Joyful, noble people of the Dolphin race;
smiling tears flashing over old Neptune’s face;
super-egos shining on the dark blue Id;
neon minds that man’s fathomless blindness hid
in ink clouds of ignorance from greeds giant squid.
Like sibyls, with seeing sound, they scan their sea;
with clicks, detect more than man’s dim eyes can see
and yet, so blindly and so marvelously;
try to befriend shark hearted humanity;
leviathan of slaughter and slavery.
What a powerful fluke* a dolphin heart must be,
to make it save those undeserving beasts that drown the sea.
*Dolphin tail
Comments
Silver Spun Sand | January 7, 2011 - 14:12
I like this, very much. These lines, especially:-
"Like sibyls, with seeing sound, they scan their sea;
with clicks, detect more than man’s dim eyes can see
and yet, so blindly and so marvelously;
try to befriend shark hearted humanity;"
Strange, but it would seem we both have dolphins on our mind, this rainy afternoon...at least it is here;-)
Tina
well-wisher | January 8, 2011 - 12:19
Thank you, Tina. It's not one of my better poems but I felt very moved, at the time I wrote it, by a documentary about a group of dolphins that encircled a human family and protected them from a shark attack. I just thought, "How nice of Dolphins to care about and protect us humans when we've treated them so appallingly".