Joyful,noble people

By well-wisher

Fri, 07 Jan 2011
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Joyful, noble people of the Dolphin race;
smiling tears flashing over old Neptune’s face;
super-egos shining on the dark blue Id;
neon minds that man’s fathomless blindness hid
in ink clouds of ignorance from greeds giant squid.

Like sibyls, with seeing sound, they scan their sea;
with clicks, detect more than man’s dim eyes can see
and yet, so blindly and so marvelously;
try to befriend shark hearted humanity;
leviathan of slaughter and slavery.

What a powerful fluke* a dolphin heart must be,
to make it save those undeserving beasts that drown the sea.

*Dolphin tail

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Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on
I like this, very much. These lines, especially:- "Like sibyls, with seeing sound, they scan their sea; with clicks, detect more than man’s dim eyes can see and yet, so blindly and so marvelously; try to befriend shark hearted humanity;" Strange, but it would seem we both have dolphins on our mind, this rainy afternoon...at least it is here;-) Tina

 

Submitted by well-wisher on
Thank you, Tina. It's not one of my better poems but I felt very moved, at the time I wrote it, by a documentary about a group of dolphins that encircled a human family and protected them from a shark attack. I just thought, "How nice of Dolphins to care about and protect us humans when we've treated them so appallingly".

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

JoHn