This poem is inspired by Julian Day’s photo. You can see it on Paul Brookes’ blog post here.
Silence
The sun is a whale’s eye
great blue
grey as waves on the ocean sky.
Shipwrecks below
thin voices rising
do you hear, do you care?
Grey waves break
timbers splinter in silence
le silence de la mer.
You wink and dive
taking Ahabs and von Ebrennacs
beyond the broken horizon
where perhaps the gulls
will have pity
and answer their questions.
Reblogged this on The Wombwell Rainbow.
I like the whale. I imagine the gulls have better things to do. 🙂
They’d probably just carry on laughing.
Probably. 🙂
The sky and the ocean are mirrors of each other. But I agree with Merril about the gulls. (K)
Gulls really don’t care.
I think that’s true.