the big fish
when i visit the whale
he is alone somewhere off
the cold pacific coast
singing a playfully melancholy
refrain across a 1000 miles
he eyes me with utter disdain
yes whales can (or he could)
disdain with the best of them
“doubting again are we?” he booms
inside my head & beyond the galaxy
i wish i have a witty reply
but he knows everything
that’s deep inside me, so i
simply sigh & smile whereupon
he takes me on his back
& reminds me how to fly
Read this and laughed. Read it to my partner and we laughed more. Read it a third time out loud. My favorite line “he eyes me with utter disdain.” 🙂
haha thanks. when I read the prompt I went “oh man, if I have any good dreams I’ve usually used them in a poem already” but then I remembered this funny old one from 20 years ago. it was as if the dear old whale was helping me out again. 😀
how are you tracking? I’ve just through the pre-dawn hours here in oz & it was pretty slow hard work.