THE WHALE’S SONG
By enduringgift on January 22, 2012 | Category: Poem of the Week | No CommentsTHE WHALE’S SONG
They tunnel the long distance sea
Calling out each other,
Fathers crying for their children
Riding out the last century
for the grand connection.
Swollen sea horses and phantom cowboys,
Giant Chinese lanterns.
In a night sea of ghost eyes,
they love their lost children anyway.
This is the whale’s song,
The great mammalian’s cry.
Leviathans crying out for love.
Swollen lost water babies of God.
Earth Mother is gone.
The sky is bitter and bound.
We need to listen.
We are bigger than them in our dreams.
They travel the seamless seas and skies.
Ghost ships calling us to conscience
calling us back to the sea.
They sing us lullabies
that change our minds,
turning the sky into sea blankets
and rhythm riding pearl water’s familiar lunacy.
They make the unicorns visible.
They make the unicorns sing.
Their invisible belly song, found only in wild seas,
They cry the long grey memory
for lost fathering on earth,
for the dead Indian nation,
for forgotten grace,
for all the honest crawling out of shells.
Look at their eyes!
Ring and crab nebula combined.
Even on land they make us listen,
They do not let us forget
We are in the great uterus of the sea.
These whales call us out all to bring us home.
(7/12/08)
Published in This Enduring Gift, 2010
