island the shells are smaller and there are no dollars,   the sea, a shrunken plastic expanse of syringes and lip balm containers, soft fluid-filled bodies turned into sopping brown-bag skeletons, revenges of modern life. there is a rivulet further up shore do you feel it? follow the inlet wind near a candescent pond there is a house open the door if you fall in a home can be found.
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Jan 12, 2017
Jan 12, 2017 at 1:37 AM UTC
inland heart
I Know a Jew fish crier down on Maxwell Street with a voice like a north wind blowing over corn stubble in January. He dangles herring before prospective customers evincing a joy identical with that of Pavlowa dancing. His face is that of a man terribly glad to be selling fish, terribly glad that God made fish, and customers to whom he may call his wares, from a pushcart.
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Fish Crier
Priti Patel's quote on EU migration - whatever it was... list of common surnames: cropper, cross, crouch, dabney, dalton, daniels, eads, easton, eccleston, fairclough, farnham, fay, gardner, garey, garfield, haight, hanes, hailey, ibbott, irvin, isaacson, jack, jackson, jacobs, kay, keen, kelsey, lacey, lacy, lamar, macey, mann, marchand, neal, nelson, neville... sure pati japati patel - i'll be an albino in Gujarat if your play the sitar in a sari; but your name sounds a bit migrant revealing, what a weird 'back of the bus' you seem to stand on - you want the Mongolians resurrected? i swear we were being ousted in line of what Queen Sheba said to Solomon: 'olive skinned throughout the geography and the unwelcome green men on sponged-knickers creaming for an ****** a french dessert...' yes pretty prior, you found home on a continent when half of the european nations didn't practice colonial antics - i guess it's easier to pick on them. but with a Patel surname you sound british already, the great experiment worked the anaesthetic of former colonialism numbed via recreational Ketamine use really numbed the skull and jaw mandibles - i hate, i hate being conscripted into post-colonial affairs of "why it all failed" what a waste of the urban hubs of Manchester or Liverpool - where once artistic expression thrived - i hate these post-colonial societies, it's as if they were castrated en masse, and they're wondering why no one has a permanent suntan in scandinavia - maybe the raw herring diet - cinnamon up your *** magician's trick with space between fudge of digestion, disappearing trick but then the cough that blinds you sweetly - i guess post-colonial nationalism wanted to listen to non-colonial nationalism - a former migrant like pretty plated smell olive skinned exploited inversion of angers but dunked a footstep into a trip-up with non-colonial nations - a bit like the greek bail-out - pretty patel is a name least likely associated with migration; you teasing the beast out?
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Apr 21, 2016
Apr 21, 2016 at 9:33 PM UTC
hey pretty plated smell!
Priti Patel's quote on EU migration - whatever it was... list of common surnames: cropper, cross, crouch, dabney, dalton, daniels, eads, easton, eccleston, fairclough, farnham, fay, gardner, garey, garfield, haight, hanes, hailey, ibbott, irvin, isaacson, jack, jackson, jacobs, kay, keen, kelsey, lacey, lacy, lamar, macey, mann, marchand, neal, nelson, neville... sure pati japati patel - i'll be an albino in Gujarat if your play the sitar in a sari; but your name sounds a bit migrant revealing, what a weird 'back of the bus' you seem to stand on - you want the Mongolians resurrected? i swear we were being ousted in line of what Queen Sheba said to Solomon: 'olive skinned throughout the geography and the unwelcome green men on sponged-knickers creaming for an ****** a french dessert...' yes pretty prior, you found home on a continent when half of the european nations didn't practice colonial antics - i guess it's easier to pick on them. but with a Patel surname you sound british already, the great experiment worked the anaesthetic of former colonialism numbed via recreational Ketamine use really numbed the skull and jaw mandibles - i hate, i hate being conscripted into post-colonial affairs of "why it all failed" what a waste of the urban hubs of Manchester or Liverpool - where once artistic expression thrived - i hate these post-colonial societies, it's as if they were castrated en masse, and they're wondering why no one has a permanent suntan in scandinavia - maybe the raw herring diet - cinnamon up your *** magician's trick with space between fudge of digestion, disappearing trick but then the cough that blinds you sweetly - i guess post-colonial nationalism wanted to listen to non-colonial nationalism - a former migrant like pretty plated smell olive skinned exploited inversion of angers but dunked a footstep into a trip-up with non-colonial nations - a bit like the greek bail-out - pretty patel is a name least likely associated with migration; you teasing the beast out?
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Between autumn's offerings And spring's wings, Our winter lights are everything. Crisp sky nights string tinsel streams, And crystal air heils winter's dreams. Poplar trees that snowed in summer Are treasures held in winter's slumber. Bare branches reach in silhouette For crowning stars where none now sit. Here dreams of flight and fancy thrill Shimmering eyes on a gift-wrapped hill. Shorelines once rubbed with reeds, Are splashed by our moonlight beads. Knolls wrapped in wreaths of herring bone, Like sirens call us from our home. Stars held in place by poplar fingers Ring our ponds like carolling singers. There nestled by framed winter scenes, Our winter lights glitter red and green. These lights that through our window stream, Bring to mind warm Christmas dreams
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Dec 19, 2015
Dec 19, 2015 at 1:46 PM UTC
Winter Lights
As the blue moon climbs over the Potomac River, I lay my tired body down next to the planted field. Momma tells me that I’ll turn 13 tomorrow; my birthday wish….to be free Like brail, the scars on my back speak to the humility in my life. My dog Jip lays beside me and with a warm tongue conveys everything will be fine. It’s the early fall here at Georgetown University My name is Cornelius, Cornelius Hawkins and I write these words so you know my plight. Here with me are my father, mother and 2 yr old sister. We toil the field from dawn to dusk…the salt herring and cornmeal give us strength. And my hands are forever clinging to this rosary and I pray God will hear my prayers. I can’t begin to tell how afraid I am each and every day. I try not to dwell on our strife and struggles, but day dream of downright happiness. My family and our ancestors before us have been confined to slavery for 200 years. Momma always says “There is no slavery, just ignorance”. I hold her words near and dear to my heart and I never give up hope for a better life.
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Apr 20, 2016
Apr 20, 2016 at 2:08 PM UTC
A Slave Named Cornelius
The giant fin whale swam along with the tide A nineteen-foot calf was swimming by her side They were swimming away from her mate’s now dead shell Trapped in a lagoon and then all shot to hell. She’ll raise her young calf on her own from now on Not mating again as they only take one Her mate had followed a herring shoal in with the tide And for a short while there were those who had tried To help him turn and head back to sea But the cruelty of nature would not let it be At eighty feet long and a shallow cliff lea It could not turn around to escape and be free. And then a vile streak in the locals took hold A most wicked shooting match began to unfold The most handsome of whales was trapped and revealed As shooters took aim and young children squealed. They fired and they fired and they fired and they fired Stopping only to reload and then when they got tired They even drove speedboats across his shot back Leaving deep deep prop cuts as a further attack. And when they were done and the whale was no more His body burst open and in death he’d now score For the stench of his now rancid corpse was so rotten This beautiful creature wasn’t easily forgotten. There was a man who tried hard to get him free But one man alone is as a wood with one tree And by the time he had got national press all aware The whale was now dead, so bored, they’d not now care. ©Joe Wilson – A Whale shouldn’t die like that 2014 Many years ago I was enthralled by the work of Farley Mowat the renowned Canadian environmentalist who died last month. From reading his book, based on real events ‘A Whale for the Killing’ published in 1972, I took to studying whales as a hobby and I quickly realised just what a perfect creature the Fin Whale is. It is the only whale that is match coloured along both sides giving it the same symmetrical beauty as a dolphin and is the second largest creature to live, the Blue Whale being the only creature bigger. It is so amazing it can lift its entire body out of the water. Why on earth would you fire thousands of rounds of ammunition into a creature so beautiful? Why? This is a small tribute to the memory of Farley Mowat (May 12, 1921 – May 6, 2014) and to people like him who try so hard, such as the Sea Shepherds who try to stop the massacre of bottle-nose dolphins each year in Taiji, Japan ostensibly for food, even though most Japanese people shun the whale-meat.
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Jun 1, 2014
Jun 1, 2014 at 6:57 PM UTC
A Whale shouldn't die like that
The giant fin whale swam along with the tide A nineteen-foot calf was swimming by her side They were swimming away from her mate’s now dead shell Trapped in a lagoon and then all shot to hell. She’ll raise her young calf on her own from now on Not mating again as they only take one Her mate had followed a herring shoal in with the tide And for a short while there were those who had tried To help him turn and head back to sea But the cruelty of nature would not let it be At eighty feet long and a shallow cliff lea It could not turn around to escape and be free. And then a vile streak in the locals took hold A most wicked shooting match began to unfold The most handsome of whales was trapped and revealed As shooters took aim and young children squealed. They fired and they fired and they fired and they fired Stopping only to reload and then when they got tired They even drove speedboats across his shot back Leaving deep deep prop cuts as a further attack. And when they were done and the whale was no more His body burst open and in death he’d now score For the stench of his now rancid corpse was so rotten This beautiful creature wasn’t easily forgotten. There was a man who tried hard to get him free But one man alone is as a wood with one tree And by the time he had got national press all aware The whale was now dead, so bored, they’d not now care. ©Joe Wilson – A Whale shouldn’t die like that 2014 Many years ago I was enthralled by the work of Farley Mowat the renowned Canadian environmentalist who died last month. From reading his book, based on real events ‘A Whale for the Killing’ published in 1972, I took to studying whales as a hobby and I quickly realised just what a perfect creature the Fin Whale is. It is the only whale that is match coloured along both sides giving it the same symmetrical beauty as a dolphin and is the second largest creature to live, the Blue Whale being the only creature bigger. It is so amazing it can lift its entire body out of the water. Why on earth would you fire thousands of rounds of ammunition into a creature so beautiful? Why? This is a small tribute to the memory of Farley Mowat (May 12, 1921 – May 6, 2014) and to people like him who try so hard, such as the Sea Shepherds who try to stop the massacre of bottle-nose dolphins each year in Taiji, Japan ostensibly for food, even though most Japanese people shun the whale-meat.
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In the distance a Bright Blue eye blinks with greed at the enticing tickle, of a seemingly fickle, wisp of eclectic lightning. Torn out of actuality, the sky's emboldened hue, makes way for this wistful energy of new. As the bolt of light, not really caring, rips the sky of Blue, like a Blood-red Herring, dives viciously, however not maliciously, into-- Transition now your mind to a darkness not unkind. Where silence is a splendor and your entire being is a sensor. Where gravity takes rest and gasping lungs aren't always best; a blanket of muffled harmonies vibrating soundlessly inside your bones, flesh and arteries-- FLASH* ... Like a birth, like a death-- like the pause between your breaths-- for a moment, just for an echo of a glimpse of a moment, the flash of silver blue, that out of darkness quickly grew, pierced-- with exacting delicacy-- the bottom of this darkened sea, then disappeared instantly... Flash-flash {{Glow}} Flash-flash {{Glow}} {{...Glow-glow...}} fa d e... ... Where the bolt did land-- on the sea-floor sand-- a beating rock, electric blue from the shock.. {{...Glow-glow...}} fa d e... {{...Glow-glow...}} fa d e... And in that instant, new life was made... While on the surface nothingness reigned... {{...Glow-glow...}} fa d e... {{...Glow-glow...}} fa d e... It's a cosmic dance, disguised as chance-- Or lucky breaks that breed romance-- And to move along its endless song, without blind views of right or wrong, Is to truly feel with unbiased zeal The uniting pulse of the Universe.
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Apr 30, 2010
Apr 30, 2010 at 1:16 AM UTC
Lightning Under A Blue Sea
In the distance a Bright Blue eye blinks with greed at the enticing tickle, of a seemingly fickle, wisp of eclectic lightning. Torn out of actuality, the sky's emboldened hue, makes way for this wistful energy of new. As the bolt of light, not really caring, rips the sky of Blue, like a Blood-red Herring, dives viciously, however not maliciously, into-- Transition now your mind to a darkness not unkind. Where silence is a splendor and your entire being is a sensor. Where gravity takes rest and gasping lungs aren't always best; a blanket of muffled harmonies vibrating soundlessly inside your bones, flesh and arteries-- FLASH* ... Like a birth, like a death-- like the pause between your breaths-- for a moment, just for an echo of a glimpse of a moment, the flash of silver blue, that out of darkness quickly grew, pierced-- with exacting delicacy-- the bottom of this darkened sea, then disappeared instantly... Flash-flash {{Glow}} Flash-flash {{Glow}} {{...Glow-glow...}} fa d e... ... Where the bolt did land-- on the sea-floor sand-- a beating rock, electric blue from the shock.. {{...Glow-glow...}} fa d e... {{...Glow-glow...}} fa d e... And in that instant, new life was made... While on the surface nothingness reigned... {{...Glow-glow...}} fa d e... {{...Glow-glow...}} fa d e... It's a cosmic dance, disguised as chance-- Or lucky breaks that breed romance-- And to move along its endless song, without blind views of right or wrong, Is to truly feel with unbiased zeal The uniting pulse of the Universe.
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Death waits beyond the gates and stuck on pikes or up on spikes,the heads of malefactors. Eyes ****** out by greedy beaks and tongues torn by the laughing winds,ears that hear no rivers flow or travellers as they go to and fro across the bridge. Skulduggery and thuggery hand in hand the outlaw land across the Thames,tarts and carts and herring bones and fish wives heading off to homes beyond the liberty,where lawlessness is more or less the way things are, and a penny a *** of gin is a lot but for twopence you get one free, the ribald are eyeballed and marked as fair game and as the fayre starts up on the ice, everyone gets a slice of the quince as the fey boys mince down on mincing lane and head to the borough to join in the game. London by nature and London by name and someone to scrub the bloodstains from the hands of those who hang loose in the outlaw lands.
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Feb 6, 2014
Feb 6, 2014 at 3:55 AM UTC
Treasures
not mine Ten little Indian Boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine. Nine little Indian Boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight. Eight little Indian Boys travelling in Devon; One said he'd stay there and then there were seven. Seven little Indian Boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in halves and then there were six. Six little Indian Boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five. Five little Indian Boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four. Four little Indian Boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three. Three little Indian Boys walking in the zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two. Two little Indian Boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one. One little Indian Boy left all alone; He went out and hanged himself and then there were none.
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Feb 3, 2015
Feb 3, 2015 at 3:25 PM UTC
And then there were none
Questions asked— Answers evaded Questions asked— Churlish responses Questions asked— Reality revised Questions asked— Dangerous denials Questions asked— Squeaky clean! Questions asked— RED HERRING!!! Questions asked— Deny FBI Questions asked— AD HOMINEM!!! Questions asked— Boast, repost Questions asked— Uncivil snivel Questions asked— Snide asides A question asked: Where are we? Scary judiciary? End times? Revolution? Not in this Kansas.
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Sep 28, 2018
Sep 28, 2018 at 1:49 AM UTC
LESS THAN “D" MR. K
I am not the sophisticated underdog, I trip and fall through door frames Always unannounced. I am the wavering circle, I give myself away too early in the game Always a red herring.
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Mar 29, 2014
Mar 29, 2014 at 9:10 PM UTC
Cluedo
‘t was nice till now. I’d be a sad fool to complain. There are others that deal with much more **** then I can ever imagine. There are happy homeless chums that don’t give a **** about sadness but, unfortunately, their madness is voiceless and, sadly, our ears get numb after 3-4 minutes of elevator music. It was cool and everything but now it seems that you’re only showing the back of your head, as you’re kneeling down in front of everybody. No spine. No dime. No nothing. Death lies hidden in your breast pocket, just waiting to bite your hand or that of your loved ones, in a blink of a blind eye. My inner black dog chased away the black and white cats and all that jazz is just not enough for a healthy restart of the brain membrane. Get closer and hear me out. I’m speaking through my heart – this yellow bellow fella’s almost done. I’ll whisper and you’ll understand my stubbornness, like an unlit candle in the wind, like a simple quiet rocket/piano man, like the unlikely event of crashing in a brick wall. ‘t was nice. All the dreaming and drinking and smiling and crying and cringing inside my head. Oooooooh, what a match! The crowd goes wild and that’s so unlike them to do – clawless, fangless, white tigers. You might not recognize this day as being amazing and wonderful and all, but trust me when I say that you’re in a blind spot right now and as soon as it will be over, you’ll see it. You’ll understand. Those were not drops of desperation but exquisite fine wine left unattended. Hear the echo inside this caveman’s body. Look in this broken mirror and admit that you cannot see the eyes. This generation of morons will stay put and eat macarons all day long. It’s just a burning house, as Robin nicely put it in his song. There is still hope for this silly antelope. There is time for the timeless universe that we live in. You’ll eventually get tired of seeing everything backwards, of going against the stream, like a red herring in a Quentin T. dark alley. You’ll get tired and admit that you’re the ******* queen of everything wrong in this world. Stop complaining. Get over it. For now.
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May 18, 2016
May 18, 2016 at 7:58 AM UTC
Black dogs and white tigers
‘t was nice till now. I’d be a sad fool to complain. There are others that deal with much more **** then I can ever imagine. There are happy homeless chums that don’t give a **** about sadness but, unfortunately, their madness is voiceless and, sadly, our ears get numb after 3-4 minutes of elevator music. It was cool and everything but now it seems that you’re only showing the back of your head, as you’re kneeling down in front of everybody. No spine. No dime. No nothing. Death lies hidden in your breast pocket, just waiting to bite your hand or that of your loved ones, in a blink of a blind eye. My inner black dog chased away the black and white cats and all that jazz is just not enough for a healthy restart of the brain membrane. Get closer and hear me out. I’m speaking through my heart – this yellow bellow fella’s almost done. I’ll whisper and you’ll understand my stubbornness, like an unlit candle in the wind, like a simple quiet rocket/piano man, like the unlikely event of crashing in a brick wall. ‘t was nice. All the dreaming and drinking and smiling and crying and cringing inside my head. Oooooooh, what a match! The crowd goes wild and that’s so unlike them to do – clawless, fangless, white tigers. You might not recognize this day as being amazing and wonderful and all, but trust me when I say that you’re in a blind spot right now and as soon as it will be over, you’ll see it. You’ll understand. Those were not drops of desperation but exquisite fine wine left unattended. Hear the echo inside this caveman’s body. Look in this broken mirror and admit that you cannot see the eyes. This generation of morons will stay put and eat macarons all day long. It’s just a burning house, as Robin nicely put it in his song. There is still hope for this silly antelope. There is time for the timeless universe that we live in. You’ll eventually get tired of seeing everything backwards, of going against the stream, like a red herring in a Quentin T. dark alley. You’ll get tired and admit that you’re the ******* queen of everything wrong in this world. Stop complaining. Get over it. For now.
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