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The Whale and Herring Pond

Herring Pairing

by Annette Herring, AKA JaneEsp

I swim
With him.
He
Is in the sea
With me.
Other herring
Within hearing
Get jealous --
Fishy fellas.

(Editor's note: What can I say? Genius. Sheer genius. And to think it was written by a fish!)

A Herring's Life

by Mr. Johnson [a herring]

We swim the northern seas

As easy as a breeze.

Our school's okay

From day to day,

Just like a pod for peas.

(Editor's note: Some critics may say that the Johnson work lacks the depth and nuance of the whale poetry here. I, however, feel that it sings. I have persuaded the webmaster to rename this page The Whale and Herring Poetry Page, to accommodate submissions by this illustrious species.)

NetSpeak

by frandamady

It's kewl,

as a rewl.

(Editor's note: Another thought-provoking work by our resident humpback whale, the acknowleged King of Whale Poetry.)

The Malicious Whale
OR
The Wicked Whale of the Deep

by Mal/Maxsonjam

Aha! I spy a boat.
Whoosh, Whoosh!
A human target which will float
atop my spout.
    Whoosh, Whoosh, tee hee.
I dive, I soar, again I dive.
Will those humans be alive
ere I dive again?
    Whoosh, Whoosh
There they sit all safe they think,
When soon they will be in the drink.
    Ha, Ha. Whoosh, Whoosh!

O spout send forth thy glorious spray!
O rise and lift that vessel high,
Lift it high into the sky.

Then stop.

I dive again

Alas, alack one more boat is lost at sea,
And I, I lie on my back saying tee, hee, hee.

From Glenda the Good Whale

by Glenda/Maxsonjam

You've probably met my cousin of the east,
He is not nice, not in the least.

He enjoys whooshing humans just for fun,
Then letting them drown as he looks on.

Unlucky for him that I float nearby.
I see all his escapades by and by.

I also like those human beings,
Weird though they are and no good at swimming.

O, climb upon my barnacled back.
I'll whisk you home in no time flat.

Then after leaving you near the land,
Away I'll swim,
until the next humans
My cousin does strand.

Whoosh, Whoosh.
Whoosh, Whoosh.

We whales have fun whooshing the deep,
It's only my cousin who is such a creep
as to whoosh you humans into the sea.

But be careful, cause you won't know which whale it may be
Whose frolicking near you in that deep sea.

Loud Thoughts

by Shamoo

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEyyyyyyyoooooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuu
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE yyyyyyyyoooooooooooouuu
EeeeeeerRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo
UUUUUUUUUUUUUrrrrrrrrrrrEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

(Editor's Note: Good heavens!)

Whaley Thoughts

by Shamoo

eeeeeeeeeeee rrrrrrrrrrrrrooooooooo
eeeeeeeyy eaaaaaaaaaarooooo

aerrooooooooooooooooooo

(Editor's Note: Another fine example of the MadForKrill school of poetry and fish. MadForKrill's simple "Eeeyoo" became "Eree Eroo" in Drummond's work, and here undergoes further complex transmogrification into "aerroo".)

banawalr

by frandamady

banawalr laatsafaan

ycantgassaf ynatwaan

yakyak

A Whale's Lament

by Arthur Drummond

Mrmmmmm Mrmmmmmm
Erooooooo Mfffffff
Mlmmmmmmmm Mlmbbb
Ereeeeeeeeee Erooooooo
blllmmmmmm Eeeeeeeeeeeee
Mrmmmmmmmmmm...

(Editor's Note: Notice the lack of punctuation in the poem above. This is a distinguishing characteristic in the poetry of some whale species.)

Eeeyoo, Eeeyoo, Yuk, Yuk, Yuk

by MadForKrill

Eeeyoo, Eeeyoo, Yuk, Yuk, Yuk.

The People Pond

Untitled

by The Pierro Family

Grey Leviathan,

Mammal of the deepest sea,

Sing your plaintive songs.

(Editor's note: A moving haiku from The Pierro Family, high-wire artists and poets all!)

Abstract

by A. Nonny. Moose

Call me Ishmael,
And I'll deck ye.
For that's not me name,
Ye son of a barnacle.

(Editor's note: This rollicking seafaring romp was sent to us by Theater Gypsy, A. Nonny. Moose's literary agent.)

Wow! What a Sight

by samantha .h.

Wow! What a sight

A whale in flight

As it ducks and dives

Trying to stay alive

A harpoon goes flying

No whale is dieing

The whalers returned to port

They were caught

Just as I thought

There was a hearing in court

They were booked and fined

Now I can rest my mind.

(Editor's note: As we all know, whales, donkeys, and elephants are protected by law.)

A Whale of a Poem

by Joan SONglaze

A whale of a whale has a whale of a tail

And needs to live in a whale of a pail.

He eats his plankton bale after bale

While waiting around for lots of E-Mail.

(Editor's note: Note the mention of E-Mail. Is this a sly, disguised reference to MadForKrill, who is still waiting for a postcard from Moby Dick?)

Swimming...

by John Aage Nilsen

Swimming in the sea

smarter than you and me

a mammal from the deep

castaway from a saucer fleet

(Editor's Note: Weighty speculation on the origin of whales.)

Untitled

by Steph Rawlings

Giant of the sea,

Peaceful, gentle, beautiful,

On God's blue ocean.

(Editor's Note: Reverse a Word cognoscente will recognize that the lovely poem above is in haiku form.)

Paradise Lost

by Milton [No last name given]

There Leviathan,

Hugest of all living creatures, in the deep

Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims,

And seems a moving land; and at his gills

Draws in, and at his breath spouts out a sea.

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Last revised: 01/25/06