The Whale Cafe

Gold cherry

By lavadis

Thu, 05 Apr 2018
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This is the cafe in the park

where the whales come for breakfast, 

between the hours of 8 and 9.45am.

It is waitresss service only and each whale has a favourite table.

 

Throughout the year, whatever the weather,
the gardeners sculpt and plant the sea bed 
and sometimes 
they sing in harmony with the mottled light 
which dances on the skin 
of the air bubbles 
as they contort upwards 
in perpetuity 
 
The whales are not big conversationalists.
They prefer to sit in 
silence,
punctuated by the 
rattle and hum of bone china 
and the sea swoon swoosh
as their giant tails 
obfuscate far into 
the silken vermillion 
 
This is a place for contemplation 
which has been unchanged 
for a hundred thousand generations.
It is a place of silent thunder  
where the vestigial fronds
of sentience are born.
It is a place we can never inhabit, or own 
but if it dies
we die. 
 
 
Certificate U
Poem
Poetry
Fantasy

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Submitted by Ewan on

to be speechless at your own poem, but I am too.

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Submitted by Nolan on

BOLD

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

if we gave double cherries, I'm fairly sure you'd get them for this wonderful poem. Thank you for posting it

 

Submitted by The Other Terre... on

The Whale Cafe has just opened round the corner from where I work - think it's a different whale cafe though (http://www.unicen.cam.ac.uk/food-and-drink/places-eat/out-university-cen...) 

 

Submitted by Ewan on

this is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.

Why not share or retweet if you like it too?

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Submitted by Canonette on

How lovely.

 

Submitted by Alice Hamilton on

This is absolutely beautiful. Sorry - I have to use an adverb! 

 

Submitted by Ewan on

 you? There used to be one in my signature.

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Submitted by Philip Sidney on

A complete delight!

Submitted by Di_Hard on

I will want to read this again and again in future years, I think