Pod of big ones moaning
Out now 2 hours
Settled in course
Between coast and
Three islands
only marginal wind.
Sam rubs his eyes
From all the watching
For humpback.
Suddenly a grey hillock
Emerges from the brine.
One large eye checking
Us out with benevolence.
Wake jumping ship
From his rear end
Sam going nuts now.
I lock in our speed.
Then a second, third and fourth.
Spume going everywhere.
Communal moanings
Transfixed.
But not those holy sounds
As when deep down.
And Leviathan meets his God.
About this poem
Whale watching while out for fish in Pacific.
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Submitted by dougb.72572 on April 28, 2024
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 477 |
Words | 97 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 7 |
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