Baleen Ballet

Cherry

By well-wisher

Wed, 13 Mar 2013
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Regally, like a queen,
the beautiful baleen
waves her tail up and down
and makes a mellow cello sound.

While, like in a ballet,
her calf, around her, plays;
he glides between her fins,
replying like a violin.

And, as if in some blissful trance,
their great, grey faces seem to smile
as they perform their loving dance,
that happy mother and her child.

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Submitted by The Walrus on
This is a lovely poem, Well-wisher, you've captured some special quality of these magnificent creatures; I love the references to musical instruments and I whaley whaley like it.

Submitted by The Walrus on
This is a lovely poem, Well-wisher, you've captured some special quality of these magnificent creatures; I love the references to musical instruments and I whaley whaley like it.

Submitted by well-wisher on
Thanks, walrus. I just thought that whales have such a beautiful way of bonding with their children and its such a lovely image of motherhood seeing a mother humpback and her child swimming together so gracefully and in synch with each other like dancers. It also makes me sad when I think how whale children were forced to watch their mothers be killed by whalers, how traumatic that must be to an intelligent creature like a humpback whale. Very glad that you enjoyed my poem and thankyou, cherrypickers.

Oh look, a link. I wonder where it leads.

JoHn

Submitted by scratch on
The assonance within the last line of stanza one made me sit up and really take notice well-wisher. Suddenly I was reading something that I knew was going from strength to strength. The loose rhyme to mirror that picked line that follows was wonderfully concieved, particularly; "While, like in a ballet, her calf, around her, plays; he glides between her fins, replying like a violin." That really is very very good indeed. Thanks for sharing a beautiful, well thought out and expertly crafted poem.

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

beautiful