And Whale Song

 

A spectrogram showing whale songs.

 

And Whale Song

 

Whale Song by name

Whale Song it came

 

By day

Seeing the whales play

By night

Still in our sight

 

Screens of unreal sound

In ocean depths abound

Real time tunes accompany our work

Records of those beneath that lurk

 

Smooth tones fill the wheelhouse

Rather listen to nothing else…

80 miles off Dampier

Hardly any whales out here

 

Whales inshore

But shipping galore

Droning out our cetacean tones

With mechanical drones

 

An ocean full of noise

Indicates man’s toys

Oil and gas for life

Often causing strife

Realism necessary

As oz desires autonomy

 

Enveloped by whale calls of young and old

Of the timid and the bold

Calls to learn

Hearts that yearn

 

Frog tones

Indigestion groans

Love-sick moans

Across oceanic zones

 

Songs of love

With news from above

A sentinel at land-mark stands

Singing migration commands

This way girls…

Over canyons sound curls

 

I’m yours –

Simply because

I’m 40 tons of love

Breaching from above

To win you over

I’m your Casanova!

 

(Written by Micheline Jenner)

 

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